Diego Maradona Documentary Review

I know virtually nothing about soccer but I watch and review while I watch.

 

I speak about the human condition, psychology of sports fans as well as what sports means for a community and country.

 

Finished recording on 2/15/21

Show notes:

-I never heard of Maradona until he died

-Reviewing it in real time

And now the documentary

-80s soundtrack

-Pele, the movie Victory, and the bicycle kick

-Maradona and transcendance 

-Knee to the head

-Enduring quality about sports and art 

-Sports, art, and identity

-Napoli and rock star treatment

-Pressure

-Napoli is 0-4

-Soccer is brutal

-My grandfather, soccer, and passionate soccer fans

-Maradona’s style

-Psychology of sports fans

-Maradona persona

-Where Maradona is from and the Hero’s Journey

-The pressure on a 15 year old

-How soccer served him

-Mean soccer chants

-Racist soccer fans

-Reaction to Maradona

-Camorra

-Envious of people who speak multiple languages

-Striving for the World Cup

-Rise and fall

-The handball during Argentina vs. England

-Falklands War and symbolic revenge

-A clenched fist

-The sportscaster 

-The goal

-Argentina vs. West Germany (I don’t know who won this game)

-How does the crowd affect the player?

-Physical exhaustion

-Argentina takes the lead

-Argentina wins

-How sports affected me, then and now

-Back to projection plus a geopolitical narrative

-Muhammad Ali, sports, and politics

-Back to the effects of sports on people

-Sports compared to policy

-How sports can inspire

-Pancake?

-Admired to death

-Sports as a representation of ourselves

-Sports as a vehicle for Maradona

-Argentina's savior

-Gossip and attention

-Repercussions of attention

-"I want to play football in peace."

-The rise of Napoli in 1987

-His baby daughter

-League championship of 1987

-Back to teams, tribes, and identity 

-I don't know who's playing

-Still on the rise of Maradona in 1987

-Bittersweet Napoli victory?

-Proving the doubters wrong

-Like The Beatles

-Celebration for two months?

-Back to my grandfather

-Social redemption

-Not being left alone

-More than God and the pressure that comes with it

-Trappings of fame

-Celebrities, masks, and the pandemic

-Paparazzi and a vicious cycle

-Boundaries

-Substance abuse, fame, and the mafia

-Changing and the importance of environment

-Record player and blank VHS tapes

-Soccer balls must hurt

-Brain damage

-UEFA Cup of 1989

-"We are the best. We are on top of the world"

-We versus They

-"Sell Maradona" - Maradona as a commodity

-"He's the boss" (sarcasm)

-More partying

-"Cleanse" to play on Sunday

-Direction of the documentary

-Drug and alcohol spiral

-Diego Maradona Jr.

-Not showing weakness, toxic masculinity, and pressure

-Drug testing

-Money

-Needles in his back

-Sciatic, low back pain, and emotional causes

-Taking advantage

-His children

-Back to the mafia

-This documentary as a story

-Why this is well made

-Documentaries versus informercials

-Was he a target on the playing field?

-Napoli wins in 1990!

-A bunch of grown men dancing

-World Cup I, the Cup of the World

-I wish I was fluent in Italian

-Late 80s/early 90s styles

-Backlash

-Tension between northern and southern Italy

-I'm totally wrong - Maradona is playing for Argentina against Italy

-My limited understanding of penalty kicks

-Screaming hell

-Breaking his bond with Italians?

-I think I have the World Cup figured out

-Argentina wins and Italy is devastated

-Maradona's peak?

-What did Italians want Maradona to do?

-Equating a soccer loss to trauma

-It's more than a game, apparently

-Conspiracies

-No win situation

-Maradona is now the devil?

-Italian press

-I still think it's just a game but understand the anger

-How sports is intertwined with countries and people

-Maybe if people were better cared for...

-Wiretapping?

-Why don't they translate "ciao"?

-Prostitution

-1991

-His last ten years?

-Arrest

-Stigma

-Criticism regardless of image

-Another side of fame

-Camorra association

-Trial

-Mental pressure

-Napoli vs. Bari

-Anti-doping

-More possible criticism

-Disqualification

-The fall 

-Soccer and identity

-How does he cope?

-2004 flash forward

-Walking with a limp

-Psychiatric hospital

-Substance abuse, stigma, shame

-Difference between guilt and shame

-Transcendant star

-His life

-His two sides

-"Rebel, cheat, hero, and god"

-"All that survived was the myth"

-Gigantic mural

-Coaching

-Waddling

-After 2004

-Post-credits

-Acknowledging Diego Maradona Jr.

-2016

-Encyclopedia Brittanica

-Top player of the 20th century

-Post 2008

-Coaching career

-My review and wish

-Human condition

-A different way to podcast

-Links!

-We're in a pandemic

-How I spend my time

-Vaccines are here

-Wearing masks, social distancing, washing hands

-Get information from credible sources (BBC, NPR, Washington Post, New York Times, USA Today, etc.). Knowledge is power

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