RIP Diego Maradona 1960-2020 💔

Never Forget
đŸ‡ŠđŸ‡· Diego Maradona's achievements:

🏆 World Cup Winner
🏆 4x Footballer Of The Year
🏆 UEFA Cup Winner
🏆 Italian Cup Winner
🏆 2x Italian Champion
🏆 Italian Super Cup Winner
🏆 Spanish Cup Winner
🏆 Spanish Super Cup Winner
🏆 Spanish League Cup Winner
"To me, playing football gave me a unique peace." - Maradona
"Life is life. When God decides it is time, I guess he'll come for us." - Maradona
"If I was in a white dress at a wedding and a muddy ball arrived...I would stop it from the chest without thinking about it." - Maradona
“Diego, for all Argentinians, is God. And he always will be” - Carlos Tevez
”Even if I played for a million years, I’d never come close to Maradona. Not that I’d want to anyway. He’s the greatest there’s ever been.” - Lionel Messi
"I saw Maradona do things that God himself would doubt were possible." - Zico
“For Maradona to win a World Cup on his own, and let’s face it, that’s what he did as the rest of the team were ordinary, was an amazing achievement. He was the best player I’ve seen” - Glenn Hoddle
"What Zidane could do with a ball, Maradona could do with an orange.” - Michel Platini
“The best player I’ve seen in my life. He did things that didn’t seem humanly possible. He decided matches alone, carrying average teams like Napoli and Argentina to glorious achievements. A genius.” - Marcel Desailly
"A genius, a real artist, one of the greatest players in the world. He could win a match on his own. On his own." - Sir Bobby Robson
"The best player there has ever been, better than Pele. I watched him closely in Italy every week and he was at a different level to everyone else. Some of the things he did were unbelievable. He could control the ball without looking." - Ruud Gullit
"There will never be anyone like Maradona again, not even if Messi wins three World Cups in succession." - Hector Enrique
"Some say Pele was the greatest player of all time, but not me. Maradona will always be the greatest." - Eric Cantona
"Beyond everyone else, no ball ever had a better experience than when it was at his left foot." - Jorge Valdano
"Maradona is a God to the people of Naples. Maradona changed history. We always fought relegation but with him we won two leagues, a UEFA Cup, two Italian Cups." - Fabio Cannavaro
"Certainly one day we'll kick a football together in the sky above." - Pelé
A little anecdote that sums up Maradona's sheer status.

Before the 1990 World Cup opener, some of the Cameroonian players started crying when they saw him in the tunnel, because they just couldn't believe they were on the same pitch as him.
A wonderful clip of Gary Lineker meeting up with Diego Maradona in 2006. Watch till the end.
The goal that made our childhood 😍

Forever in our hearts ❀
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