The best footballer of all time, who died on November 25, 2020, spent around five years in Cubawhere he arrived in 2000 to enter a rehabilitation clinic for the addictions that, at the beginning of that same year, had put him on the verge of death in east end, Uruguay.
Two days after his arrival he was visited by the Cuban president, Fidel Castrowith whom Diego He struck up an unconditional friendship. “Commander, this is very easy to get into and very difficult to get out of.”, explained the “Ten” to Fidel. The affection transcended the relationship between the two and since then Maradona received love from all Cuba.
It was reciprocal: “Fidel, if I have learned anything with you over the years of sincere and beautiful friendship, it is that loyalty is priceless”he wrote Diego in a letter in 2015.
“Diego was better than bread, he was a man with a level of cordiality and respect for others, especially for the workers. I have rarely seen him, perhaps never, become someone who could behave like a divo taking the world ahead”counted victor hugo at the opening of the field.
The Uruguayan, who gave the best account of the best goal in World Cup history (Diego’s second against the English in Mexico 1986, “cosmic kite, what planet did you come from”), made two TV programs with Maradona: “De Zurda” and “La Mano del Diez”.
ilarreguimeanwhile, delivered a donation of balls from the Argentine Football Association (AFA) to promote the practice of this sport in children and young people from the capital’s neighborhoods.
“Diego has a lot to do with Cuba: his postures, his non-folds… Diego and Che Guevara represent a lot of Argentina in this country and that is why the reminder about him is very good, it is like a permanent representation of Argentines in Cuba and the world”he told different Cuban media.
Source: Ambito
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