Maradona responded with an insult to a proposal to meet with Vladimir Putin

In life, Diego Armando Maradona was one of the most coveted athletes in the world. His performance on the field of play many times cataloged him as the best player of all time, and after his death he has remained so, because he is a benchmark for the Argentine National Team that won the world title in 1986 and was part of the list of his country in the orbital appointments of 1990 and 1994.

Outside of sports, the Argentine star also appeared, since it was during his time as a footballer that Maradona made a place for himself in the political sphere, in state meetings, with the country’s top leaders, and caused the attention of several high-ranking officials. who always saw the Argentine as a world reference.

Thus, under that concept and with the desire to know it, it was that during the 2018 World Cup in Russia, the president of this country, Vladimir Putin, who these days is in the news as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, decided to hold a meeting with the figure of world football, in addition to other great football names that accompanied an important meeting during the orbital event.

However, and although the meeting ended up taking place after various organizational problems, in the previous one it had a multiplicity of comments by Maradona for the Russian leader that, without a doubt, were recorded historically and are currently coming to light, due to to the world situation.

In the first place, Putin had scheduled a meeting with the Argentine in the morning hours in Russia, where the 2018 soccer world championship was taking place, however, the time of the meeting had an absolute refusal on the part of Maradona, who in a casual conversation showed his discontent in a particular way.

The audio was collected by Infobae and its reproduction reveals: “No, no, no. Everything about Putin is very good, everything is very nice, I want to meet him, I want to talk to him, ”says Maradona in the first place.

However, what generates an impression are the subsequent statements by Maradona, who assures that the meeting would not take place at the agreed time because it is too early for him: “I had two or three rehearsals already…’hello putin’, ‘What are you doing, Putin?’, ‘sos re-putín’…, ‘reputín del orto‘…, but I have to get up at 9:30… and I don’t get up at 9:30. I don’t get up… Did you see? I do not get up”.

Finally, the audio reveals what the Argentine expected as an invitation, and openly made the recommendations for the meeting and ruled that if it was under the conditions of the Russian politician, the meeting would not take place: “It hurts my soul because they are going to to be all… and who are you going to ask for ‘the fair‘? For me. He’s not going to ask about (Carles) Puyol, don’t fuck with me. But it’s a very early date that he made. He should have made a cocktail in the afternoon, after his activities. And so… of course he was going to wear a suit. Like this, no… no, not like this. I thank you. I thank Putin… but I’m not going tomorrow. He is determined.”