Diego Maradona dead: Argentina legend dies aged 60

[RogerM]

Source: Express

Football icon Diego Maradona has passed away aged 60 after suffering a cardiorespiratory arrest on Wednesday. Maradona underwent surgery earlier this month to remove a blood clot from his brain.

Read more: https://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/1364575/Diego-Maradona-dead-Argentina-football-legend-brain-surgery

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RIP Maradona

[kirkuchiyo]

1. Hand of God... nt

rip

[ornotna]

2. He didn't look very healthy for a couple of years now

Wonderful footballer, cheatin' bastard.

May he rest in peace.

[robbob]

3. Cheating? Are you talking about "the hand of god" goal?

That’s not cheating; that’s a bad goal that the refs missed. Soccer is not golf; you don’t call penalties on yourself.

[RogerM]

4. His Greatest goals in World Cups

[ornotna]

5. just because you get away with it

doesn't mean it's not cheating. Nice logic you got going there.

[sandensea]

7. True - but his second goal, just 4 minutes later, was voted by FIFA as the greatest goal of all time

[ornotna]

9. I don't discount his enormous talent

He was a great footballer, one of the best for sure.

[sandensea]

10. And very much on the progressive side in politics

Had he ever run across DU, he would've really enjoyed it (with Google translate, of course).

[robbob]

11. You're assuming that he deliberately knocked the ball in with his hand.

In the replay you can see he jumps up to make a header, but his hand is there too and the ball hits his hand. Now, given that as a talented professional soccer player he has probably made dozens of goals off his head (and was in fact perfectly set to do so there), WHY would he risk having the goal disqualified by using his hand? It is, in fact, somewhat of a miracle that the goal WASN’T disqualified, as it’s pretty clear it was his hand knocking it in.

To call him a cheater because the refs missed the call is a tad harsh and unfair. These things happen in a split second, and, as I mentioned before, in soccer you don’t call a penalty on yourself, you let the refs decide.

[ornotna]

17. It was deliberate and blatant

But you believe what you want just like I will. Hand above your head is not a natural position when attempting to head the ball.

[T_i_B]

12. Hasn't looked healthy for a couple of decades

But then he did take an awful lot of drugs

[sandensea]

6. Diminutive physically - but larger than life. And very active in progressive causes.

He considered Cheeto a 'puppet' and a 'tyrant' - which shows that despite all his struggles and eccentricities, he could still be a good judge of people.

Hasta siempre.

[greenjar_01]

8. Hand of God

(somebody beat me too it....Ingerlund doesn't forget)

[T_i_B]

13. Peter Shilton has been making his feelings known today on Twitter

Although he has been deleting the fruitier tweets

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[greenjar_01]

15. Good God!

[sandensea]

16. More than a few Argentine right-wingers are echoing those sentiments, I can tell you

Maradona, as you know, was very politically outspoken - and how they hated him for it.

The fact that he was mestizo, was prone to personal scandal, and was from a slum neighborhood (Villa Fiorito) only added to the contempt.

[Ponietz]

21. Those look fake -- declining to believe Shilton actually tweeted that stuff without confirmation

Just as I decline to believe Pope Francis liked an instagram post of a Brazilian bikini model in minimal schoolgirl clothing. It’s a ratfuck internet world now and an intelligent person should verify everything before posting. That’s just too much for those in a hurry to get their hot-take online first. SMDH

[Ron Obvious]

22. Haha! Not classy from Peter Shilton, but I completely understand where he's coming from.

I loathed the little prick too, but I'm still sorry he died so young.

[stevil]

24. Yeah, that's pretty heavy handed

Great player though (Maradona).

[Oscarthegreat]

14. The little genius

I always thought of Diego Maradona as the Charlie Parker of football(soccer). A very flawed and troubled man whose incredible genius brought so much pleasure to millions of people. He had many demons that eventually caused him to die way too young, but his heart was in the right place. Those who watched him play in his prime know how breathless and intoxicating his genius had been. RIP Diego.

[sandensea]

18. Excellent metaphor

Perhaps the best I've read thus far - or am likely to read.

[iluvtennis]

19. Rest In Peace Diego Maradona.

[SunSeeker]

20. He was born to play the beautiful game. He was never able to adjust to post-player life.

It was painful watching what happened to him over the last 20 years since he stopped professional play in 1997.

For most folks who pass away I would say rest in peace, but for Diego, I hope he has his young body back and is juking the greats on that emerald pitch in Heaven.

[burrowowl]

23. RIP

He was a great player!

[jstephenj]

25. I learned of Dr. Maradona's death by reading an article about Xuxa of all people:-/

RIP Diego Maradona.