Diego Armando Maradona played in two stages in a Boca Juniors from which he ended up retiring in 1997. At the Xeneize club he coincided with Mauricio Macri, then president of the entity and who in the last few hours has made some controversial statements in ‘La Fábrica del Podcast’ about the former legend of Argentine and world football.
“I had a very traumatic coexistence,” he says, remembering when Maradona missed five consecutive penalties in 1996: “He was so bad with his addictions that the guy could no longer take even a penalty.” Furthermore, he claims that Diego made him a request, to which Macri flatly refused: “He wanted to be a coach and I told him no, because he was not in a position to do so.”
Regarding how he managed those situations, Macri was forceful. “I never got angry, because he was treated like a God and it is impossible that he did not have those attitudes with all the encouragement he received. Once he even told me that he was ‘between God and men,'” he said. “I dreamed of him being the technical director of the team, but first I had to take care of his little problem and solve it, because I couldn’t guarantee where he would wake up the next day.” “I came to training, but I missed four.”
