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Hello Sadness
What else to do? On November 25, a few minutes after the official announcement of the death of Diego Maradona, these supporters of Boca Juniors took the direction of the Bombonera stadium in Buenos Aires, to mourn their idol. Here, Diego played in the 1981-1982 season, just before flying to Europe. He returned in 1995 to play his last two seasons as a pro player. That year, in March, the idol, who had become coach of the small team of Gimnasia La Plata, returned to La Bombonera to face Boca. One night’s adversary, Diego was greeted as a hero.
Switching to color
Behind these supporters in tears are displayed the colors of Boca Juniors, this yellow and this blue which went so well to the complexion of Diego… But did the latter know that these colors came from the end of the world? It was in 1907 that the so-called Juan Brichetto, leader of the club, had the idea to change the colors of Boca, which had evolved since its creation in black and white. He had just seen the arrival in the port of Buenos Aires on Drottning Sophia, a huge ship from Sweden, and had been fascinated by the colors of the flag flying on its flag.
Blues of history
Still blue, yet another sea story? If historians agree that the choice of blue was a way of expressing support for Spain and the Bourbons, faced with the threat of invasion by Napoleon, the romantics prefer to believe that General Manuel Belgrano created the Argentinian flag, in 1812, inspired by the sunset on the coasts of Paraná… Diego would obviously have preferred this last version.
Always running
Looking at this photo you will distinguish two mullet cuts, the same one that Diego assumed, with a certain panache and a certain inelegance, in the 1990s. If we do not see it as a tribute, we will see it as a pretext to recall a famous projection of Maradona, at the time when coach Daniel Passarella asked his players to cut their hair: “ he wants players to wear their hair short because it’s touching it too much. The players also touch the balls. Suddenly, he will ask them to cut them ? “ Of course, the answer never came.
Baby blues
How old is this baby, carried by his mother to the Bombonera on this day of mourning? The age to remember that the young Diego was born at the Eva Perón de Lanús hospital, in the province of Buenos Aires, in a family of Amerindian, Italian, Galician and perhaps even Croatian origins, we will learn a genealogists day. His father called himself Diego. The footballer was the fourth child in the family, but the first boy, and even before walking he already knew how to play ball. At least with the hand …
