Cio Fueira a Maradona,

This is Jacobin Radio, I'm Susie Wisman.

Today we're going to join the world in paying tribute to Diego Maradona, the brilliant

footballista who always spoke truth to power. Alan Minsky and Melissa Figueroa, of the People's Game as well as this program

bring their insights and appreciation of Marodona the soccer legend who died

earlier this week at just 60 years old.

I'm going to turn over this part of the broadcast to our producers and so much more.

Alan Minsky, who is also executive director of the Progressive Democrats of America and

Melissa Figueroa PhD student writer activists and everything else both of them are the hosts of the Quadrennial People's Game, the really incredible political

look and football appreciation of that amazing game. And you can look at their podcast and listen to it at

the People's Game.org and they are going to now take it away and pay tribute and

give their own analysis of the soccer legend Diego Marodona. Diego Armando Mondo Meredithona died this week and I think it's just a very

intense moment in a very intense time. Of course there's no shortage of

memes everybody is no doubt listening to that is familiar about how wretched a year

2020 has been. I believe Diego Maraudona occupied a unique place in the world's culture,

certainly since the passing of Muhammad Ali. And with his passing, I think we, the morning that is going on around the world and the tributes that are pouring in to Maradonna speak as much to, you know, not just how fantastic a football player he was which of course is part

and parcel of everything relating to Maradonna but also to a time when a mythological figures sort of operated in a way around the world that I'm not quite sure is possible today in the age of the internet, in the age of globalized capitalism.

The mythology that was built up around Meridoni,

even though of course he was a tremendously public figure

for actually over four decades throughout his life. He did occupy a space in which the mythology of Maraudana was always parallel to the man and I'm really happy to be joined by Melissa Figueroa today as we talk about

Meridona for the beneath the surface audience and try to place his life in

context not only in terms of his relationship to late 20th century and 21st century capitalist spectacle, but also left

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