Fenomenología de Maradona

Few characters have been more protagonists of their time than Diego Armando Maradona, an elite athlete from the Villa Fiorito proletariat and elevated by the masses to the category of God. Philosophers, journalists and political scientists interpret in this choral book the meaning of a phenomenon that transcended the lines that delimit the field of play and transformed the Argentine star into an object of veneration on a world scale, into a sports, political and social symbol, in the result of a spectacular process of secular apotheosis unique in its mixture of mystical idolatry and pop fanaticism. Who was Diego Armando Maradona and what did he mean? What reasons explain his triumphant and acclaimed entry into the pantheon of lay divinities? Known by all, celebrated by the majority and reviled by some because of his problematic relationship with drugs and women, Maradona is not only the icon that represents and embodies the robust national sentiment that lives on in the minds of Argentines, but also He also became an emblem of the class struggle and an inexhaustible source of hope for the most disadvantaged, who always saw him as one of their own. The book includes a text by Fernando Signorini, Maradona's historical physical trainer, and an interview with the Tunisian referee who (did not) see the hand of God.