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Argentina and Maradona mourn Silvio Marzolini: he was a hero, player and coach

The Argentine Football Association, many clubs and football legends, have mourned the death of the Abelite player and former Boca Juniors Silvio Marzolini, who died at the age of 79 as a result of a disease in the vessels of the brain.

Maradona wrote through his personal account on “Instagram”, “In 1981, by Marzolini, many of Boca’s youth achieved our only Olympic breakthrough for us … I was a wonderful person, a hero as a player and as a coach … Thanks Silvio, rest in peace”, and he Marzolini played for the Argentine national team in the 1962 World Cup in Chile and 1966 in England.

Meanwhile, the Argentine Football Association wrote on Twitter, “Deep pain … The federation mourns the death of Silvio Marzolini, the glory of Argentine football, who was able to defend the colors of Boca and Argentina.”

As described by the Boca Juniors Club as a player and coach as a “historical symbol” of the club, Marzolini began his career in the Club of Vero in 1959 and moved the following year to Boca Juniors, who played for him until 1972, and won with him six championships. As a coach, he won the league with Boca in 1981 when Diego Maradona was on the team.

It is noteworthy that at the end of last June, Maradona, the legendary player for Argentina, had recalled their victory in the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, addressing the players of the team that he was very proud of.

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Maradona, through his Instagram account, posted pictures of the team player, commenting: “Every time I remember the championship I don’t have much, but this is the most important of all. The best is to publish a picture with the boys, a picture with the team, so I asked that something be prepared from This is the same for me, for all my colleagues, I say they are bigger every day and I am very proud of them. “

The International Football Federation celebrated the memory of Argentina’s victory in the 1986 World Cup, which was playing in Mexico, where the legendary star Maradona raised the World Cup for the second time to his country.

FIFA wrote via his Twitter account: “On this day the 1986 World Cup in Mexico on the Azteca Stadium, the legendary star raised the cup of the copy in which the most prominent star was and this iconic snapshot.”

And won the copy of the World Cup 1986 Argentina, after defeating West Germany, 3/2, for the Argentine team to win the championship for the second time in its history, and that tournament witnessed Maradona scored a goal in his hand against the England team, as the date of that match dates to the World Cup in the 1986 championship in Mexico, Where England succeeded in occupying the Group Six summit by beating Portugal, drawing with Morocco and defeating Poland, before it achieved a landslide victory over Paraguay 3-0 .. in the face of the quarter-finals in Mexico City and England collided with the Argentine team in the quarter-finals, amid the atmosphere Politically strained by the Falkland Islands war.

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