The story of Diego Maradona

Brut America

Born in the slums of Buenos Aires, Diego Maradona's love of soccer helped him escape and become one of the greatest players of all time. Here is the story of the "golden child."

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00:00Pressure, you know who has it?

00:03The man who goes to work at 4 in the morning

00:07and can't take 100 pesos home.

00:11He has pressure.

00:14Because he has to feed his children.

00:17I don't have pressure.

00:19I have the pot full, thank God.

00:30Diego Maradona is non-stop drama.

00:38He likes chaos.

00:40Diego likes trouble.

00:42And if everything is calm and peaceful,

00:44he will create trouble.

00:46Diego came from a really bad, really tough childhood.

01:00And he came from like a poverty that you could not imagine.

01:03When he was really young, he lived in a very, very poor village.

01:06And it's a time when people didn't have toilets in their homes.

01:09You had to go outside to go to the toilet.

01:12And when he was a kid, he fell in a cesspit.

01:16A cesspit is like an outside toilet.

01:18And he nearly drowned.

01:43I don't see myself as an artist.

01:45I see myself as a footballer.

01:47A footballer who plays a little better than the others.

01:58The price is decided by the bosses.

02:00I don't know if I'm well paid or not.

02:02But if you ask Maradona,

02:04he will tell you that he is worth much more than 14 billion lire.

02:07He took a team that had never won anything

02:10and he won the toughest league championship in the world at the time.

02:36So Diego Maradona is the best footballer in the world.

02:39He is the best footballer of all time.

02:41No matter what you've heard or seen,

02:43he's the best football player of all time.

02:45He had the most dramatic life.

02:47He won the World Cup.

02:49Pretty much, he was the best player of a bad team.

02:51He won it on his own.

03:09The first time, when I took cocaine,

03:11I was suspended.

03:13It's very good.

03:15I made a mistake.

03:17I didn't say the opposite.

03:19But the second time,

03:21I think it's deeply unfair.

03:23Totally unfair.

03:25Because the ephedrine,

03:27it does nothing.

03:39The best footballer of all time

03:41won the World Cup

03:43with a team that had never won anything.

03:45Diego Maradona is the best footballer of all time.

03:47He won it on his own.

03:49Totally unfair.

03:51The first time,

03:53I think it's deeply unfair.

03:55Totally unfair.

03:57The second time,

03:59I think it's deeply unfair.

04:01The third time,

04:03I think it's deeply unfair.

04:05The fourth time,

04:07I think it's deeply unfair.

04:09I'm not a god.

04:11I'm just a simple player.

04:13I'm just a simple player.

04:23You have to realize

04:25that you can make mistakes.

04:27You can make mistakes.

04:29You can make a lot of mistakes.

04:31You can make a lot of mistakes.

04:33You can make a heart

04:35with a little hole.

04:37You can make a heart with a little hole.

04:39I think that little hole

04:41is going to be tremendous

04:43through time.

04:45I think

04:47my heart

04:49is going to be

04:51in sync.

04:53My heart,

04:55my mind,

04:57my soul.

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05:31Long live the one who hasn't earned it.

05:46This film that Mir makes

05:50has all the ingredients

05:53to know who Maradona is, who Diego is.

06:01The film is dedicated to all the people who made it possible.

06:06Talking about Maradona is like talking about Pope Pius, I don't know.

06:21How do I take care of myself?

06:23I make love.

06:27I have the same desire.

06:29I always have the same desire.

06:31The people who hired me trust me to apply my principles.

06:34I've had a lot of setbacks in my life.

07:02Today I'm 57 years old.

07:05I assume this responsibility

07:10as someone who has a son in his arms.

07:32Diego's life is a series of cycles of death and resurrection.

07:36He dies, he's the failure, everyone thinks it's all over,

07:39and then he comes back, he's great, he's going to win again, he's brilliant.

07:42And then it goes wrong and he dies again.

07:44So his whole story is one cycle from very young.

07:48Everyone thinks he's finished and then he will come back.

07:51I just want to be Maradona.

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