A series of provocative, moving and illuminating interviews with (arguably) the greatest soccer player ever...
Introduction by Roger Bennett, the co-host of Peacock\'s Men in Blazers show.
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.
The book also features his reflections on his stuggles with drug addiction, the highs and low of his experience playing for Napoli, his strong views on Lionel Messi, the governance of world soccer, and his worries about the impact of Covid on the world\'s poor.
Included in the book are encounters with Pele and Gary Lineker, who Maradona played against in the 1986 England-Argentina game that sent shockwaves around the world.
The interviews collected in Diego Maradona: The Last Interv iew 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.
Vatican News called him soccer\'s poet.
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.
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.
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.
Diego Armando Maradona\'s death on November 25, 2020, at the age of 60, was a death that had been foretold many times.
A series of provocative, moving and illuminating interviews with (arguably) the greatest soccer player ever..
