Bøger af Diego Maradona

VM i Mexico, 1986. Én mand. Diego Armando Maradona.Der skal 11 fodboldspillere til at vinde en kamp. Det er en fodboldkliché. Og det er sandt. Men aldrig før eller siden har en enkelt mand været så afgørende for et verdensmesterskabs afgørelse som i 1986. Maradona var en sjældent set kombination af teknisk perfektion og sydlandsk passion for fuld udblæsning, og ved dette VM stod den geniale driblekonge på toppen af sin karriere og vandt fodboldens største trofæ til sit elskede hjemland Argentina.Maradona fortæller medrivende om den myteomspundne VM-triumf, som han nægter at tage hele æren for. Som fodboldens Che Guevara - altid på de svages side og selv vokset ud af et argentinsk slumkvarter - fremhæver han holdet, kollektivet som vinderen. Men samtidig praler og skryder han sig igennem alle de verserende rygter om korruption i UEFA, stofmisbrug, magtsyge. Og vi skal ikke være i tvivl om, at han var den bedste - bedre end Platini, bedre end Rummenigge, bedre end Zico. Og den bedste vandt!

A series of provocative, moving and illuminating interviews with the greatest soccer player ever... Diego Armando Maradona's death on November 25, 2020, at the age of 60, was a death that had been foretold many times. Even when he was alive accounts of his life had a tragic register, of the kid from the slums whose magical talent on the soccer field was squandered by drug addiction. But his death allowed millions of people to ponder both the tragedy and triumph of his life, of a man who was arguably the world's greatest soccer player, who was also a champion for the world's poor. Adorned in the talismanic number 10 shirt that Maradona made his own while playing Boca Juniors, Barcelona, Napoli and Argentina, hundreds of thousands flocked to the presidential palace in Buenos Aires to pay their last respects; millions around the world were similarly moved, creating makeshift altars and murals in his honor. Vatican News called him "soccer's poet." The interviews collected in Diego Maradona: The Last Interview span the breadth of his life and career as a player, coach, and public figure, providing a panoramic and extremely candid accounting of his rollercoaster life, many translated into English for the first time. Included in the book are encounters with Pele, Fidel Castro (who Maradona credited for saving his life) and Gary Linker, who Maradona played against in the 1986 England-Argentina game that sent shockwaves around the world. The book also includes two unforgettable interviews in the last years of his life where he both retells, in both a jocular and deeply honest and emotional way, the story of his life. Maradona: The Last Interview is a fitting tribute to a complicated and brilliant soccer player who moved the world and changed the game of soccer forever. Introduction by Roger Bennett, the co-host of Peacock's Men in Blazers show

Thirty years on from the magic of the '86 Mexico World Cup, Diego Maradona reveals, for the first time, the untold stories behind that one-of-a-kind championship.