Imprint: Yellow Jersey
Published: 06/10/2005
ISBN: 9780224071901
Length: 320 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 22mm x 129mm
Weight: 270g
RRP: £12.99
'Operatically emotional...exceptionally vivid' Martin Amis, Guardian
Celebrate the life of one of the world's greatest footballers.
Diego Maradona. One thing is certain: he was the greatest footballer of his generation - and perhaps of all time. A poor boy from a Buenos Aires shanty-town, his genius with a ball took him to the heights of European and world football, and his struggle with the pressures of life inside and outside the game pulled him right back down again.
Following his sad passing, read the true story of Maradona's life in his own words.
'A revealing autobiography of a footballing genius' Sunday Times
Imprint: Yellow Jersey
Published: 06/10/2005
ISBN: 9780224071901
Length: 320 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 22mm x 129mm
Weight: 270g
RRP: £12.99
This is an operatically emotional book, and also an exceptionally vivid one
A revealing autobiography of a footballing genius
El Diego illustrates the man's simple, unadulterated love for the game, for the pure unsullied act of taking a football and making it dance to his exuberant tunes. It's a love story, without a happy ending, stopping when he walks off the pitch for the last time
It is the autobiography of a footballer, not a celebrity who played football - Maradona's is a turbulent love story about his passion for the game
Let's say it now, the real reason you want to read a book written by Diego Maradona is to see whether a genius who could skip past every assailant on the planet (except the ones with a wrap of coke) can actually hold a pen, let alone string a sentence together. Thankfully he can.