Maradona in Mexico

Now for the Diego Maradona show.

He's just been sent off.

Diego!

It's the Maradona show.

He's been sent off.

Olé, olé, olé, olé, Diego, Diego

This is bad.

I told the fourth official

that there was an elbow to the head.

His head could have been split open!

San Luis' coach told me to shut up.

I said, "Really?

Do you know how many games I've played?

And you?

You have to show your ID to get into your own house, son of a bitch!"

I'm a good man,

and I want to improve football...

...for the good of the people.

But I'm not perfect.

Nobody's perfect.

Sometimes I'm confronted by things...

...that I don't understand.

But I'm not scared of anything in football.

A NETFLIX ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY SERIES

He achieved glory in Aztec lands

And made Argentina win the World Cup

Because his hand made history Like his hand lifting a trophy

Many people haven't forgotten your past

But now it's time To tell a different story

I have forgiven you for your mistake

It's a source of pride That you're in Sinaloa

And Diego arrived, and Diego arrived

He arrived to brighten up football

And Maradona arrived, he arrived

And Maradona arrived, he arrived

11 WEEKS EARLIER

This is Maxiradio 113.3. Welcome.

Today we're discussing the unthinkable.

Diego Maradona is the new coach of Dorados de Sinaloa.

Diego Armando Maradona!

He's coming to Culiacán, to Sinaloa.

He's taking on a team

at the bottom of the league, with an unfinished stadium.

The fans are unhappy and no longer go to games.

-Maradona in Culiacán? -Brace yourself. This will be interesting.

Maradona's dribbling, followed by two players.

He goes right, the football genius.

He tries to pass it to Burruchaga,

but Maradona keeps it! The genius!

I remember that Diego's lawyer said,

"I'm confident about it.

Can you start picturing this?

Could this work at Dorados?"

When he says "Diego Armando"...

First it's just "boom." Then you think, "Holy shit."

Valdano to Maradona!

The goalkeeper moves forward. There it is. Diego shoots! Goal!

My mind goes into overdrive.

Zipping through problems.

Argentina is the world champion!

Argentina...

I start imagining Diego here.

What would it mean to have him here?

He traded one addiction for another, from cocaine to alcohol.

Diego, I love you.

The most recent news about Diego was the fuss at the World Cup.

For 30 seconds, my mind went on an intergalactic journey.

I replied: "If there is a club president

with the courage to take this on, it's me."

President...

Here I come.

The Maradona revolution begins,

and I need you beside me.

Here we go. Excuse us.

That's right!

I remember when he arrived at the airport,

I was worried about how to approach him. What will he think of me?

Will he like me or not?

What does he like or not like?

The airport had never seen such a media scrum.

It was...

...overwhelming. It was crazy.

Totally crazy.

Maradona was greeted like a rock star on his arrival at the Culiacán airport.

Sinaloa is the drug capital of Mexico,

but the superstar says he'll be concentrating on football.

The aim of our project

is to win promotion to the first division.

He's going to the home of the biggest drug cartel in Mexico.

Alejo will tell us more. I can't explain this.

It's confirmed. Diego has arrived at Dorados de Sinaloa.

Maradona is coming to Culiacán,

with the cartels, the drugs.

-Drug trafficking. -That's what people will talk about.

Believe me.

Let's take this call.

A question for Dorados.

How will the club control the volatile behavior of Mr. Maradona?

In particular, his cocaine addiction?

It's like taking a diabetic to a candy shop.

Before the arrival of Maradona,

the biggest news out of Sinaloa was the escape of "El Chapo" Guzmán.

When you travel, that's what people reference.

"That's a violent place."

"How do you manage to live there?"

I can't help the fact that El Chapo was born here.

What I can change...

is that we won't be judged by what he's done anymore.

Diego, a picture.

With you at Dorados, we can't lose.

The official introduction of No. 10, Diego Armando Maradona,

as the coach of Dorados de Sinaloa.

We support Dorados and we can't lose.

Hello. Good afternoon.

It's a pleasure to welcome you all.

At Dorados we're always looking to write a new chapter.

A new chapter that would take us to new heights.

Today we are doing just that.

I have come to give my all.

If we have the support of the fans,

plus the morale boost I'll give the players...

we'll be hard to beat.

We're gonna be hard to beat.

BANORTE STADIUM, CULIACÁN

I had just woken up.

I looked at my phone and it was full of messages, calls,

social media posts, that said Diego was coming.

We couldn't believe it was possible.

We all know Diego Armando Maradona and what he means to football.

We doubted he even knew where Dorados was.

I'm proud to be here,

to be here with them.

To give them the morale boost they need

to get better every day.

We don't have any virtuosos here.

They're all regular players, great players,

who are working with a good attitude.

So I'm happy with that.

I've known Diego since 1983 or 1984 as a football player.

We played together for Argentina...

in World Cups.

Later we played on opposing teams.

The first thing we did when we got here

was to work on tactics.

We could see there were problems, things we didn't understand or like.

I'd watched videos of their earlier games.

Da Silva is through. He shoots, goal!

There is a cross, and he shoots. Goal!

Hachen scored!

He crosses over, shoots, goal!

It was no surprise they were at the bottom of the second division.

There is a cross, and he shoots. Goal!

To attack, the defense has to get in position.

After some long discussions with Diego,

we agreed that the team was unorganized.

But with hard work and our vision,

we knew we could get better.

There was no reason that we couldn't make it to the playoffs.

Good! Damn, that was good.