The series “Maradona, Blessed Dream”, broadcast on Amazon Prime, recounts the life of Diego Armando Maradona from his first steps as a youth to his consecration as a world star. One of the chapters has aroused some controversy among Lazio fans because the protagonist comments a few words about the Italian team. He goes on to say that “These Lazio fascists want to humiliate me.”
Faced with the commotion, Lazio has issued a press release affirming of “ridiculous those few seconds that we have seen, in which in a completely arbitrary and improbable way they are attributed “. to the words of the Argentine champion who would never have said: ‘Those fascists want to humiliate us.’ We will enforce our rights over Amazon Prime and before the authors, the director and the screenwriters , asking as far as we are concerned that a scene as unlikely as it is painful, which lacks respect for Lazio and the memory of a great champion. “
Add the statement: “Lazio at that time was not in the ideal conditions to stop a team that fought for the Scudetto. And much less humiliate it. And then the reference to fascism, all the more hateful because it is evoked with a clear defamatory intention “. The Italian team wants it to be the public judges the quality of the series “Maradona, Sueño Bendito”. Finally, Lazio made it clear that Maradona himself has always had a good relationship with them where he was invited to Formello, sang their anthem and even exchanged shirts with several of their players.
