The scugnizzo of Lanús is capable of inventions that perhaps even Pelé’s measure forbade, morphologically irregular only in his flat feet, which are nonetheless perfectly functional in their footballing tasks.

Maradona is a divine anomaly, magical, perverse: a jongleur of pure calluses that blaze with fierce poetry and astonishment. He is a natural nonconformist, a rebel in spirit against any constraint, be it morphological or social.

He must find his personal war to give his best, and perhaps this is his only limitation, but at the same time, his greatest strength.