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Diego Armando Maradona was an Argentine professional football player and manager. Widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of the sport, he was one of the two joint winners of the FIFA Player of the 20th Century award
Inherent within Diego Armando Maradona's nickname of El Pibe de Oro (golden boy/kid) is a sense of mischief impossible to translate verbatim. The pibe is a classic anti-establishment rogue, street smart, and full of guile.
Maradona’s capacity to elevate may be the purest type of genius. He was raised in extreme poverty in a shantytown outside Buenos Aires and became a drug addict with deep connections to the mafia. There’s no way of truly understanding the alchemy of these ingredients, and it is impossible to replicate in other contexts. But in sport, at least, we have seen nothing like it before or since.
Rest In Peace.