Off Topic Maradona documentary film...

Thanks but it wasn't specific to that incident. It was a noun that was well known in Argentina, think it emerged from 'street football' and I'm sure it began with a v

 

Enzo Francescoli for Uruguay - he was class.

 

Viveza criolla
Native cunning

 

If Diego Maradona was as good as Jay Jay, I'm Mary ****ing Poppins

 

We didn't see too many from Jay Jay when he was here unfortunately.

 

It was good of him to come though, yeah

 

It's probably time to take your broomstick in for servicing

 

I knew that was coming

 

Although, wasn't it an Umbrella?

 

That's it.

Nice one.



"Much of the perception about Maradona is a western unease towards his anti-establishment ways and his idea of chaos.
I guess, I have always had more of an affinity to kind of anti-establishment characters. Maybe somewhere underneath is hidden, is the fact that I've felt like a bit of an outsider. So, for me these are my heroes, and I want them to be on the big screen. I want people to see them for what they really were and hopefully empathize with them, particularly with Diego. He doesn’t have a great rep. I just want to go back to a particular moment in time that formed him that I don’t think people know and haven't seen because it wasn’t shown on TV.

A neutral's reaction to Maradona has largely been based on their own conditioning, upbringing and values. In his homeland, most of his excesses were accepted as a street cunning, the famed viveza criolla. "

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Dunno ? Was somewhere on the Yellowbrick Road is all I recall

 

Thought that was the brand of crayons Ehab prefers ?

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Actually came across as a nice bloke, who was taken to the cleaners, by the Napoli mafia and the club president who saw him as a cash-cow.

 

Yes and Peter Shilton still spits feathers and thinks he's a cheating little ****. I know, I've had that conversation with him. Maradona was a superb player, yes possibly the best ever, but that one incident defines him in many people's minds, however unfairly.

Sounds like this might be worth watching though, especially if it's done by the same person who did Senna, which was brilliant.

 

Argentina is a superb place to visit and people there are friendly, despite Les Malvinas. Buenos Aires is basically a European city and Argentina is a melting pot of Spanish, Italian, French and British cultures. I was talking to a very attractive blonde Argentinian tour guide a few years ago, who spoke better accentless English than me (not hard) and she had the following comments when I asked her how come her English was faultless. She said each family respects their roots and many maintain their home-country language at home. Not sure how widespread that still is but this was only 10 years ago. Her family happened to be British descent. She also said the following to sum up Argentinians: Argentinians work like the Spanish, dress like the Italians, eat like the French and wish they were British, lmao.

 

Senna is an incredible film, and in many ways better than the Maradona film. Kapadia’s film about Amy Winehouse is also superb.

 

The age-old story: poor boy gets given magic powers, finds wealth and fame beyond his dreams, then the bad stuff starts. Not a happy ending,

Like George Best, there was little or no protection for a young lad ill-equipped for the intense fame and scrutiny his talent attracted,

Thankfully things have changed.

As Maradona's personal fitness trainer says :"For Diego I'd go the ends of the Earth, for Maradona I wouldn't walk one step"

 

For all we bleat about the handball - and I was incandescent at the time - his second goal deserved to win any game.

 

Voted best ever goal scored. Even better than Deano's volley.