Ambassador to UK recounts how Diego’s death was experienced there | the Chronicle

The Argentine Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Javier Figueroa, said on Friday that in this country there are “admiration and respect” for Diego Armando Maradona, so that the repercussions of his death monopolized all the media and generated messages from several British officials.

“Almost all the media and the whole news cycle have been monopolized, monopolized, following the news”the Argentine diplomat told Telam Radio and said that “opaque” information on the coronavirus and internal debates to deal with the pandemic.

“There were also tweets from public figures, British politicians, former Labor opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn and the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, with a long message of condolences and admiration”, he remembered.

Figueroa noted that, like other embassies, London keeps the flag at half mast for the three days of national mourning before the star’s death and a banner was hung in front of the diplomatic headquarters in tribute to Maradona, where flowers and messages from the public were also received.

“It might perhaps draw attention to the fact that right here in the UK there is so much admiration and respect for the figure of Diego. And precisely because there is the memory of this wonderful match of the World Cup 86 which helped to create a myth “said the ambassador.

“Maradona himself said that more than beating a team, a country won and he obviously spoke about the conflict in the South Atlantic”recalled the diplomat in reference to the meeting during which the Argentina beat England four years after Falklands War.

On the other hand, the diplomat considered that “Beyond the indignation that there was here regarding the first goal, that of the hand of God, the second goal is universally recognized and here too as one of the most beautiful goals ever achieved in history”.

Figueroa He also spoke about the repercussions in the British media and highlighted the space devoted to the death of Maradona newspapers and magazines such as the Financial Times and The Economist, among others.