Family, fans, and players call out snub of football legend who was left out of the right-wing government’s list of “great lefties”.
Outside the field, Maradonna was a champion of many leftist causes and personalities. / Photo: Reuters Archive
Last week, during a press conference which coincided with International Left Handers Day, Milei’s spokesperson Manuel Adorni paid tributes to some of Argentina’s greatest left-handed and left-footed entertainers and athletes, including 2022 World Cup winners Lionel Messi and Ángel Di María. The more recent omission and feigned ignorance of one of the world’s best-known athletes is in line with the ‘anti-left’ politics of Milei, described as a ‘right-wing populist’ and ‘news agency noted that “Argentina’s new libertarian president” had “mocked late soccer icon Diego Maradona, and praised British former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, little loved in Argentina for her role in the 1982 Falklands War.
“Do I answer the muppet or not? Maybe I don’t even need to,” his daughter Dalma Maradona, an actress, was quoted as saying in response to the spokesperson’s insult of her father.
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