Athletic has been the protagonist during the last days of a good number of videos and images that have served to illustrate the trajectory of Maradona. The good name of the rojiblanco club and one of its current ambassadors, Andoni Goikoetxea, have come up to remember old episodes of painful memory. The neighborhood fight at the end of a Cup final and a very tough entry on one of the aces of the moment that helped some to de-bar, de-bar and continue to de-bar.
To those who want to see fights and ‘murderous’ tickets inside a soccer field, I recommend that they get to work via the internet. Also that they pull the newspaper library and find out that years after that entry; Goiko and Maradona, then a Sevilla player, had a coffee together in a Bilbao hotel, sealed the peace and even posed together for posterity. Hours later, the Argentine star himself acknowledged that San Mamés was one of the ‘most beautiful’ stadiums in the world.
Patxi Salinas
, another of the lions in that final cup, also keeps very special memories of a birthday of Maradona. In football, it has always been a show that “What happens on the court stays on the court”. Well that …