the raid of Diego Maradona as coach of Racing it was not good. Two wins, 6 draws and 3 losses marked the brief passage of Fluff for him Cylinder of Avellaneda. The lack of results and the recent pain caused by the Elimination of Argentina in the World Cup in the United States They represented some arguments of the fans who expressed their disagreement in the stands.
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His story with Academia it is special. In 1979 it was the first time he witnessed a game on the field. To the four years his father took him to the Cylinder to affirm the love that would last forever. “We were working class and lived in the southern part of Hummock. The reality is that we went when the economy allowed us to travel by train and bus ”, he recalls nostalgically in dialogue with infobae. They were located in the popular opposite of the one where the bar was located “so as not to have problems.”
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His fanaticism not only took hold in Racingsince the feat in the Mexico World Cup, in 1986, forged an emotional bond with the hero emerged from Villa Fiorito. “When Diego signed, I worked in a toy store in my neighborhood. How am I MaradonianoI didn’t want to miss any game and with two friends and the partner I had at the time we went on vacation to Santa Teresita to see the preseason”, he recalls proudly.
On the Atlantic Coast he had his first contacts with the legend. In the mornings he accompanied the players from the hotel International to Golf to witness the training sessions and noticed that “there was a good vibe” on the part of the protagonists. “Practices didn’t start until the coach woke up”, he assures between laughs. And he confirms:Nor was he a lover of the double shift”.
During that summer of 1995 He also took the buses to attend the friendly commitments in front of Independent y River that were disputed in sea of silver and then he would return at dawn to sleep in the apartment he had rented. In his memory remains the day in which the coach went crazy and “began to throw clothes off the balcony to give them to the fans” who were keeping vigil at the academic concentration. “Pablito Ruizwho today works in marketing at the club, has a T-shirt of America TV that Diego had used, because the channel bankrolled Maradona’s contract. Eurnekián contributed a lot of money so that we could enjoy him as a coach“, reveals.
Although the cycle of Fluff in Racing reached 11 official matches, Daniel Bevilacqua maintains that he was present at all the matches of the Diez on the substitute bench. “We started with great enthusiasm on the field of Ferrobut later the illusion was lowered because We saw that the team was a disaster”, analyze from a distance. And in his arguments he regrets the reaction of the public when a remembered triumph was achieved in The Bombonera: “The idyll with Maradona ended the day from 6 to 4 against Boca. That time the fans sang about everything with many insults. I think it was a mistake, because he always spoke highly of Racing”.
A decade after that rout, the toymakeras his friends nicknamed him, began to collaborate on the property Tita Mattiussi. Those were the times of management in charge of Blanquiceleste S.A.; when the Buenos Aires entity was going through its worst financial crisis. “When I saw the kids of the Racing Stones working for the club, I joined without thinking. Since we had no tools, we removed all the stones and weeds with our hands. there was only the court 1 and we were just beginning to work on the second. Also we had to get several surgeries who were living there”, he argues.
He dedicated a lot of sacrifice to the complex where the club’s youth divisions and women’s soccer work today. He asserts with the true sense of belonging that his son began to walk there. And during those hot afternoons he met Hernan Germanoanother fan of the Academia whom today he considers as a brother. “We both had nostalgia for the old material. At that time we met Daniela D’Adamo, that was a Racing fan photojournalist thanks to the contact of Hose (one of the references of the fans). We always ask her to see her entire file, and although she had invited us to the house, since she was not in good health we were never able to go.
The photographer’s visits to the Tita they were more and more sporadic until he stopped going for good. He had passed away. With the pain caused by the loss of her friend, Daniel Bevilacqua he contacted his brother Ariel to complete that pending account. “For years we asked him for the negatives he had kept of her. He told us about the photos that we were uploading to our social networks, because we had done the same with Juan Leivawho is a photographer of the Racing Magazine from 80’s. We bought the photos he had of the stands, because we were interested in the minimal stories of the fans, ”he explains.
They were times of insistence, perseverance and a lot of patience. “Until Ariel caught up and brought us the files he had promised us.” Last week, during the last game of The Gagoneta fnext to Tiger, Drink water received a folder with almost 5,000 negatives that had belonged to her friend. “He was so excited that he didn’t even want to enter the room! Cylinder! I wanted to see all that stuff. That night I stayed with my son until 4 in the morning looking at what was there. And the first photos were those of Diego! Not know what to do. She wanted to go out and print them ”…
The next day he began the work of beginning to digitize the images of Maradona. And he assures that she will continue to reveal more in the coming days. “There is one that is a bomb, because he is on the auxiliary field and he looks very happy“, he remarked.
The next step is to make a sample together with the Fan Department and the Department of Culture of the institution in honor of Daniela Of Adam. The appointment will be at the headquarters of Miter Avenue in Avellaneda the Saturday April 15 in the afternoon (15 hours). “We want to show this material so that people know the real author and her brother, who helped a lot with all this”.
The academic fanatic still does not realize the repercussion it had on the Maradonian World. “I think it serves to vindicate Diego’s passage through Racingbecause beyond the results, he left us a great memory. In the Academia the best coaches failedbut he was an important part of the story and It fills us with pride that he has been in our club. He is the most photographed guy in history and it could not be that there were no images of him in Racing clothes ”.
He is one of the faithful followers of the most human of all gods. And that admiration that he forged during his adolescence prohibited him from having direct contact with him. Diez on two occasions. “The first time I saw him personally on the Coast, I went up to say hello and I shit myself. Not a word came out. I couldn’t even take a picture with himbecause I didn’t dare. I only took one from him. And the second was bigger, because for a long time he sold video games to soccer players. At the time of Coco Basile in Boca I was very present and became a good friend of Fernando Gago y Rodrigo Palacio. They passed my contact to Diego and one day he called me because he wanted to give something to his nephews. I remember that an adviser that I had in the Showbol and when he handed me the phone I couldn’t answer it. I didn’t dare to speak because my whole body was shaking.”.
His relationship with the best soccer player of all time was based on the images that only he managed to get. And although he regrets not having been able to give a hug to Fluffis aware that somewhere the Diez You will be happy and grateful for everything you have achieved in the last time. in every smile Maradona with the shirt of Racingthere will be the scene of the fan who revealed to the world the photos that no one had ever seen until now.
UNPUBLISHED PHOTOS OF MARADONA IN RACING
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