Maradona: rebel genius
The clichés about Diego Maradona being the “half-devil, half-angel” of world football deliberately overlook his passionate, anti-imperialist politics, writes Mark Brown.
Diego Armando Maradona, who died in November aged 60, was an icon of the late-20th and early-21st centuries. A kid from Villa Fiorito — a desperately impoverished shantytown in the Buenos Aires province of Argentina — he rose to become the greatest footballer of his generation, perhaps of any generation.