After runs in Naples and Tel Aviv, the “Diego Vive” (“Diego Lives” in English) exhibition will proceed for the following two months within the Spanish metropolis where Maradona spent two unhappy, pains-marred, seasons within the early 1980s at FC Barcelona.
AFP
09 October, 2024, 10:00 am
Final modified: 09 October, 2024, 10:02 am
Argentina football yarn Diego Maradona involves lifestyles in an immersive mark underway in Barcelona, that encompasses a hologram of the behind player and a reconstruction of his childhood dwelling.
After runs in Naples and Tel Aviv, the “Diego Vive” (“Diego Lives” in English) exhibition will proceed for the following two months within the Spanish metropolis where Maradona spent two unhappy, pains-marred, seasons within the early 1980s at FC Barcelona.
Friends are greeted to the exhibition, spread over 2,000 square metres (21,5000 square feet) in central Barcelona, by a hologram of a younger Maradona decked out in a Boca Juniors jersey, the club with which he acquired his fully Argentine league title.
They would also additionally take a penalty kick within the form of the player or non-public their photo taken recreating his notorious purpose correct through Argentina’s 2-1 procure over England within the quarter finals of the 1986 World Cup in Mexico.
Maradona thumped within the purpose with a raised fist, which he latter dubbed as being scored by the “Hand of God”.
“When that it is possible you’ll also be here you feel any other time that Diego is subsequent to you, and that is the premise, to feel him,” stated Avelino Tamargo, one among the creators of this travelling exhibition. It is miles backed by relatives of the player who died in 2020 susceptible 60 whereas getting better from mind surgical operation for a blood clot after a protracted time of scuffling with addictions to medications and alcohol.
The exhibition also parts a preference of shots, an immersive video display that tells his lifestyles story and a reconstruction of his childhood dwelling within the Villa Fiorito shanty metropolis on the outskirts of Buenos Aires where he grew up, the fifth of eight youngsters.
“For me Maradona used to be the hero of my childhood, the hero of my complete generation,” stated Tamargo.
A court in Argentina final week approved the transfer of Maradona’s stays, at his daughter’s ask, from a cemetery to a mausoleum to be built for him in central Buenos Aires.
In his fatherland he’s broadly regarded as the realm’s ultimate footballer and has acquired the iconic online page online of fellow Argentines Che Guevara and Eva Peron.
