El Diego: The Autobiography of the World's Greatest Footballer

Diego Armando Maradona, Daniel Arcucci & Ernesto Cherquis Bialo (Authors); Marcela Mora Y Araujo (Translated From the Spanish by)

ISBN 10: 0224071890 / ISBN 13: 9780224071895

Published by Yellow Jersey Press, London, 2004

About this Item

302 pp. A rare, hard-to-find, out-of-print, scarce, true collectible gem! A wonderful copy! A great, almost spotlessly clean copy and dust jacket! Solidly and tightly bound, essentially and nearly flawless copy and dust jacket with minimal internal and external wear and use. Copy with crisp pages, spotlessly clean text, and light shelf wear. Smooth covers. Dust jacket shows minimal, minor or light wear around edges.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: El Diego: The Autobiography of the World's Greatest Footballer
• Publisher: Yellow Jersey Press, London
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0224071890
• ISBN 13: 9780224071895
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Gabriel Piko (Front Cover)
• Edition: Copyright © Diego Armando Maradona 2000/
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Memoirs, Literary Studies
  • Sports, General & Competitive Sports
  • Biography, Autobiography

About this title

Synopsis

Sometimes I think that my whole life is on film, that my whole life is in print. But it's not like that, there are things which are only in my heart - that no one knows. At last I have decided to tell everything Diego Armando Maradona needs little introduction. A poor boy from a Buenos Aires shanty-town, his genius with a ball took him to the heights of European and World football, and his struggle with the pressures of life inside and outside the game pulled him right back down again. Hero or villain, one thing is certain: he was the greatest footballer of his generation - and perhaps of all time. Never before has Maradona given us his extraordinary story in his own words. Until now. From his poverty-stricken origins to his greatest glories, Maradona recounts, with astonishing frankness, and brilliant footballing insight, the pivotal moments of a legendary life - the pressures of being a child prodigy, that game against England in the 1986 World Cup, an incredible achievement and the dream turned sour at Napoli, and the shame and disgrace of USA 1994. We see inside the mind of one of the most controversial and complex sportsmen of our times - a man torn between the demands of corp

About the Author

Translator Marcela Mora Y Araujo works as a journalist, writer and producer specializing in Argentinean football.