Buenos Aires: Thanks Diego, a young man screams with pain, takes off the Boca Juniors shirt and throws it in front of the coffin that rests in the Casa Rosada, where a sea of ??the town parades today to say goodbye to Maradona, Prensa Latina publishes.
The spontaneous action has been repeated since past six in the morning by many of the thousands of people who line up in the Plaza de Mayo to say goodbye to the great D10S, to the Diego of the people, to a man who changed history of Latin American soccer.
After a farewell of his most intimate circle that lasted throughout the morning, with the presence of his ex-wife Claudia Villafañe with their daughters Dalma and Giannina, the funeral ceremony in the Hall of Original Peoples, the same place where 10 years ago the people said goodbye to former president Néstor Kirchner, it moves a people that resists an unexpected death.
On the outskirts, in the long line that borders the Plaza de Mayo, Maradona’s face is multiplied on the shirts, and also in a large drawing on the flagstones of the historic Plaza, a symbol of resistance.
A huge flag of Argentina, and two shirts, the one he wore with Boca Juniors and the one for the national team, dress the coffin with Maradona’s body. Between the ‘Olé Olé Ole, Diego’, and the silence that at times takes over the place, the pain becomes even stronger for this farewell.
In an intimate way, before the doors were opened to the public, there were former footballers and world champions Oscar Ruggeri, Nery Pumpido, Ricardo Giusti and Oscar Garré, those who together with Diego gave everything on the field for that unforgettable victory in Mexico 86.
He was also honored by the president of the Argentine Football Association Claudio Tapia, the head of the Professional League Marcelo Tinelli and the Boca Juniors players Carlos Tévez and Ramón Abila, the ex-footballer Rolando Schiavi, Javier Mascherano, Gabriel Heinze, Maxi Rodríguez, Mariano Andújar and Daniel Osvaldo.
Today the doors of the Casa Rosada will be open until four in the afternoon at the request of Diego’s relatives and it is expected that at least one million Argentines will parade.
By Redacción digital
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