The Scania that belonged to Maradona has a new owner. (Photo: Motor1)
Year 1997. Diego Maradona He was going through his final weeks as a professional footballer. Social media didn’t exist yet. the Ten managed to be popular topic. In that second semester the 1997 Apertura Tournament was played, which Boca Juniors fought to the end with River Plate, and lost by one point. With the best footballer in history in his orbit, there wasn’t a single day in Boca World’s daily life that wasn’t upset. But October 15 was marked by a great eccentricity: it was the day a Scania truck appeared at Xeneize’s training.
And at the wheel of the mass was Maradona himself, just 10 days after what would have been his farewell to football. “Did you see what a nice car! Now it will be difficult for me to take notes: no journalist will be able to hang up ”, Diez commented to the friends with whom he shared lunch at the headquarters of the Workers’ Union, in Ezeiza, where Boca was formed, directed by Hector Rodolfo Veira. Diego had two Scania 113H 360 HP Top Line. There is one that has reappeared.
Diego Maradona at the wheel of the Scania in 1997.
Of the two units, it is believed that one is kept in a shed in Ezeiza, by the local municipality led by the Granados family, who came to establish an excellent relationship with the Diez when they lived in the area. The other is owned by a transporter from Capilla del Señor, who exhibited it at an event held last weekend..
Diego Maradona’s incredible Scania
Diego said goodbye to football on October 25, 1997. It is in Superclásico that Boca wins 2-1: it loses 1-0 with a goal from Sergio Berti, and turns the situation around in the second half with goals from Julio Toresani and Martín Palermo. Maradona, who came physically with just enough for that match, was replaced at half-time by Juan Roman riquelme. In any case, once Horacio Elizondo blew the final whistle, he went to the visiting gallery to celebrate and gave rise to an iconic image of sexual representation with the right index finger crossing the circle formed by the index. and from the left thumb. And then he released: “River’s panties fell off”.
They used it in Capilla del Señor to drift. (Photo: Motor1)
when he appeared with Scania in training it was the week before the match against Colón, on the ninth round. Diego did not play. The same was news all those days. On Monday 13 he arrived at the SEC in a porsche. Tuesday, in a Mitsubishi Soccer player. And on Wednesday the 15th he broke in with the truck, with William Coppola at his side.
The chronicles tell of those days when the monster could not enter the property: it had been extinguished a hundred meters earlier, so Maradona had to enter on foot. They called the mechanical helpers (his name was Pablo), solved the problem (they had filled the diesel in the wrong tank) and put it in the parking lot so that the Ten could then leave: this is the image that has traveled the world.
It doesn’t serve much but is a little ruined. (Photo: Motor1)
Diego had two trucks and both were blue.. He had promised to equip them and make them available to the Sun Without Drugs campaign, launched by Carlos Menem’s government and of which Maradona was a part. He bought the first one with his money: he had an AZM 765 patent, which over time has been developed and painted black.
The other was approached by the LoJack company precisely because the first failed. The plate, AVP 115. It did not have the fame of the first, which became known all over the world because the image of Maradona driving a truck went around the planet, but the owner has proof that it is part of Diego’s Scania Top Line.
The new owner of the ten trucks
Juan Carlos Rodriguez is 57 years old., four less than Diego would have had today. He is a transport trader based in Exaltación de la Cruz, where he is a partner of the Agro Cereales Capilla company. In that same city last weekend the Drift Mode took place, an event reserved for lovers of pirouettes at the wheel. Y Rodríguez took the Scania there for a specialist driver to drift it on a test track.
The last official match of Maradona. In the early days he showed up with the truck.
This Scania 113H 360 HP Top Line has little use. Until 2010 it belonged to Transportes Mangone, who sold it for almost 300,000 pesos. Now, the owner is Rodríguez. The truck driver claims that the mole It has “just 20 thousand kilometers”. Before acquiring it, he explained, “he had been out in the open for a long time in Ushuaia and was not well cared for.”
“Now we will take care of it,” Rodríguez explains. He bought it when Diego was still alive and, as he told the Motor1 portal, he tried unsuccessfully on several occasions to contact Maradonathrough his lawyer Matías Morla.
And he approved: “In the original documentation of the truck it appears that it belonged to Diego Maradona Producciones and, since we bought it, we have tried several times to reunite Diego with his truck ”.
Another eccentricity of Diego: in 2018 he appeared in Belarus in a monstrous 4×4. (AFP)
The owner of the Scania testifies to this magnetism that the truck causes in people when they see that it belonged to Maradona, a similar (attenuated, of course) phenomenon that Ten himself had. “It’s a truck that generates a lot of excitement and good vibes. People go crazy when they see it. Diego was a true idol. He gave the Argentines a lot of joy and left us the best memories ”, he underlined.
As a carrier, you currently suffer from the problems common to those who work in the sector: shortage of diesel, skyrocketing spare parts, insecurity … “I am a carrier and I love trucks. We have more than 50 trucks in our company’s fleet. But I got tired of giving up the country and slowly got rid of everyone. But I don’t sell Scania”, He clarified.
A Ferrari that Diego drove in those last years in Boca.
It is logical what Juan Carlos Rodríguez feels. He has a part of the history of the most important footballer. The fact that as Pelusa was presented in the late 1970s with a Fiat 128the first car he had as a player, to finish his career behind the wheel of a truck in the late 90s. Diego Maradona has always been bigger …
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