Farewell to Maradona, from Naples to Argentina

“I grew up in a private neighborhood in Buenos Aires. Deprived of electricity, water, telephone ”he said one good day Maradona. A sentence, between irony and genius, in which Diego spoke and left his humble past latent. The people's footballer. A guy from the streets. And it was in the same in which this Wednesday, when his death was known, he received the spontaneous tribute of many people for whom more than a soccer player was a god. Since Naples until Argentina, places where MaradonaFor what he did with the ball, he transcended far beyond the borders of the ball.

As soon as the news was known, those who somehow felt orphaned by the march of '10' filled the streets of countless populations of the albiceleste country singing Rodrigo's 'The Hand of God'.

Special was what Buenos Aires, and the rest of Argentine cities, with traffic panels in which it was possible to read ‘Thanks Diego', Street sweepers dropping the broom to blurt out the famous' Marado-Marado' as examples of the extent to which Maradona's death splashed reality on November 25.

Diego Maradona Stadium

If shocking was what Argentina, much less fell short in that sense what happened in Naples, city in which the Maradona soccer lived its apogee. Flares and firecrackers lit by hundreds of ‘tifosi’ who took to the streets to say goodbye to their god. Luigi di Magistris, mayor of the city, even confirmed that the San Paolo stadium will be renamed Diego Maradona, responding to the request of many in this regard.

‘El Diego’ is leaving, but nothing and no one dies as long as he is remembered where he lived, and Maradona it is unforgettable.