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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