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00:00:00The end of the day
00:00:29The end of the day
00:00:59The end of the day
00:01:29The end of the day
00:02:00To the 60,000 fans here with us today
00:02:04And to the 1 billion international viewers around the world
00:02:09The United States of America
00:02:12Warmly welcomes you to World Cup USA 1994
00:02:18Up until that time the U.S. had been frankly a disaster on the world football scene
00:02:41Basically the World Cup and international football was Europe and South America
00:02:46The rest of the world basically didn't exist in their sphere
00:02:51Europeans were apoplectic as soon as the announcement was made
00:02:55How could this possibly go to the United States?
00:02:59They're basically sports barbarians
00:03:01They know nothing about the game
00:03:03They absolutely cannot host a World Cup
00:03:07They don't know what to do
00:03:08It was pretty unbridled criticism right from the get-go
00:03:11I was convinced that when it comes to a big event
00:03:21The Americans will be there
00:03:23Because they like big events
00:03:25And they like big stars
00:03:27And this was behind the idea
00:03:31To bring this world cup
00:03:34We were the first time that they had a serious opening ceremony
00:03:45Everything we were doing was showing FIFA and the world
00:03:48That basically how to do a big event
00:03:51You know, don't just open the stadium doors
00:03:53And welcome the people
00:03:55And send the players out of the field
00:03:56But really create all that hoopla, if you will
00:03:59Ladies and gentlemen
00:04:04A carnival of countries celebrates
00:04:06As World Cup USA
00:04:08Proudly presents
00:04:10The Parade of Nations
00:04:12We welcome first Argentina
00:04:29The Parade of Nations
00:04:30The Parade of Nations
00:04:31The Parade of Nations
00:04:32The Parade of Nations
00:04:33The Parade of Nations
00:04:34The Parade of Nations
00:04:35The Parade of Nations
00:04:37Llega a cable
00:04:38Donde dice
00:04:39Que un importante deportista
00:04:42Va a ser detenido en el barrio de Caballito
00:04:45Por tenencia de droga
00:04:49Germán era el chofer de él
00:04:55Germán sale volando
00:04:57Y llega tarde
00:04:59Llega la policía
00:05:04Diego Maradona
00:05:06Es él
00:05:07Es Diego
00:05:08No se puede llegar
00:05:10Hasta Diego
00:05:11Estábamos en el hotel Amán
00:05:15De Zurich
00:05:16Y Daniel prende la televisión
00:05:18Y cuando prende la televisión
00:05:20Pero increíble
00:05:22La imagen de Diego
00:05:24Saliendo de esa casa
00:05:25En caballito
00:05:26Estaba la policía
00:05:27Estaba en los medios
00:05:28Estaba la radio
00:05:29Estaba en los diarios
00:05:30Estaba el que vendía pancho
00:05:31Estaba el que vendía gaseosa
00:05:32Todo el mundo
00:05:33Había 300 personas afuera
00:05:34Que habían encontrado Diego
00:05:46Con dos o tres amigos
00:05:47Y algunas chicas
00:05:48No sé
00:05:49Como no recuerdo bien
00:05:50Y que lo habían detenido
00:05:51Porque lo habían encontrado
00:05:53Drogado
00:05:55Que había droga
00:05:57Y me entero que Diego
00:06:01Estaba preso
00:06:03Entonces
00:06:05Me dirigí a la comisaría
00:06:07Y ahí lo vi
00:06:08Estaba en ese momento
00:06:10En un mal estado
00:06:11¿Cuándo usted tendría
00:06:12Alguna referencia concreta
00:06:13Entonces
00:06:14¿De qué pasa con Maradona?
00:06:16No me lo digan acá
00:06:18Usted va a esperar que lo llame
00:06:19No va a tratar de seguir
00:06:20Indagando información
00:06:21Aparentemente
00:06:22Hasta tanto sepan acá
00:06:23Qué es lo que va a pasar
00:06:24Lo que sí recuerdo
00:06:26Como anécdota
00:06:27Que
00:06:29En su tránsito de vuelta
00:06:31Hasta la celda
00:06:33Que tendría
00:06:34Los demás detenidos
00:06:35Le cantaban
00:06:37Lo cual me
00:06:38Produjo gracia
00:06:40En ese momento
00:06:41En ese momento
00:06:42En ese momento
00:06:43En ese momento
00:06:44Lo cual me
00:06:45Produjo gracia
00:06:46¿No?
00:06:52El caso Maradona
00:06:53Futbolista detenido
00:06:54Por presunto consumo
00:06:55Y tenencia de drogas
00:06:56Ha conmovido
00:06:57A toda Argentina
00:06:58Mientras el ídolo
00:06:59Era trasladado
00:07:00Hacia los tribunales
00:07:01Para ser interrogado
00:07:02Por segunda vez
00:07:03En menos de 24 horas
00:07:04El propio presidente Menem
00:07:06Se ha declarado
00:07:07Conmovido
00:07:08Por la noticia
00:07:09Disgraced soccer star
00:07:11Diogo Maradona
00:07:12Is now in hiding
00:07:13After being hit
00:07:14With a 15 month
00:07:16Worldwide suspension
00:07:17For using cocaine
00:07:18The career
00:07:19Of one of the all time
00:07:20Greats
00:07:21Is all but over
00:07:22Maradona
00:07:36I loved him
00:07:37I was in love
00:07:39With him
00:07:40I really wanted
00:07:42The best of him
00:07:43I was with him
00:07:45I was with him
00:07:46Mentally
00:07:47I said
00:07:48This Maradona
00:07:49He must survive
00:07:50He must be there
00:07:51He must come back
00:07:56He wanted to play football
00:07:57Again
00:07:58Then
00:07:59The next big step
00:08:00Was then
00:08:01The World Cup
00:08:02In 94
00:08:06And the Americans
00:08:07They like stars
00:08:08And they wanted to have stars
00:08:11And he was one of the stars
00:08:14And this is my responsibility
00:08:16To take him there
00:08:18To take him there
00:08:19But really
00:08:20I wanted to have him
00:08:21As a human being
00:08:22But also as a star
00:08:24To show the earth
00:08:25In football
00:08:26In the United States
00:08:27We have a star
00:08:29And so I was instrumental
00:08:33For this transfer
00:08:35To Sevilla
00:08:36And I wanted to do
00:08:38And I wanted to have a
00:08:40New York City
00:08:41That is
00:08:43The idea
00:08:44Of such a year
00:08:45The idea
00:08:46Of Fichar a Maradona
00:08:47Apart from
00:08:48The Blatter
00:08:49FIFA
00:08:50They had the idea
00:08:51Of that he could be the icon
00:08:52Of the United States
00:08:53The New World
00:08:54Of the USA
00:08:55Carlos Salvador Vilardo
00:08:57Ex seleccionador
00:08:59Argentina
00:09:00And
00:09:01Sevilla
00:09:02and he proposed to Luis Cuerva, who was the president of Sevilla,
00:09:05the possibility to incorporate a Diego Maradona.
00:09:10He heard that it could be a possibility,
00:09:13but we didn't think that it was real until Bilardo,
00:09:16in a certain moment,
00:09:17joins us in a hotel room and tells us that Diego Armando will come.
00:09:22Maradona was a very special person,
00:09:25I don't talk about anything else, but very special,
00:09:28and that we had to help him
00:09:31to be the one who had been,
00:09:33because that was positive in the team.
00:09:42The Maradona was the internationalization
00:09:48of the Sevilla Football Club.
00:09:49Diego was a media star,
00:09:52as well as a football star.
00:09:54And where Diego was,
00:09:56the media of communication started,
00:09:58because the whole world was aware of what he did.
00:10:08The Sevilla was aware of the problems
00:10:10that Diego Maradona had with drugs,
00:10:12but in life,
00:10:14there was always a second opportunity
00:10:16to the one who was wrong.
00:10:18And the Sevilla believed in that,
00:10:21through our club,
00:10:23Diego could again
00:10:25incorporating it into the orderly living
00:10:28and in great levels.
00:10:32What advice was that you were to do
00:10:33with the football club in the world?
00:10:34What advice was that you could do
00:10:35with the football club?
00:10:36The national anthem of the football club.
00:10:38MADODOJIMA PANADONIA, POR MADOJIMA MADODOJIMA.
00:10:41MADODOJIMA PEOPLE CANDO EN MI OPAÇÓN, CELILLA.
00:10:45TU O�UJRO DE NEL IÓN.
00:10:49HASTA LA MUERTE.
00:10:55I Michigan nerviosa una parada de milas cadenas saxocas en el 28-30,
00:11:00quien le hacía más de la marca y se pasó algo.
00:11:04Fue a escuchar y me dijo que no lo creíais.
00:11:07And when it comes, people are happy, it's a feast, let's go.
00:11:11Our idol of the young people, of many of us, of our age.
00:11:15And the truth is, when we came here, I thought, well, if you have a chance in the Napoli,
00:11:19you can't do it in the Sevilla, you can't do it in a small team.
00:11:22With what astucia he painted, Maradona continues the danger.
00:11:27Gol, gol, gol, gol, gol, gol.
00:11:30I had seen him win a World Cup, he had seen the famous hand,
00:11:34he had seen the goal in England.
00:11:36I saw that with 14 or 15 years old and suddenly, with 22 years old,
00:11:40I had seen it on my side.
00:11:42The impact is very high.
00:11:44So, now, you can only extrapolate to a child who had seen a Messi win a title
00:11:50and suddenly, you can share a vestuario, something like that.
00:11:59I agree, perfect.
00:12:00I agree, perfect.
00:12:01It was great.
00:12:02It was great.
00:12:03It was incredible.
00:12:03It was great.
00:12:04It was great.
00:12:05We saw it on the TV, we saw it, we saw it, we saw it, we saw it,
00:12:11but you could never see it on the green, playing with your camiseta.
00:12:15It was great.
00:12:17And the spectacle that he had seen that.
00:12:19That was great.
00:12:24Maradona.
00:12:26Maradona, the first, looking to Bango.
00:12:27Bango, the head, Monchu.
00:12:28Gol.
00:12:29Gol.
00:12:30Gol.
00:12:31In the Sevilla.
00:12:32Gol.
00:12:33The end.
00:12:33I'm crying out of the rage, of joy, of so many things, because it took me two years,
00:12:38two years, two years without playing with people, without playing a official game, and it costed
00:12:43a lot.
00:12:44I, above all, I don't have defraud to the people who believed in me, in people like the
00:12:50Mr. Cuerva, the Mr. Del Nido, the people of Sevilla who believed in Maradona, and well,
00:12:55today we were able to demonstrate the first victory, and we hope that we will continue.
00:12:58And being absent from football, and being absent from football, and being able to return to
00:13:05his activity, it motivated him.
00:13:08That's why his change of mood and his way of life, let's say.
00:13:15What did you say to the people of Sevilla who lived in the Sevilla?
00:13:23Diego en el Sevilla siempre estuvo contento, le gustó, era hermoso estar ahí, la pasaba
00:13:31muy bien, Bilardo lo tenía como un rey.
00:13:35Y su familia también, Claudia, las nenas, las nenas eran chiquitas en ese momento.
00:13:41Él estaba feliz, él estaba en su salsa, como nosotros decimos normalmente.
00:13:53Todo el mundo tenía dudas de cuándo íbamos a poder ver al Maradona importante.
00:14:00Y yo creo que el partido del Madrid fue la primera vez que detectamos que podía volver.
00:14:16Él veía las cosas más rápido que los demás, tenía un último pase rapidísimo y, bueno,
00:14:21su habilidad con el balón y con la cabeza era innato.
00:14:24Veo cómo se movía ahí, en esa zona, en esa zona venía a recibir, era letal.
00:14:39Nuestros jugadores extranjeros eran Davor Zucker, Cholo Simeone y Diego Armando Maradona.
00:14:48Es increíble que con este equipo no consiguieramos un título.
00:14:54Diego estaba pletórico, Diego estuvo durante la mitad, la mitad de su estancia en Sevilla como nunca había estado.
00:15:16Estaba tan bien, tan bien, tan bien, que llegó la fatídica convocatoria del Coco Basile,
00:15:31otrora seleccionador de Argentina, para disputar un amistoso que significaba el retorno de Diego,
00:15:41el rey Diego, primero de Argentina, a su país.
00:15:48El Sevilla, paralelamente, el miércoles tenía que jugar un partido, creo, de Copa en Logroño.
00:15:55Yo creo que la relación entre Maradona y el Sevilla Cambia fue con motivo de una convocatoria de la selección argentina,
00:16:05tanto a Diego Pablo Simeone y a Diego Maradona.
00:16:09Era un partido amistoso, el Sevilla no le dio permiso, el entrenador se metió por medio
00:16:14y ahí ya hubo un conflicto imposible de superar.
00:16:18Pero tú a Diego no le puedes decir, te prohíbo que vayas allí, por mis narices.
00:16:29Claro, por sus narices, Diego tiene muchas narices.
00:16:34Y digo, ah, sí, pues yo me voy.
00:16:36Y se fue.
00:16:48Y sinceramente no pienso que nadie haya pensado que podría haber vuelto a jugar para Argentina.
00:17:03En ese momento, si hay una persona que te dice que sabía que Diego iba a volver, te está mintiendo.
00:17:10La verdad que pensé que yo había llegado tarde al mundo del fútbol y él ya había salido.
00:17:17¡Dieguito Pablo!
00:17:22Ya va a venir, ya llegará.
00:17:27Maradona se preparaba para mundiales, no se preparaba para ligas.
00:17:31Maradona sabía que los clubes eran un medio para estar en forma para llegar a un mundial.
00:17:38Eso no lo ha hecho nadie.
00:17:39Entonces él, cuando le niegan esa posibilidad o le ponen dificultad a esa posibilidad,
00:17:43su conducta con respecto al Sevilla cambia.
00:17:47Digo, Armando Maradona tenía mucha influencia sobre un sector importante de la plantilla, ¿no?
00:17:54Y porque eran jóvenes, porque lo veían como un ídolo,
00:17:58porque lo veían como un astro del deporte al que se dedicaban, del fútbol, inalcanzable.
00:18:03Y entonces se dejaban llevar.
00:18:05Ante eso, pues decidimos contratar los servicios de un asesor detective
00:18:12que vigilar a su movimiento.
00:18:14There was an order, some days, that was to wait for the exit of the players.
00:18:33So, he always had the Porsche, he would go out at all speed.
00:18:42We were waiting in front, two big cars, and behind the car was impossible.
00:19:00It was great, it was an adventure, a movie.
00:19:04Well, the job was simple.
00:19:10You want to know if Diego is successful with the contract.
00:19:16I remember sitting there, and then he came with the car, he had a Porsche.
00:19:23It sounded like a shot.
00:19:25He started talking and he was a little worried.
00:19:27He asked me, what happened?
00:19:29He said, there is a man with a motorcycle that is always close to my car.
00:19:35He came to any place, he appeared in the motorcycle,
00:19:38he was always in the same motorcycle.
00:19:40And then, he already assumed, lógicamente, that someone was watching.
00:19:47That building was a building, very known in the 90s,
00:19:54here in Sevilla.
00:19:55It was called La Casita.
00:19:56It was a place with people with a lot of money.
00:19:59Here came politicians, famous people.
00:20:02They came here and were the prostitutes the most selectors of Sevilla,
00:20:08in this area.
00:20:09And here came several times, some videos, if they were taken here.
00:20:20When they decide to see Maradona,
00:20:24what was the nightlife life of Maradona,
00:20:28it was very bothers me.
00:20:30And he left it alone.
00:20:33Maradona was someone who, as much as he was pressured,
00:20:39his rebeldía was terrible.
00:20:43Terrible.
00:20:44Because he took a path,
00:20:46and he took a path,
00:20:47and there was no way back.
00:20:49What was the way he took?
00:20:52In Sevilla,
00:20:54we were leaving.
00:20:56He told me,
00:20:58you know what happened, Arito?
00:21:00You know what happened, Arito?
00:21:01You know,
00:21:02you know,
00:21:03you're going to get up.
00:21:04When you get up to the highest level,
00:21:05you're so alone
00:21:07that no one tells you the path.
00:21:09And I took the wrong path.
00:21:12It's a mistake.
00:21:16We were able to prove that you had a bad life.
00:21:20We tried to help him,
00:21:22first,
00:21:23taping in the media of communication
00:21:26what was happening.
00:21:27And then,
00:21:28that his life didn't lead to anything good.
00:21:38He was a little bit more apatic.
00:21:42He was a little bit more reserved,
00:21:46not as happy as when he came to any training.
00:21:50Before he started the camp he was talking to everyone,
00:21:54because there were 300 people who were talking to him.
00:21:56And when he was in a part, he was less.
00:21:58And the truth is, he was not.
00:22:00He was not able to see it.
00:22:02After the parties too.
00:22:10I was witnesses of his ascension to the top
00:22:12and his fall.
00:22:14I think it wasn't him,
00:22:16it was what cocaine allowed him to do.
00:22:22How did he not say positive during his time here?
00:22:24Let's see.
00:22:26Let's see.
00:22:28That's a good question.
00:22:32Oficialmente,
00:22:34because the controls anti-dopage
00:22:36were quite laxed.
00:22:38Maybe in that boat
00:22:40the urine of Diego
00:22:42was not his own.
00:22:44It could be.
00:22:48Maybe there was someone
00:22:50who had to pee pee for him.
00:22:54In the same time,
00:22:56in the same time,
00:22:58as the relationship
00:23:02with Carlos Salvador Bilardo
00:23:04and Diego Armando Maradona
00:23:06was of father and son,
00:23:08everything was fine.
00:23:10But when Diego
00:23:12didn't have a good relationship
00:23:14with Bilardo,
00:23:16everything broke out.
00:23:18se produjo un en un partido puntual un choque de de trenes fue contra contra el burgos
00:23:39inesperadamente vilardo cambió a maradona
00:23:44jamás habían cambiado a maradona jamás
00:23:55nosotros pensábamos que era algo normal maradona nunca era sustituido pero no pensamos que ese día
00:24:03iba a suceder todo lo que sucedió
00:24:05eso fue la gota que revanzó el vaso no lo soportó lo insultó delante de todas las cámaras sabiendo
00:24:20perfectamente lo que hacía entonces con marco bajamos rápidamente el vestuario porque obviamente nos
00:24:26íbamos a ir en cualquier caso no una forma muy adecuada de despedirse la afición sevillista tanto
00:24:31sobre todo por parte de que por parte de usted esperaba algo más haciendo usted yo creo que
00:24:35se hizo lo posible es ir un minuto ahí es una una desgracia que ocurre igual pero el equipo se hizo
00:24:42todo para poder ganar y después nos fuimos a la casa junto con marco franchi perdón y daniel
00:24:51bolonikov y estando ahí suena el portero eléctrico y atiendo yo
00:24:59quienes caso carlos carlos y era vilardo a bueno pasa a carlos entonces cuando pasó
00:25:05llegó y son está digo arriba estaba mirando televisión y ahí se generó una discusión se
00:25:11fueron a las manos y bueno fue la culminación y cuando subimos
00:25:21fue de risa porque digo estaba arriba de un puf rojo me acuerdo frente al televisor en guardia y
00:25:26carlos sentado en la pareja parece que se había revelado se había caído
00:25:31ya no vuelve a entrenar más con el sevilla y se fue a la semana siguiente
00:25:38bilardo me confesó ya pasados varios años que se equivocó que metió la pata hasta aquí
00:25:48jose la cagué y se la acabó
00:25:54maradona era indominable ingobernable un día estaba con fidel en cuba después estaba preso porque
00:26:11consumía cocaína después lo suspendía a la fifa las mil vidas de maradona
00:26:23bueno maradona tenía algo muy especial carisma impresionante en pocas veces vi que generara ese
00:26:33nivel de de adoración no como que no le podía decir que no nadie le podía decir que no digo maradona
00:26:42y se le perdonaba a todos siempre se le perdonó todo a maradona creo que eso fue un error de todos
00:26:50nosotros haberle perdonado absolutamente todo
00:27:03el equipo colombiano es bárbaro lo viste por la televisión juegan muy bien al fútbol sí pero yo
00:27:08creo que ellos con el segundo puesto también ellos ellos no pueden romper la historia ellos no deben
00:27:18romper la historia nosotros los argentinos tenemos que seguir históricamente como estamos o sea
00:27:24argentina arriba colombia abajo y ahí está todo bien el fútbol no el fútbol no lo puede cambiar un
00:27:31equipo colombiano que juega muy bien al fútbol
00:27:33fue un día muy especial porque en esta cancha había mucha gente mucha gente
00:27:43diego vivía muy cerquita de acá en la calle correa y libertador yo fui hasta la casa vinimos en su
00:27:51camioneta ingresó al estacionamiento y subimos por ese sector la entrada del medio donde están los
00:27:59asientos más oscuros y nos ubicamos más o menos a esta altura ahí estaba el padre venía con nosotros
00:28:07estaba franci estaba bolonikov estaba y más estaba claudia por supuesto
00:28:16teníamos las ganas de ganar y queríamos ir al mundial si nos estábamos jugando la chance de ir al
00:28:40mundial y nosotros estábamos seguros de que íbamos a ganar no teníamos dudas el partido contra colombia
00:28:55arranca con un clima de euforia vamos vamos argentina era como un trámite era lo vamos a resolver se va a
00:29:06resolver fácil que si yo era como resolvamos esto y saquémonos encima y empecemos a pensar en el mundial
00:29:11y a medida que iba pasando el partido era como que todos nos empezábamos a mirar y decíamos que esto
00:29:17no está tan fácil esto se está complicando y están los goles no por él y valderrama a zapata que lo
00:29:24estaba persiguiendo lo veo rodríguez que se acerca simione que quiere la pelota la tiene
00:29:28ahora creo que lo vivimos mal porque uno a cero para ellos lo recuperamos pensábamos
00:29:422 a 0 vamos que se puede
00:29:47el tercer gol y ahí murmullo murmullo se escucha la gente ya no atinaba nada
00:29:54digo no decía nada no decía nada no decía nada no decía nada
00:30:01pero nada ni siquiera insultaba
00:30:11bueno este fue uno de los momentos feos de esta época donde vos veías que que los simpatizantes
00:30:18nuestros estaban aplaudiendo a colombia como un poco de sarcasmo y nos estaba eso interiormente nos
00:30:27estaba matando
00:30:35después de verlo después de tantos años duele no lo volví a ver este partido
00:30:40de este tipo por este marcador un equipo argentino totalmente desordenado
00:30:57de este tipo por este marcador un equipo argentino totalmente desordenado
00:31:10el clima era de cuando vos no podés creer la gente no podía creer el baile que estaba pegando
00:31:19colombia a la argentina astrilla la pedía para dentro de la lencia
00:31:245 a 0 en 39 minutos del segundo tiempo todo el público al promediar el segundo tiempo
00:31:33comenzar a gritar de manera simultánea y espontáneamente no empezó un
00:31:41un himno una liturgia un rito
00:31:48que era como decir te estoy diciendo rotundamente que queremos a maradona
00:31:58don donna la gente quiere que juegue maradona usted como presidente
00:32:13maradona no puede estar en una lista automáticamente siempre lo que he manifestado
00:32:18e incluso el técnico lo ha dicho está en condiciones maradona
00:32:22ya prácticamente está en la selección
00:32:25en ese momento fue increíble pero era sensación muy difícil
00:32:30porque en realidad uno quería que argentina gane pero también en unos
00:32:33estando al lado de dios en orgullecía de que la gente lo quisiese tanto
00:32:38y cuando terminó el partido
00:32:40no quiero equivocarme pero las palabras fueron más o menos así
00:32:45muchachos
00:32:46yo voy a volver
00:32:52this sunday 200 million viewers will tune to the sydney football stadium to witness
00:32:57australia play argentina for the rights to become a finalist in next year's world cup
00:33:03to win australia must not only beat a world-class team but also a legend
00:33:08diego maradona
00:33:11diego
00:33:14diego
00:33:18diego
00:33:22ole ole ole ole ole
00:33:25después de la derrota frente a colombia
00:33:29había grandes posibilidades
00:33:32of not playing the World.
00:33:36You have the last possibility.
00:33:38You have to win the Oceania champion
00:33:42a repech.
00:33:43Who is the champion of Oceania?
00:33:46Australia.
00:33:50A Diego lo llaman
00:33:51only because he lost with Colombia.
00:33:53If Argentina le gana a Colombia
00:33:54and he classifies,
00:33:55I doubt that Diego was in the World.
00:33:57I doubt.
00:33:58It was inevitable that Maradona
00:34:01played the two games with the Australian.
00:34:03Because the voice of the people
00:34:06is the voice of God.
00:34:08So, to Grondona and Basile
00:34:11there was no other way than Carlos.
00:34:17Grondona was an important figure
00:34:20in the FIFA
00:34:21and Australia was a Benjamin
00:34:24of the FIFA
00:34:26because it belongs
00:34:28to a continent
00:34:30of a football
00:34:32of an incipient development.
00:34:36So, Grondona
00:34:38proposed to the Australian
00:34:40Football Federation
00:34:41that it is not worth
00:34:43doing control anti-doping.
00:34:45So,
00:34:46he played without control anti-doping.
00:34:48It is very suspect
00:34:49that there was no control anti-doping.
00:34:51It is very suspect
00:34:53that there was no control anti-doping.
00:34:55It is very suspect.
00:34:57There were some precedents
00:34:58of Diego
00:34:59who had had conflicts
00:35:01with drugs.
00:35:02Argentina
00:35:03needed to win those parties.
00:35:05I leave it
00:35:06in the imagination
00:35:07of the people
00:35:08that they
00:35:10look for
00:35:11why there was no dopage.
00:35:12Why did you
00:35:13do it?
00:35:14Why did you
00:35:18do it?
00:35:23I think
00:35:24we all received
00:35:25with the hands
00:35:26open.
00:35:27It was so great
00:35:28to have him
00:35:29at the side,
00:35:30to talk with him,
00:35:31to wear the shirt
00:35:32of the selector,
00:35:33to face the part
00:35:34that we played
00:35:35in the best way.
00:35:36So,
00:35:38he was a kid
00:35:39who came to
00:35:40look for
00:35:41the revenge
00:35:42and the glory
00:35:44and
00:35:45that was a total contagion.
00:35:46he was a
00:35:48man
00:35:49and
00:35:50he got his first
00:35:51touch.
00:35:52He influenced
00:35:53everything.
00:35:54He made
00:35:56everything
00:35:57was possible.
00:35:58He made you think
00:35:59everything was possible.
00:36:00And that
00:36:01all
00:36:02the environment
00:36:03was affected.
00:36:04He influenced
00:36:05everything.
00:36:06He influenced
00:36:07everything.
00:36:08was a
00:36:11maradona
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00:36:36a
00:36:37Maestro, thank you.
00:36:42I say thank you to everyone who made my turn possible.
00:36:51I have to say thank you, really.
00:36:54And especially to Grondona, to Coco, to my colleagues...
00:37:01...for having received me again in this selection.
00:37:06The second one in Argentina was won, minimally...
00:37:12...but we had classified very, very, very accordingly.
00:37:33Hello world, welcome to the USA.
00:37:36Hello world, welcome to the USA.
00:37:42Hello world, welcome to the USA.
00:37:46It's part of my job to make sure nothing gets past me.
00:37:50And now, on to Las Vegas and the final draw.
00:37:56Live from Caesars Palace, it's the 1994 FIFA World Cup final draw.
00:38:04We came to the final draw and we decided that we are going to actually have this in Las Vegas.
00:38:14What more American experience, good, bad or indifferent, could you have than an event in Las Vegas?
00:38:22It really was a trial run for the entire tournament.
00:38:32We wanted it to be bigger and better and more impactful than any draw before it.
00:38:40It is with great pride and humility that I accept this trophy, the most sought after prize in the world of sports.
00:38:48The global community has set the highest standards for us to meet this summer.
00:38:52The United States proudly accepts the challenge.
00:38:59Here is the General Secretary of FIFA, Sepp Blatter.
00:39:02Really, Alan Rottenberg and his team, they made it great.
00:39:10This is America.
00:39:11And this was something exceptional.
00:39:14Please welcome actor-comedian Robin Williams.
00:39:21Mr. Blatter, so nice to meet you after feeling you for so many years.
00:39:25Nice to have you here.
00:39:28Robin Williams was an amazing talent.
00:39:30But the episode that everybody remembers is him referring to Sepp Blatter as Sepp Blatter.
00:39:39D-D-E-R, not T-T-E-R.
00:39:42Robin, that's wonderful.
00:39:44Or shall I say, Mrs. Doubtfire?
00:39:46Oh, thank you, Mr. Blatter.
00:39:50Funny, I met you just in the men's room a minute.
00:39:55I have to say, that was not so easy.
00:39:58It was not so easy.
00:40:02Across the nation, America is getting ready for the World Cup kickoff.
00:40:09The police are preparing for the worst.
00:40:13Hostile activity that involves rock throwing and bottle throwing.
00:40:17They're ready for hooligans, relieved that England and its fans are not coming.
00:40:25Quite frankly, Alan Rothenberg was overjoyed that England didn't qualify.
00:40:31And I think where he went right away was that the security budget could be halved.
00:40:40FIFA and the World Cup Organizing Committee took a very, very strong, proactive stance on the doping procedures and the doping messaging.
00:40:49In New York, we had a seminar with all the participants, and then we went through everything and doping was for sure also a part of it.
00:41:00They knew what was coming.
00:41:021988, Ben Johnson, it was the case.
00:41:07And from that on, FIFA took the doping more seriously than before.
00:41:14And this is one of the merits of Sepp Blatter, that he really took the problems seriously, you know.
00:41:19What was the case?
00:41:20A ver, Maradona siempre era noticia, por una u otra razón.
00:41:36Y había desaparecido, nadie sabía dónde estaba durante, creo que días incluso, ¿no?
00:41:44Y de repente se supo que estaba en Moreno.
00:41:47Entonces, bueno, todos los canales, todos los medios fuimos, mandaron su equipo de periodistas a hacer la cobertura.
00:41:56Bueno, lo que pasa es que Diego se iba a la quinta, un poco para aislarse, hasta que los periodistas detectaron que estaba allí.
00:42:13Yo fui a hablar con ellos porque me pidió Diego que fuera a hablar para que se fuesen y lo dejasen tranquilos.
00:42:20Bueno, conseguimos el resultado inverso.
00:42:27Cada vez había más.
00:42:30Después querían abrir la puerta, el portón, para entrar.
00:42:37Llegamos a la Quinta Moreno y le grito,
00:42:40Pelu, Pelu, soy yo, Lito.
00:42:44Entonces me abre y me hacen pasar.
00:42:47Y yo veo que está con un rifle de aire comprimido apoyado en el Mercedes.
00:42:52Pongo los brazos y le digo, ¿vos tenés idea el quilombo que estás armando?
00:42:59Y se los voy a matar a todos.
00:43:01¿Hace cuánto que estaban aquí en la puerta?
00:43:13Yo hace aproximadamente media hora.
00:43:15¿Los disparos no cesan?
00:43:16No, no, no.
00:43:17Desde que llegué, que empezaron a disparar.
00:43:19Me pegaron, como podrás ver a mí, compañero de...
00:43:23¿Quién hay que gritar, eh?
00:43:25¿Por qué están agrediendo a la prensa?
00:43:26Venimos solamente a dialogar, a buscar alguna explicación.
00:43:28Ya le dije que acá no quiero a nadie.
00:43:31Bueno, y lo voy a seguir lastimando.
00:43:34Porque acá no quiero que rompan los huevos a mi hija, nada más.
00:43:37Diego, Diego, hay cuatro personas lastimadas.
00:43:39A ver si el que grita tiene un huevo de bancársela, eh.
00:43:43Diego.
00:43:44¿Pero por qué la necesidad de tirar contra el periodismo?
00:43:47¿De atrás del coche?
00:43:48No, no, no.
00:43:51Cuando llegaron las 19 horas, que era el horario del noticiero de Telefe,
00:43:56mandaron un móvil en vivo para salir desde ahí.
00:44:00Me subí al techo de la combi con mi camarógrafo para salir en vivo.
00:44:05Y en el momento que empiezo a hablar, desde el interior de la quinta,
00:44:09me tiran un chorro de agua con una manguera de presión.
00:44:14Esto es realmente lamentable.
00:44:15Nosotros lo que queremos es destacar.
00:44:18¡No, no, no!
00:44:19¡No, no!
00:44:21Es mentira porque acá vino, el agua está vacinando.
00:44:24¡No, no!
00:44:25Es mentira porque acá vino, el agua está vacinando.
00:44:26Es mentira.
00:44:27Tenía esa relación de amor y odio.
00:44:28Por un lado, se quejaba del asedio, pero no podía vivir sin eso, ¿no?
00:44:42Me dijo, bueno, quería que lo ayudara a preparar ese que iba a ser tal vez su último mundial.
00:44:47Y yo le dije, escúchame, Diego, dejaste ser fútbol.
00:44:52Tenés 12 kilos más.
00:44:56Estás con tu problema de adicción.
00:44:59Pero él me dijo que no.
00:45:00Yo te aseguro, quiero llegar de la mejor manera y voy a dejar absolutamente todo porque quiero coronar ese sueño.
00:45:08Queríamos buscar un lugar para que Diego pueda estar en buen estado para ingresar en la selección.
00:45:17Porque no queríamos ningún lugar donde hubiese mucha gente, donde hubiese vecinos, ni lugares divertidos.
00:45:33Estaba más gordo que el papá todavía.
00:45:40Y me dice, ¿a dónde me trajiste, ciego hijo de puta?
00:45:46Y él encantado, era Rocky, porque además ponían esa música.
00:46:05Y que él tenía que dedicarse a algo.
00:46:21No podía estar saliendo de diversión y de todo lo que más o menos se conoce.
00:46:29Hay una tranquilidad increíble porque acá no se escucha nada, no pasa nadie, no hay colectivos, no hay aviones, no hay nada.
00:46:41Y bueno, entonces eso te da para descansar.
00:46:46En la que yo sabía que en cualquier momento podía sobrevenir el problema de la abstinencia, ¿no? Del síndrome.
00:46:59Pero recuerdo que en una de las noches escuché un ruido en la puerta y me giro y era Diego que estaba en el marco de la puerta y me miraba con los ojos muy fijos.
00:47:12Y me hizo con la cabeza, vamos.
00:47:16Yo presenté a que eso iba a pasar, porque en algún momento es como el que fuma y no tiene cigarrillos y a medianoche es capaz de salir y hacer diez kilómetros para ir a encontrar.
00:47:31Y la cocaína tiene un poder de enganche mucho mayor.
00:47:35O sea, vamos corriendo.
00:47:39Entonces arrancaba y frenaba, arrancaba y frenaba.
00:47:42Otra manera de soportar el dolor y de recuperarse fue capaz de dejar la cocaína en Buenos Aires.
00:47:49No llevó ni un miligramo porque él quería hacer frente a todo porque quería llegar de la mejor manera a ese mundial.
00:47:57Empujame, te empujo, salto, caída, dale.
00:48:03Y en un momento él...
00:48:08Ya está, ya pasó.
00:48:27...
00:48:40...
00:48:44...
00:48:49The opening of the World Cup happened to coincide with one of the oddly high-visibility events
00:48:58that had happened in the United States in decades, and that was the escape of OJ Simpson
00:49:03from the scene of the alleged murder of his wife and the great chase of the white bronco
00:49:09down the freeways of L.A.
00:49:13A manhunt is underway in Los Angeles at this hour for OJ Simpson.
00:49:18The former football star is now officially a fugitive from justice in a double murder case.
00:49:25OJ Simpson was a hard hit for us because when we saw this on TV and on the radio
00:49:31and everybody, the Americans, were all of a sudden totally excited only about this.
00:49:37Everybody was speaking about that, not about football.
00:49:40We could have stopped football and nobody would have noticed.
00:49:43And we saw on TV a reality show, like a movie, you know, the people in helicopters and police cars
00:49:50hunting an American icon.
00:49:53Over the top, onside, Hessler, ducks it inside!
00:49:58The Libyan protests, but only momentary, and Jürgen Klinsmann scores.
00:50:03One thing we knew, but I don't think FIFA understood at all, was that the United States can deal
00:50:10with two huge stories in one day.
00:50:12We knew that every nation in the world that qualified for the World Cup would, every one of those teams,
00:50:30in a sense, would be a home team on the day of their game.
00:50:33The whole World Cup was a festival.
00:50:39Don't forget, this was, you know, a toxic time in football, but the USA 94 kind of purged all that.
00:50:45It brought on a new, joyful, you know, let's just have the crack, let's enjoy the game, let's enjoy the football.
00:50:58The Ireland-Italy game was one of the highlights of the tournament.
00:51:03Italy v. Ireland in East New Jersey, next door to Manhattan and Brooklyn, that is the New York derby.
00:51:11That is the battle for New York's soul.
00:51:14And in the 11th minute, to everybody's amazement, Ireland went ahead 1-0 and held on.
00:51:25I don't even have to tell you what it was like to be at the Abbey Tavern on 3rd Avenue.
00:51:30I mean, I leave it to your imagination.
00:51:34When we arrived in the U.S. to the Babson College, it was a kind of hotel that was where the Selecció was.
00:51:54It was a great place, a great place, with huge parks, where the players were with their family.
00:52:01Adrian Paenza, good evening, if you're listening in Boston.
00:52:06Now you're listening?
00:52:06Yes, now I'm listening very well, Adrian, very well.
00:52:09We spoke with Grondono and he told me, you know,
00:52:24that it's a difficult situation.
00:52:41Grondono has an entourage, a medical entourage.
00:52:45And if you permit us that we can have his medical team with, then we are happy and we will bear the costs also of this team.
00:52:56The people who followed us in the world's tour were Fernando Siggiorini, Marco Franchi, Daniel Serrini, and then I was I.
00:53:11Well, Daniel Serrini, I met him when Diego called me to start the training, then he told me that he had a boy who was a physical and culturalist.
00:53:29He had an excellent result, he never worked well, and, well, from this new era that we are carrying together, he found a way to improve his physical day.
00:53:45I realized quickly that Siggiorini, maybe he knew what apparently he had to do, but of football and of football, he didn't know much about it.
00:53:59Serrini to Diego, I think, what he always wanted to do was the magic things he wanted to do.
00:54:08He had told him that he was going to carry him magically to the world as he never had.
00:54:17So, that's what he became crazy about.
00:54:21What did you do with the team?
00:54:25When the team arrived, we went to the first training and we saw a Maradona training, I couldn't believe it.
00:54:34I saw a Diego, I saw a Diego, I saw a Diego.
00:54:36In the game with Australia, eight months ago, nine months ago, the legs were flaccid, the body was kind of encoded.
00:54:47When I saw him into the concentration in the Babson College, I thought, who is this guy?
00:54:53He was a statue, you didn't know what he was.
00:54:55I thought, how much do you weigh now?
00:55:00How much do you weigh now?
00:55:01I want to divide it into two parts.
00:55:03First, you're happy, right?
00:55:04Of course, I'm going to start my fourth World Cup.
00:55:06I want to tell the Argentinos that I'm fine.
00:55:09I want to give them joy together with this team.
00:55:14If we don't share, we won't win.
00:55:16What did you do with the team?
00:55:22There was a group of players that were spectacular.
00:55:26Everything was so easy in the training and Diego was omnipresent.
00:55:35The type, the emblem of the Argentine selector of the last 15 years.
00:55:41The most respected and admired player in the world.
00:55:45But above all, a friend, a guy who knew well he wanted to return
00:55:48because we knew well he was his last World Cup.
00:56:04If you ask me, do you remember your career?
00:56:07I remember that fight against Grecia.
00:56:09He was there, and I was there.
00:56:11At the point of starting a World Cup.
00:56:14I couldn't believe it.
00:56:16I couldn't believe it.
00:56:17I had Maradona on my side.
00:56:18And the early break now for Argentina.
00:56:24And they got three up and a spearman to the left.
00:56:27And suddenly, the game begins, and at two minutes, a goal.
00:56:35It was fake, fake, because it was a fake.
00:56:37But it was the goal.
00:56:38And I had my first goal in the World Cup.
00:56:40We have been playing just one minute and 20 seconds.
00:56:45And Argentina score the softest of goals.
00:56:49And everyone loved me.
00:56:51I loved it.
00:56:52I loved it.
00:56:53I loved it.
00:56:54I loved it.
00:56:55I loved it.
00:56:56I loved it.
00:57:10It was an offensive team, an incredible goal.
00:57:23It was a team that had absolutely everything. It was very compensated.
00:57:31What I remember is the goal of Diego.
00:57:40One of the most beautiful goals of the world.
00:57:53Argentino Marabona, Diego Armando Marabona.
00:57:59Marabona!
00:58:02In that scream that broke the fourth wall, you know?
00:58:08The guy who went to the camera, I said,
00:58:11Podemos is the champion.
00:58:13No, I don't remember any football player.
00:58:16I never heard of Marabona.
00:58:18That guy looking at the camera saying, I'm alive.
00:58:21I'm alive.
00:58:22I'm here.
00:58:23I'm not killed.
00:58:24When he was in the camera, it was not the right Marabona.
00:58:33He thought he's the best.
00:58:36And if you are the best, you don't tell it. You show it.
00:58:40What is the best you have?
00:58:41What is the best you have?
00:58:43Well, that was taken.
00:58:45I don't know.
00:58:46I don't know.
00:58:48Diego's eyes were disorbitated.
00:58:51It was a moment of a break.
00:58:53It was a explosion.
00:58:55It was an explosion that would free it.
00:58:57And it made me know everyone.
00:58:59I'm here.
00:59:01What is the best you have?
00:59:04And Argentina went on the way to be the champion.
00:59:06With Marabona Pleno and the team Pleno.
00:59:08He had a team in Argentina.
00:59:10And it became a threat.
00:59:13It became a threat.
00:59:14It became a threat.
00:59:15It became a threat.
00:59:18That Marabona didn't call it.
00:59:20Marabona had already expressed his weakness by Fidel Castro.
00:59:25Well, I'm very happy to remember my meeting with Marabona.
00:59:30Marabona siempre ha sido muy amistoso.
00:59:33Siempre ha sido muy leal.
00:59:35Le deseo a los argentinos todos los éxitos posibles.
00:59:39Y le deseo especial éxito a Marabona.
00:59:42Marabona.
00:59:45Esto producía en los Estados Unidos cierto cosquilleo.
00:59:48Un Marabona levantando la Copa del Mundo, ganándola.
00:59:51Y dedicándosela a Fidel Castro en Estados Unidos.
00:59:56Era una situación delicada.
00:59:59Delicada.
01:00:00Y después pasó lo que pasó.
01:00:12El segundo partido con Nigeria, que había ganado el primer partido contra Bulgaria de forma contundente.
01:00:25Nosotros teníamos claro que era un partido muy difícil.
01:00:29Sabíamos bien la capacidad que tenía Nigeria de lastimarte, de hacerte daño.
01:00:34Y nos hizo daño en los primeros minutos.
01:00:37Aquí es Jokini, para Nigeria.
01:00:39Oh, y tiene la número 12 en él.
01:00:43¡Está ahí!
01:00:47Y Nigeria toma la lead contra Argentina.
01:00:59Y a Diego le pegaban.
01:01:01Y Diego la pedía.
01:01:03Ahí yo terminé de entender todo lo que era Diego y todo lo que influía.
01:01:05Porque le pegaban y no se quedaba tirado en el piso.
01:01:09Se levantaba y decía, dale, vamos.
01:01:14Peleaba con el árbitro.
01:01:15Peleaba con los defensores.
01:01:17Nos retaba.
01:01:18Nos alentaba.
01:01:20Y aparte jugaba.
01:01:24Y estaba, sí, creo que fue el mejor partido.
01:01:26Mejor partido.
01:01:30Pudimos dar vuelta el partido.
01:01:32Bueno, convierto primero un gol de un tiro libre de Batistuta.
01:01:36Y luego el segundo gol, que fue espectacular.
01:01:46Y luego el segundo gol, que fue espectacular.
01:01:49Diego, que me tiró una pelota, pero habían cobrado un full anteriormente.
01:01:55Yo le devuelvo la pelota.
01:01:59Yo le digo, dámela.
01:02:01Dámela porque, si no, basta que uno se dé cuenta.
01:02:03Yo le decía, no me estabas viendo.
01:02:04Si no, te tuve que gritar dos o tres veces.
01:02:06Y no me la dabas.
01:02:07Pero me dice, claro que te había visto.
01:02:08Obviamente.
01:02:15Pero yo estaba esperando que subieran todos.
01:02:18Porque es verdad, que subieran todos y para distraernos, ¿no?
01:02:20Y después, por medio de un último
01:02:38GANÓ, GANÓ, GANÓ LA ARGENTINA!
01:02:47Cuando termina el partido y ganamos,
01:02:49me acuerdo que entran dos mujeres, dos enfermeras, dos rubias.
01:02:53Uno le agarra a Diego, el otro me agarra a mí.
01:02:58Nunca antes se había visto que dos enfermeras entraran al campo de juego
01:03:02y nos agarraran de los brazos.
01:03:04Parecía que estuviéramos en un jardín infante.
01:03:08Diego, espectacular.
01:03:14Gracias a Dios.
01:03:16El de arriba me ayudó mucho.
01:03:18He corrido muchísimo.
01:03:20He jugado.
01:03:22Gracias a Dios me dieron las piernas.
01:03:24Esto se lo debo otra vez a todo el trabajo de Fernando.
01:03:28Me sentí muy bien dentro de la cancha porque me sentí importante.
01:03:32Me sentí como que el equipo necesitaba que yo tenga la pelota y así lo hice.
01:03:35Es para todos ustedes, argentinos.
01:03:37Los quiero mucho. Tota, vos también.
01:03:39No, no, no.
01:03:41No, no, no.
01:03:43No, no, no.
01:03:45No, no.
01:03:47They were walking like two daughters,
01:03:49and they were like,
01:03:51like,
01:03:52walking around.
01:03:53It was all a situation
01:03:55of love,
01:03:57I would say.
01:03:58It was like a romance
01:03:59that we were living debaixo.
01:04:00And we were in the table
01:04:01and we were overwhelmed.
01:04:05And no doubt,
01:04:07no fear,
01:04:08no fear,
01:04:09no fear.
01:04:10For us it was completely regular,
01:04:12completely ordinary.
01:04:17At that time I was not worried
01:04:19because I thought
01:04:20that they are intelligent enough
01:04:22but they don't give him substances
01:04:24which are then visible
01:04:26in the doping control.
01:04:28Especially not in the United States.
01:04:34And then Grondona,
01:04:36he changed color.
01:04:39He made
01:04:41the sin,
01:04:43the sign,
01:04:44the cross,
01:04:45and said,
01:04:46that God
01:04:49protects us.
01:04:52God
01:04:53protects us.
01:04:55the one
01:05:06and the party
01:05:09the Velocity
01:05:10was really
01:05:11as simple as the 10
01:05:13as the 10
01:05:15as the 20
01:05:17as the 15
01:05:18as the 10
01:05:19as it was
01:05:20the 10
01:05:21as the 10
01:05:22as the 21
01:05:23and we had to have fun with all our friends.
01:05:25We had won another game and then we were very happy.
01:05:29Diego, Diego, Diego, Diego.
01:05:31There he is.
01:05:32There he is.
01:05:33Come here.
01:05:34Come here.
01:05:35Come here.
01:05:36Come here.
01:05:37Here are the two.
01:05:38Here are the two.
01:05:39Here are the two.
01:05:40Beautiful.
01:05:41Can I tell you something?
01:05:42I feel, you know, I feel very happy
01:05:44for what happened to you today.
01:05:46Very happy.
01:05:48I thank you very much.
01:05:50I feel ten times more happy
01:05:52than what you felt for me
01:05:54that this man,
01:05:56who I have next to you,
01:05:58has made two goals
01:05:59and has played the way he did.
01:06:02Yes.
01:06:03Very generous.
01:06:04Very generous.
01:06:05Obviously, I had a special connection
01:06:08with him,
01:06:09with this and the other.
01:06:10But I've never seen a guy
01:06:12who was loved by his friends
01:06:14and respected,
01:06:16but very respected
01:06:18and admired by the contrary.
01:06:20We got a telex
01:06:34that there is a positive
01:06:49doping control.
01:06:50And did the concerns
01:06:55play a number 10?
01:06:56Whew.
01:06:57The world was falling down.
01:07:03The world was falling down.
01:07:10Joseph Blatter.
01:07:14Lo llamó Grondona.
01:07:15Grondona.
01:07:16Grondona preguntó muchas veces
01:07:19si había seguridad 100%
01:07:21en el dictamen.
01:07:23Dijo Grondona.
01:07:24Me parece extraño.
01:07:26Una persona no puede ser tan,
01:07:29tan...
01:07:30No, no.
01:07:31No cabe en mi cabeza.
01:07:33No, no.
01:07:34Cualquiera puede ser,
01:07:35menos él.
01:07:36Entonces le dijimos ¿cómo puede ser?
01:07:37Estamos todos abocados a que salga todo bien
01:07:47y nos enteramos de esta sorpresa
01:07:50que no sabemos de dónde viene.
01:07:52Y Diego no hablaba.
01:07:54And Diego didn't talk about it.
01:07:59The only thing we had was Serrini.
01:08:05I remember Serrini was sitting in the bed with a prospect like this,
01:08:10looking at him.
01:08:11And I asked him, what did you do?
01:08:13And he said, I don't know.
01:08:15I went to the room and I saw a lot of drugs.
01:08:27Most of them were from Argentina.
01:08:29One of them was North American.
01:08:33Serrini gave me a substance called Ripper Fats
01:08:38that was sold in Argentina.
01:08:40But in the United States it ended.
01:08:43And they went to the free market.
01:08:46I bought them at the stores.
01:08:48I think they were called G&C.
01:08:50And there was a similar one called Ripper Fuel.
01:08:57And I started looking at the content.
01:08:59I was looking at the content of each one.
01:09:00And I said, it's a 6%.
01:09:02And I said, it's a 6%.
01:09:04I said, it's a 6%.
01:09:05I said, it's a 6%.
01:09:06I said, it's a 6%.
01:09:08Well, I think there's an element.
01:09:16That Diego had already had a big problem with a Dope.
01:09:21And he had been a bit over it.
01:09:23and he had overposed a little bit.
01:09:28So for him it was not a thing that was the first time,
01:09:33and he was surprised.
01:09:36It's good that in our cases it was because
01:09:40of this bloody drug of cocaine.
01:09:53What happened to me?
01:09:59Julio Grondona y me dice,
01:10:01bueno, vas a ir vos a Los Ángeles.
01:10:04No, hay que abrir el frasco B.
01:10:06Andá y hacé lo que puedas para salvarlo.
01:10:11El avión aterriza,
01:10:13nos encerraron en una camioneta
01:10:15y nos llevaron al laboratorio.
01:10:17Sabía por dónde venía la cosa.
01:10:24Digo, la FIFA no está para ayudarnos, me parece.
01:10:29Nos sentamos,
01:10:32estaban dos médicos,
01:10:34los dos médicos que hicieron la prueba.
01:10:38Cuando llego yo, me dan el frasco a mí,
01:10:41miro y el frasco decía efedrina alrededor.
01:10:45Entonces digo, bueno, acá hay un error muy grosero.
01:10:50Digo, este frasco no puede decir efedrina.
01:10:53Hay una cosa que es el ciego.
01:10:55Nadie tiene que saber qué es lo que tiene
01:10:57para hacer un análisis.
01:10:59Entonces, si esto van a, ya lo saben,
01:11:02este frasco es nulo.
01:11:04Bueno, por supuesto ahí empezó a armarse
01:11:06un desastre de gritos, de cosas que yo no entendía nada.
01:11:10Terminó con un pedido que yo hice de
01:11:13de cuarto intermedio para resolver la situación.
01:11:18Bolonikov, que estaba al lado mío, me agarra la pierna así
01:11:23y me dice, los cagamos.
01:11:25Los cagamos, me dijo.
01:11:27Los cagamos, me dijo.
01:11:28Los cagamos, me dijo.
01:11:35Tenemos que ver que seguimos las reglas.
01:11:37Y esto fue, para FIFA, muy, muy importante,
01:11:40para la credibilidad de FIFA.
01:11:42Porque si FIFA hubiera perdido la credibilidad
01:11:44en los Estados Unidos,
01:11:45esto hubiera sido un desastre.
01:11:47Avelanche, presidente de la FIFA, quería que Argentina quedara descalificada.
01:11:54Darle por perdido el partido frente a Nigeria
01:11:58y quedar fuera del campeonato.
01:11:59Era la ponencia de Avelanche.
01:12:03Y Grondona le dijo, si mi equipo se vuelve, yo te inicio una causa penal
01:12:11en los tribunales de Suiza.
01:12:14Entonces Avelanche pidió, calma, no lo resolvamos ni vos ni yo.
01:12:21Dejemos que esto lo resuelva el secretario general, Joseph Blatter.
01:12:29Hicimos una reunión con Julio Grondona, Joao Avelanche y yo.
01:12:35Y Grondona era el hombre que dijo,
01:12:38que se tratara con este caso después de la World Cup.
01:12:42Y yo le dije a Avelanche en francés.
01:12:47No podemos hacer eso.
01:12:50No podemos hacer eso.
01:12:52No podemos hacer eso.
01:12:54No podemos hacer eso.
01:12:55No podemos hacer eso.
01:12:56No es posible.
01:12:57Si Maradona es positivo,
01:13:00es un caso de la dopinga,
01:13:02y él será eliminado.
01:13:08Apareció como un rumor a donde estábamos nosotros en Dallas.
01:13:16Y el equipo argentino se entrenaba por la tarde.
01:13:19Y fuimos al entrenamiento.
01:13:21Ya con un rumor muy fuerte.
01:13:23Y en la cancha se veía a Diego mal en un costado.
01:13:28Los compañeros veían y charlaban con él,
01:13:31pero él no participaba del juego.
01:13:33Y había, como el rumor crecía, crecía, crecía,
01:13:36habría mil periodistas.
01:13:38¿Se puede saber quién es el jugador?
01:13:40Se escucha.
01:13:41El jugador es Diego Manodón.
01:13:42¿Cuál es la sustancia de Garbón?
01:13:44Por favor.
01:13:45Es Pedrillo.
01:13:46¿Qué es esa sustancia?
01:13:47El negotas nasales, Nati Sol.
01:13:48¿Es Maradona el jugador?
01:13:50Es Maradona el jugador.
01:13:51¿Qué puede pasar de confirmarse esto?
01:13:53Bueno, vamos a esperar.
01:13:55Todavía no está hecho la prueba B.
01:13:57¿Puede ser sancionado el jugador o el equipo?
01:13:59El equipo no.
01:14:00El equipo no está sancionado jamás dentro de una copa de nube.
01:14:04¿O sea que no pierde los puntos Argentina?
01:14:06No, en absoluto.
01:14:08Grondona tenía argumentos como para poder defenderlo a Maradona
01:14:12de otra manera.
01:14:13Había habido una irregularidad en la contraprueba.
01:14:16Cuando los abogados de Argentina llegan a ver la contraprueba,
01:14:21la contraprueba había sido violada.
01:14:25Grondona supo, en el momento que a Maradona le da el doping positivo,
01:14:29que él tenía que elegir entre dos cosas.
01:14:31Tenía que elegir entre Maradona y la vicepresidencia de la FIFA.
01:14:35Y él elige la vicepresidencia de la FIFA.
01:14:38Y lo entrega a Maradona.
01:14:40Lo entrega a Maradona.
01:14:42¿Cómo se llaman el jugador?
01:14:43Lo entrega a Maradona,
01:14:44¿cuál es lo que ha estado con el jugador o el jugador o el jugador?
01:14:49We entered in the room and then I sit in the room
01:14:54and he, I don't know if he was asleep or was supposed to be,
01:14:58and then I grab him as many times as he did,
01:15:03like to the kids,
01:15:05that kind of protection, that kind of paternal,
01:15:08and I said,
01:15:09let's go, get up, get up.
01:15:11They killed us.
01:15:13They killed us.
01:15:14They killed us.
01:15:15We killed us,
01:15:17to not say T and let us go alone.
01:15:19We killed us.
01:15:20We killed everyone.
01:15:21To feel accompanied.
01:15:24And, what happened?
01:15:26No, no.
01:15:27You're out.
01:15:28You're out.
01:15:29You're out and we're out.
01:15:32We left.
01:15:35And at a minute,
01:15:36there was a sound,
01:15:38a disappointment,
01:15:40and a hit,
01:15:41and a hit.
01:15:45You're out.
01:15:46You're out.
01:15:47You're out.
01:15:48You're out.
01:15:49You're out.
01:15:50You're out.
01:15:51You're out.
01:15:52You're out.
01:15:53You're out.
01:15:54You're out.
01:15:55Ladies and gentlemen,
01:15:56may I ask the photographers to sit down, please?
01:15:58Quiet, please.
01:16:00Ladies and gentlemen,
01:16:01FIFA General Secretary,
01:16:03say,
01:16:04Platter will now open the media conference.
01:16:06Platter was not in a position to defend Maradona.
01:16:11He was not in a position to defend Maradona.
01:16:13He defended Maradona during weeks and weeks.
01:16:15He always said,
01:16:16our job is not to punish Maradona.
01:16:18Our job is to enable him to play football.
01:16:21But,
01:16:22once that he was tested positive,
01:16:24you know,
01:16:25it was a hopeless case.
01:16:26And I think,
01:16:27in this moment,
01:16:28Platter was standing firm.
01:16:29Both analyses of the urine sample have proved to be positive.
01:16:39The player,
01:16:40Diego Maradona,
01:16:41of the Argentinian national team,
01:16:43has therefore violated the provisions
01:16:46of the doping control regulations
01:16:49in the match Argentina-Migeria.
01:16:52I was not only sad,
01:16:54I was absolutely upset.
01:16:57But it was my job.
01:16:58It's also a lesson for my life.
01:17:07The Argentina Football Association
01:17:09has informed this morning
01:17:11the FIFA organizing committee
01:17:13that Diego Armando Maradona
01:17:15has been withdrawn from the World Cup.
01:17:18And until the case is finally settled,
01:17:21Diego Maradona remains suspended
01:17:23from all footballing activity.
01:17:26It's very difficult to approach
01:17:29to any speaker,
01:17:30to any speaker,
01:17:31to be able to capture the sound.
01:17:32I think we're going to have to do the translation.
01:17:34It's very, very difficult.
01:17:35We're in a very uncomfortable position.
01:17:37In Chacabuco and the United States,
01:17:42in the corner there was a bar.
01:17:44There were about 30 people.
01:17:46We were looking at the television
01:17:48because the positive was from Diego Maradona
01:17:50and nobody said one word.
01:17:54I always have that terrible image
01:17:57of 30 people without saying one word,
01:18:01seeing what we never wanted to see,
01:18:03because aparte it was the hell.
01:18:06When Diego says
01:18:11I want to be champion and dedicate the title
01:18:12to Fidel Castro,
01:18:13I think that there was...
01:18:14Yes, of course.
01:18:15There were many definitions.
01:18:16There were many definitions.
01:18:17There were many definitions.
01:18:19Many definitions.
01:18:20Many, many.
01:18:21Maradona was strong.
01:18:22And they were strong.
01:18:23They were strong.
01:18:24They were strong.
01:18:25They were strong.
01:18:26They were strong.
01:18:27They were strong.
01:18:28They were strong.
01:18:29And a lot of people only
01:18:54Digo de puta, la mujer que te parió.
01:19:01La gente con un vínculo más cercano a Diego fuimos a la habitación.
01:19:05Ahí estaba el llanto, ahí nos quedamos un ratito con Diego,
01:19:09que estaba desconsolado, obviamente, que estaba frustrado, impotente,
01:19:14porque incluso le exigieron que un jugador que está suspendido
01:19:20no podía estar en la concentración donde está su equipo.
01:19:24En el partido contra Bulgaria, lo primero que recuerdo
01:19:40es que hacía un calor que te derretías.
01:19:50Me acuerdo que los jugadores se arrastraban por la cancha,
01:19:52me acuerdo que no había ninguna reacción de nada,
01:19:56los jugadores hacían lo que podían.
01:19:58Uno podía inferir, tal vez es por el calor,
01:20:01no era el calor, era que estaban destruidos.
01:20:05Era como si les hubieran pegado un martillazo a cada uno en la cabeza
01:20:08y salieron a jugar atontados, completamente atontados.
01:20:12Aún queriendo ganar, no estábamos listos por todo lo que se había vivido.
01:20:28Jugás igual el partido y pensás, como siempre,
01:20:30sí, lo voy a ganar y todo eso, pero vos no estás listo,
01:20:33no estás preparado, algo te falta.
01:20:35Pagamos un resultado que obviamente no hubiese pasado y nunca ha sido.
01:20:49Si no hubiese pasado lo de Diego, de eso estoy seguro.
01:20:54¿Te drogaste?
01:21:07No, juro que con mi hija acá no me derrame.
01:21:12Pero le prometí a mi mujer que no iba a llorar.
01:21:17Y le prometí a mis hijas, por eso de todas las cosas,
01:21:19que no pude hablar.
01:21:20Pero lo único que quiero que quede claro a los argentinos
01:21:28es que no me drogué,
01:21:30que no corrí por la droga,
01:21:34que corrí por el corazón y por la camiseta.
01:21:37Nada más.
01:21:39La creencia esta, que dio positivo por cocaína,
01:21:43es errada.
01:21:46Y él se impuso a llegar al Mundial y ganarlo.
01:21:50Y cuando él se imponía algo,
01:21:54él lo hacía.
01:21:55La dejó, él, por voluntad propia.
01:21:59Cómo lo hacía, no sé.
01:22:00Cómo lo soportaba, no tengo idea, pero lo hizo.
01:22:03¿Te bancaron los dirigentes?
01:22:07Es un tema muy bravo, muy sucio.
01:22:13Yo quisiera creer en Avelanche, en Blatter, juro que quisiera creer,
01:22:24pero después del penal y después de esto,
01:22:26creo que me dejan sin poder hablar de ello.
01:22:32Ni bien, ni mal.
01:22:34Él atacó a FIFA porque fue finalmente desigualdado por él mismo,
01:22:41y estaba buscando quién es responsable.
01:22:43Y él dijo FIFA.
01:22:45Es fácil.
01:22:45Si yo llego a esta condición, no necesito drogarme para jugar.
01:22:52Si yo entreno, ¿cómo entreno?
01:22:54¿Qué necesidad tengo de buscar una droga?
01:22:56Decime.
01:22:57¿Qué necesidad tengo si tengo a Fernando, si tengo a todo?
01:23:00Y no, no quiero dramatizar,
01:23:04pero créeme que me cortaron las piernas.
01:23:15¿Qué es lo que hicieron?
01:23:19As the story unfolded,
01:23:22one thought,
01:23:23this is so unfair
01:23:24because he had kicked cocaine.
01:23:27He was back in the game
01:23:29and yet got done
01:23:30for a weight loss drug
01:23:33which contained
01:23:34a prohibited substance.
01:23:36So there was a kind of bitterness,
01:23:39there was a bitter tragedy
01:23:40within the tragedy
01:23:41that Diego had kind of
01:23:43inspired and charmed
01:23:45and bedazzled
01:23:46hundreds of millions of people
01:23:48over so many years
01:23:50and yet
01:23:50kind of like he tripped up
01:23:52on a pebble in the road.
01:24:09¡Viva la Romana!
01:24:15¡Ay, qué peligro!
01:24:16¡Viva la Romana!
01:24:22Sí fue brutal para él.
01:24:25Diego atrás con Claudio
01:24:26iban los dos
01:24:26abrazados
01:24:28porque era un momento
01:24:30de mucha tristeza,
01:24:32de mucha angustia
01:24:33iban los dos.
01:24:35¡Viva la Romana!
01:24:35¡Viva la Romana!
01:24:37¡Viva la Romana!
01:24:37¡Viva la Romana!
01:24:37¡Viva la Romana!
01:24:38¡Viva la Romana!
01:24:39¡Viva la Romana!
01:24:40¡Viva la Romana!
01:24:41¡Viva la Romana!
01:24:42¡Viva la Romana!
01:24:43¡Viva la Romana!
01:24:44¡Viva la Romana!
01:24:45¡Viva la Romana 3!
01:24:47¡Argentina 1!
01:24:48One.
01:24:50And then I said, well...
01:24:52I said, well, I said, well, listen,
01:24:54just to lament it,
01:24:56so much so that
01:24:58you still have to rest for the World of 98.
01:25:00So that...
01:25:02But then,
01:25:04the addiction had done a lot of damage,
01:25:06the instrumentalization,
01:25:08the brutal way
01:25:10in which they killed it,
01:25:12did the rest.
01:25:14And there was no way
01:25:16a remontar el vuelo.
01:25:18Ya le habían cortado las alas.
01:25:20Bueno, en el caso de él, las piernas, ¿no?
01:25:36Es que Maradona es un poco
01:25:38la metáfora de la Argentina.
01:25:40Es una persona con una capacidad
01:25:42de recuperación
01:25:44y de autodestrucción
01:25:46inigualada, y la Argentina es un poco eso.
01:25:48Es un país con una capacidad
01:25:50de recreación de sí misma,
01:25:52pero de autodestrucción inigualada,
01:25:54digamos, ¿no? Entonces,
01:25:56ahí es donde uno puede entender
01:25:58un poco el fenómeno Maradona.
01:26:00El fenómeno Maradona es un poco el fenómeno de la Argentina.
01:26:14El fenómeno Maradona
01:26:18Yo traté de ser feliz jugando al fútbol
01:26:20y hacerlo feliz a todos ustedes.
01:26:24Creo que lo logré
01:26:26y la verdad que hoy
01:26:28no me lo esperaba
01:26:30porque esto es demasiado.
01:26:32Demasiado para una persona,
01:26:34demasiado para un jugador de fútbol.
01:26:36Le agradezco con mi corazón.
01:26:38El fútbol es el deporte más lindo y más sano del mundo.
01:26:50Eso no le quepa la menor duda a nadie.
01:26:52Porque se equivoque uno,
01:26:54no tiene que pagar el fútbol.
01:26:56No, no tiene que pagar el fútbol.
01:26:58Yo la verdad que...
01:26:59Me pagué.
01:27:00Pero...
01:27:04La pelota no...
01:27:05La pelota no se va a echar.
01:27:10¡Adiós!
01:27:26La pelota no se va a echar.
01:27:56¡Adiós!
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