Lionel Messi Pays Tribute To Diego Maradona In Stunning Fashion!
The Barcelona great paid tribute to his former manager and friend. The two have been comparable for years and years now.
Lionel Messi Pays Tribute To Diego Maradona In Stunning Fashion! Barcelona thrashed Osasauna 4-0 yesterday afternoon.
Lionel Messi scored his first league goal in open play in the 4-0 rout. His goal was eerily similar to a goal Diego Maradona scored while playing in Argentina for Newell’s Old Boys.
Messi’s tribute was an old school Newell’s Old Boys shirt with the number 10 on it. This is an old Diego Maradona shirt.
A moment for eternity. pic.twitter.com/nZt2LLfg1r
— FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona) November 29, 2020
Across Europe’s top 5 leagues, a minute’s applause was held at the beginning on each game to commemorate the life of the Argentine legend.
Maradona’s old team’s Napoli, Barcelona and Seville all had his old regalia littered across their respective stadiums.
On Thursday in the Europa League, all of Napoli’s players wore the number 10 shirt with Maradona written on the back. The streets of Naples saw over 100 000 people in streets.
This broke the Italian lockdown restrictions in the city but the people didn’t care as they chanted “DIEGO!” throughout the night.
On his funeral, over a million people turned out in the streets of Buenos Aires to pay their last respects to an icon considered their god.
Commemorations of Diego Maradona are still on-going as the world of football reels his untimely death.
Lionel Messi Pays Tribute To Diego Maradona In Stunning Fashion!
