Yo Soy el Diego [Paperback]

Diego Armando Maradona (Author), Maradona (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 2000

La autobiografía de Maradona, el famoso jugador de futbol Argentino.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

The bittersweet memoir of soccer's most controversial and entertaining star, Maradona (born 1960), recounts his precipitous rise to fame and glory from humble origins in an Argentine shantytown. The book is remarkable not only for the inside look at some of the soccer world's most important events and figures of the last three decades but for the candid exploration of Maradona's polemical life off the field. His struggle with the immense pressure of fame studies once deemed him the most recognized public figure on the planet and his confrontation with the powers that be are all chronicled with a familiar and picaresque tone that illustrates his (often-flawed) profound humanity. Maradona's autobiography paints several often contradictory portraits: family man, creative genius, loyal friend, tragic hero, temperamental artist, man of the people, and rebellious child. The truth about Maradona lies in none of these incarnations but rather in the contradictory sum of his parts; he is ultimately an enigmatic yet sincere human being, a brazen child from the slums who suddenly found himself dining with popes and was unafraid to speak his mind. No matter is too delicate for Maradona's acerbic tongue: the discrimination endured by southern Italians in their homeland as perceived during his playing days in Naples, the corruption of the Catholic Church, his lifelong addiction to cocaine, and his strained relationship with the politicians and bureaucrats who have used him when convenient, among other issues. His is the defiant life story of one of the century's most brilliant and incisive athletes. Recommended for all public libraries and bookstores. Fernando Cwilich, New York

Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

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From the Publisher

The autobiography of Maradona.

Product Details

• Paperback: 319 pages
• Publisher: Planeta; 6th edition (2000)
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN-10: 8408036742
• ISBN-13: 978-8408036746
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #423,167 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An obligation for soccer fans, October 26, 2000

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A. Torres "atorres" (Bogota, D.C. Colombia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Yo Soy el Diego (Paperback)

This autobiography by Maradona, undoubtly one of the best soccer players in the world is really cautivating for anyone who loves soccer. He wrote it in this past months, during his treatment in Habana, Cuba. If you liked Maradona, like I did, you'll like him even more now, if you hated him like many people do, you'll maybe understand many of the problems he's had in his life. It is very interesting to see the human side of an idol and how he lived in the moments of glory and pain through out his wonderful career. Many untold stories are revealed and you can catch a glimpse of the world outside the stadium. Honestly a very good book, that every soccer fan should read, maybe more than once.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Truth about Diego's life from Diego's mouth, August 4, 2003

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Felipe - See all my reviews

This review is from: Yo Soy El Diego / I Am the Diego (Spanish Edition) (Paperback)

Don't expect to find in this book Diego's advice about not making the same mistakes he made, or Diego explicitly expressing his point of view about a specific topic/event in his life.
This book is the life of Maradona told By Maradona, it is simply the truth told with emotions and feelings about his life since he was little until he retired. You will find a detailed compendium/compilation of facts about Maradona's life/career, told the way Diego remembers and feels these happened.
You can feel his love and devotion for football when you read this book, because throughout his life all that surrounded Diego was football.

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A missing Chance to know the true...., January 24, 2001

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Pedro Peters (Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires Argentina) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Yo soy el Diego (Paperback)

I bougth this book with the hope to find the truth, as any "argentino" i fall in love with the talent of Maradona, he was my idol, but, with the time, his image begun to change. These book has a couple nice historys of Maradonas childhood, and his first steps in the difficult world of the soccer, but, doesnt have any autocritics, any clue of how this man, who was the best player ever fall in the hell of the drugs, and the multiple problems that he has. I love autobiographies, but in this book, Diego, never said why, or how, he loose all the things that he reached with his game. I also wanna see him say, things for the children, like,"don't do these stupid things..." but i can't find any appologies, or any advice for those who are in the same situacion of him. So, the book is good, has beautifull pictures reflecting his carreer, and so many histories of his parents house, and his childhood, but the feeling is that in all the problems that he has, always was the other part fault, for example, the coach of the Napoli, or the Pope, or the former coach of the national team of argentina, Daniel Passarella, Diego pass through all these chapters as a victim, for those who follow his history with devotion, its hard to believe those things... I also found a couple mistakes for the two journalists who helped Diego to wrote this book, im talking about Ernesto Cherquis Bialo and Daniel Arcucci, for example the gift that the Napoli gave to Diego for the very first Championship wasn't a Ferrari F40, it was a Testarrosa, or a couple photo epigraph, or a couple names. I hope Diego find a cure for himself, and reach the happiness some day, and i also hope some day, he write a new book, telling us all the things that don't say in this one.

Suerte Die.