EL DIEGO - the autobiography of the world's greatest footballer.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1.Translated by Marcela Mora Y Araujo. Originally and first published by Editorial Planeta Argentina S.A.I.C.] FINE+/FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt,subject's biographical colour photographic illustrated dw/dj panels, with white,yellow and blue lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges very lightly aged/toned but generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,would appear unread - apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, original plain white cloth(?) boards with bright,crisp, blocked black ink letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain black endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,x-xviipp+2-302pp [paginated] includes translator's introduction,reader's note,13 chapters,32pp contemporary b/w (the majority) +colour autobiographical photographs in 2 blocks of 16pp apiece,between pp78/9 (half+half) and pp206/7 (all b/w),an appendix: titles,prizes and awards and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication pages(2pp),and a contents list/table.
Diego Armando Maradona needs little introduction. A poor boy from a Buenos Aries 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 gane 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 corporate club bosses,the fans,the media,and his own tempestuous personal life.
As we follow each of Maradona's triumphs and despairs, deaths and resurrections,the man behind the madness is revealed - 'El Diego' is a confessional,a revelation,an apology and a celebration.
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