In the capital of Argentina, a house in which the legendary football player Diego Maradona, as a teenager, lived with his family, became a museum. His exposition – and this is about two thousand personal belongings of the player – sheds light for a little -known period of Maradona’s life, preceding his brilliant career.
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Maradona, who is now 55 years old, lived with his family in a two-story house in the Paternal area in the late 1970s, when he played for the Archentinos Huniors football club. Actually, the club provided this housing – an unprecedented case in itself – the family of a young talented football player as an additional bonus for a concluded contract, the first professional football contract of Maradona in life. The copy of the same agreement has now become one of the central exhibits of the museum. Here is a copy of the Cup won by Maradona in the Argentinean team at the World Cup in 1986. Nearby there are a lot of posters, newspaper cuts, photos. On one of them, for example, Diego sits on the steps of the porch, holding documents in his hands on the house. This achievement, as stated in the signature for the photo, dedicated Maradona to his father. Or, Diego and his brothers plays in the backyard in table tennis.
The museum itself belongs to the former coach of the Arkhatnino Huniors Alberto Peres. He had to spend several years on negotiations with a lady who settled in the house after the Maradona family, before he was able to buy him for $ 100,000. Then it took a few more years to repair, arrange the museum, the selection of exhibits, including furniture. The owner of the museum tried to restore the modest atmosphere of the apartment: a football player’s room, a kitchen, a living room. In Diego’s bedroom on the second floor there is a wooden bed with a blue glass blanket, a small desk, a lamp. On the walls, posters from sports magazines, on the floor are piles of musical records. In the living room, TV is constantly broadcasting the final match of the 1986 World Cup. But there was no toilet inside the house-it was equipped on the street, which, according to the coach, to some extent contributed to the hardening of Maradona. The museum works for free. And so far only on weekends.
By the way, the stadium of the football club Arkhatnino Huniors, located in the same area of Paternal, now bears the name Maradona. And the football player himself was awarded the title of Honorary Resident Buenos Aires.
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