"I was very young, I wanted to learn and I was learning from the best." Gianfranco Zola reflects on playing for Napoli with Diego Maradona. 💫 Stream every Serie A match live on Paramount+: www.paramountp...
Napoli were so fortunate that maradona picked them to play for, when he could of played for anyone He wanted a team that loved him, and that reminded him of his homeland, and he got it at napoli, and without maradona no one would ever of heard of napoli as a team. Seria A was big back then, as maradona went there and everyone wanted to go there with him The strength of italian teams back then was amazing
To Zola's point, it just wasn't Maradona: The entire league was HUGE back then. The quality of players in Serie A from 1983 through 2008 was astounding. The competition was beyond top level. We'll never see it again.
He’s right ….a lot of people seem to forget easily. It’s Messi this or Messi that ….but let me tell you this Messi wouldn’t do what Diego…..go to a small team and make them Champions against the mighty & Corrupt teams from the north in the Best competition in the world. Also the conditions….Messi never played on a bad pitch his whole life…..Messi never played on a poor constructed team….Messi never played with Bad & average players Pls stop the BS ….just let this sink in and be honest with yourself It’s Diego by a landslide
Lo que dice Zola era una parte de Diego : lograba motorizar a todo el equipo, conseguía lo mejor de todos los jugadores ... Ese es el trabajo de un LIDER ... Algo que Messi, no posee ... 🤷🇦🇷
@@elainemclachlan2067 Si me permites una observación : Messi, Zidane, todos los Ronaldo, Cruyff, incluso Neymar ... TODOS ellos son de 1° clase, JUGADORAZOS ... Pero hubo solo 2 que NADIE imaginaba que harían ... y siempre salían airosos ... Uno fue O Reí, PELE ... el otro, fue D10S, DIEGO ... ☝️😎🇦🇷
Defensive players need some recognition when it comes to best ever....for me it would have to be Maldini or Beckenbauer. Mentions going out to Baresi and Rio as well.
For people that do not understand, if you combined zidane and messi, you got maradona Zidane had something messi did not have Messi had something zidane did not have But maradona had what both these players had, as if they were combined into one, you got maradona People today have no idea how much teams just feared maradona back then, if you want to know. See brazil argentina goal from 1990 world cup, when maradona got the ball, all the brazil players ran towards maradona trying to stop him, he ran forward and passed to canniga to put the ball into the net to beat brazil. All down to brazils fear of maradona, the only player brazil has ever feared playing, even with all the voodoo druggies in brazil. If your team had 10 decent players, plus maradona, you had a chance to win, and thats what argentina did in 1986 where maradona was practically only player ever to win world cup by himself. It was maradona and 10 other players against all other teams, and although they tried, no one could stop him.
No Andy ... El equipo argentino de 1986, fue un EQUIPAZO : el arquero Pumpido ( Argentina ) NUNCA TUVO un mano a mano con un delantero contrario ... Todos los partidos fueron liquidados en 90', no hubo penales y tampoco expulsados ... Ocurre que, en ese equipo, estaba Diego " a pleno rendimiento " ... Y ocurrió lo que debía ocurrir ... En cuanto al mundial '90, Diego jugo los últimos 4 partidos, con su tobillo " a la miseria " ...
@@alspez8979 certo Alessandro il mio inglese è pessimo per cui ho scritto che non ha giocato affatto e poi ho scritto che dopo pochi minuti di gioco l'arbitro lo ha espulso...non ricordavo quanti minuti avesse giocato. Quel mondiale è uno dei miei primi ricordi dell'infanzia
Exactly coz Messi had it laid out all perfectly for him. While Diego was fighting the elements No one touches Diego in my book and I’m sure the ones who grew up with him agree with me
@@mariovh and Messi didnt his tem to first EVER league wins and first ever Europe cup and singlehanded WC and WC runners up...Messi not even in top 10 he is garbage
@@donramonramirez5141 Only thing stupid here is you don't know how to reply to people with their tag, not in correct language either, cómo puedo siquiera entender lo que dices?
A lenda mágica, o sagrado Diego Armando Maradona, o maior, melhor e melhor jogador do mundo e da história, absolutamente sem paralelo no mundo e na história. 👍♥