Maradona, god dirty of human mud
The Prosecutor's Office did not hesitate to place a large part of the player's environment under suspicion, starting with his doctor and other relatives. An inordinate judicial zeal? The division of opinions on the matter remains. It seems that the Prosecutor's Office is the only one to ignore the will of self-destruction that Maradona had undertaken decades ago, indulging in toxic practices that sooner or later took their toll on him, after removing him from the playing fields. With his technique and talent, he had dazzled with an electric, singular spectacularity, different from those who had preceded him in the same planetary soccer firmament, such as Pelé, his compatriot Di Stéfano or the Dutch Cruyff, among other figures. His contribution was key to the world title won by Argentina in 1986. An award that many of his compatriots interpreted as the recovery of a national pride lost during the military dictatorship and the humiliating defeat in the Malvinas war.
Its accelerated process of vital destruction had been well evident in recent months. The testimonies coincide in pointing out that he ignored the recommendations to preserve his health. His doctor would suggest that Maradona required a hasty discharge from the hospital to return home, where he ended up dying. The latest episode of a controversial personality outside of sports.
The data that have recently emerged from the autopsy confirm the deterioration of his health to which he did not pay adequate attention. In the days before his death, he had not used drugs, but three basic organs were failing him, such as the heart, liver and kidneys. He suffered from cirrhosis of the liver, an acute tubular necrosis related to chronic kidney disease, myocardiofibrosis, subendocardial fibrosis and areas attracted by acute ischemia, serious lung disorders, as well as heart failure. His condition could hardly be more appalling.
An exciting subject for psychoanalysis, in which an important part of the Argentine population is a specialist, perhaps Maradona and his behaviors offer. He was unique as a juggler with the ball on the court, which is why he dragged crowds into the stadiums excited by his game. But at the same time, and with the passage of time, he derived his extra-sporting life into a debauchery with alcohol and drugs, a cocktail to which Medicine had little or nothing to oppose, except palliative remedies. It is known that his flirtation with excesses began in Barcelona during his time as a Barça player. Afterwards, Naples was his sports paradise. True. There he won the Seria A title twice, the Italian Cup and the UEFA Cup in the colors of the same Neapolitan club.
However, in the Italian city he also discovered the deepest well for poisoned addictions that bound him and conditioned the rest of his life. Nobody like his Uruguayan admirer and author Eduardo Galeano described this dark side of Maradona with precision, affection and insight at that time: “He is a god dirty with human clay. He is the most human of the gods and that is why many people recognize themselves in him ”.
No less eloquent would be the response that the Argentine star returned when Galeano died in 2015: "Thank you Eduardo for teaching me to read football and for scoring goals for the powerful, like a 10".
The burning chapel of Diego Armando Maradona in the Casa Rosada of the Argentine presidency, in Buenos Aires, and the three days of national mourning were the culminating display and definitive paraphernalia of a country surrendered in its goodbye. He never stopped idolizing him as a footballer while forgiving his erratic private life.
