Maradona And The Anger That Built A Legend

Diego Maradona grew up in Fiorito, a slum on the edge of Buenos Aires where eight children shared a room two metres squared and the family carried oil cans to the only tap in the street. From the dirt he found one thing he would not let go of, the ball, and he made a decision early that he would be the one to change everything for the people he loved. When the 1978 World Cup squad left him out at seventeen, something hardened in him. He found a word for it, bronca, the burning anger that he turned into fuel, and he learned he played his best football when he was chasing revenge. This episode traces the whole story. The move to Napoli and what he meant to a city the rest of Italy looked down on. The 1986 quarter final against England four years after the Falklands, two goals four minutes apart, one with his fist and one that FIFA voted the greatest ever scored. And then the slow undoing, the years he carried something he called a cancer he was dragging around with him. It sits alongside the other Legends stories of obsession and cost, the same engine that drove Kobe and Tiger, anger and need shaped into something the world had never seen. Maradona just paid for it in his own way. This is a man who was taken from nothing and kicked to the top of the world, and who wore the same trousers the whole way up. 🎙️ Full episode on YouTube & Spotify #Maradona #Football #WorldCup #Napoli #Legends