El Pibe
Martin Amis dissects Diego Maradona’s autobiography:
El Diego is a transparent narrative, and you keep seeing in its interstices a startling inner chaos – acute and chronic flaws of character and judgment, and above all a self-knowledge that remains persistently absentee. When Maradona was 14 he fell under the sway of his first manager, an old mentor with the unencouraging name of Jorge Cyterszpiler. You can see it coming when, early on, Maradona boasts that they “handled everything on the basis of friendship, not a single piece of paper was signed”. Sure enough, when he arrives in Naples 10 years later he bewilderingly reveals that, “Cyterszpiler had had such bad luck with figures that I was down to zero”.
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