Argentine football legend Diego Maradona, who had just turned 60, died on Wednesday from a heart attack in the suburbs of Buenos Aires. Michel Mézy, former coach of Nîmes Olympique and Montpellier, talks about “the death of a god, the death of a football god. For me, the best player is Pelé. But after, Maradona, it was something incredible. He knew how to do everything with a magic left foot.”
“It’s a very heavy loss for football, adds Michel Mézy, and for the Argentines it will be dramatic: he brought them the World Cup, beating England with the hand of God. “On June 22, 1986, for the World Cup quarter-final in Mexico City at Aztec stadium, Diego Maradona overthrows England alone, with a goal scored by dribbling half of the opposing team and another “marred” by a hand fault. “Lhe world of world football can only cry for a person like that “
‘You go to the depths of Africa or Vietnam, you will always have someone who will tell you about Maradona, because he is one of the elected people “Michel Mézy, at the microphone France Bleu Gard Lozère
