The story of Diego Armando Maradona in the Argentine national team he had an exclusive protagonist who changed course. It is that goal of Martino Palermo in the rainy night of the Monumental stadium against Peru, at the last minute of the game, he brought the missing soccer star to bring the Albiceleste to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, when the panorama seemed very complicated. This Tuesday, the Titan burst into tears as he recalled an anecdote that described, once again, those spontaneous apparitions for which the Ten is so remembered and loved by those who have shared time with him.
“When I was having a hard time with my son dying, he appeared in the hospital. He was with me and those things were not forgotten. He was there when I needed him sometimes, when sometimes you need that person to be by your side, ”Palermo recalled, during an interview with Radio La Red, which soon began to be replicated on social media.
“Even though he wasn’t my friend, he was that person who made me feel the passion,” he added and also unlocked a memory of Maradona’s doping suspension during the 1994 World Cup in the United States.
In ’94, when the United States happened, I was with my girlfriend. When she said ‘they cut off my legs’, I watched TV and it was like love at first sight. I started to cry. My girlfriend tells me ‘Is that why you cry?’ and deep inside I thought that she didn’t know what Diego meant to me. Time has led me to meet him, to share things with him. You led me to finish my football career by playing a World Cup at the age of 36. And there’s nothing that makes me forget it, “he said.
The complete interview with Palermo
Source: Clarin
