Diego Maradona: mito, héroe, símbolo de la subalternidad

ALABARCES, PABLO

Eracle. Journal of Sport and Social Sciences

Dipartimento di Scienze Sociali Federico II

Lugar: Napoli; Año: 2022 vol. 2 p. 3 - 14

The death of Argentine football player Diego Maradona on November 25, 2020 caused hugemanifestations of public pain. At the same time, it unleashed intense journalistic coverage,which abused words such as myth, symbol, hero, idol and identity. The key question revolvedaround how far Maradona, an unrivaled athlete and simultaneously a conflictive public figure,for his personal conduct (including sports convictions and criminal cases for drug use) and forhis political positions linked to left-wing populism, it could be considered a symbol of apresumed national identity. The work proposes to work on these categories, in the context ofthree decades of research on the relationship between sport and identities, as well as in relationto some hypotheses about subaltern voices in the contemporary scene.