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Libero 065 | The Diego Maradona Episode

Libero

Libero

Sports, Soccer, Society & Culture

4.9867 Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Many words have been written and spoken about Diego Maradona, but not yet on Libero. That changes now. To celebrate the 65th birthday of the greatest footballer of all time, James Horncastle is joined by Jonathan Wilson and Tariq Panja. There's singing, Scottish accents and anecdotes for all. P1: (00:35) P2: (36:09) Produced by: Tom Bassam Email in via liberopodcast0@gmail.com Subscribe to our YouTube channel @liberopod Follow us on X @podcast_libero Follow us on Bluesky @liberopodcast.bsky.social Follow us on Instagram @liberopod Follow us on TikTok @liberopod Follow us on Facebook @liberopod Music: Kid Kodi - Blue Dot Sessions Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Na, nah, na, na, na, na.

0:03.0

Libro is life.

0:04.9

And don't you ever forget it, listener?

0:06.5

Please like and subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, and YouTube, so we can move up El Algorithmo.

0:12.9

Now, as host today, I'm of course obliged to remind you that

0:16.8

the football is the most important of the

0:21.0

things less important.

0:23.5

As Diego Armando Maradonna, no less, said whilst rounding Peter

0:27.1

Schilton at the Azteca in 1986.

0:35.0

Today I am joined by El Flaco Wilson of the Wilson Industrial Complex, which includes books, columns, podcasts like this one, and the generation of tactics writers that Miguel Delaney would happily push out of a helicopter over the Rio Grande.

0:52.6

Flanking him is Tata el Madavija Pangea from the New York Times.

0:58.3

Some might say a left-wing periodical that Diego no less would read whilst puffing on a Havana

1:04.4

cigar in a Che Guevara T-shirt after lunch with Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez in Cuba.

1:12.8

I am James Horncastle from The Athletic, a New York Times company.

1:18.5

It's important to distinguish that when Tata Panja is on the show.

1:22.1

A little bit like we'll be distinguishing between Diego and Maradona in this podcast.

1:32.0

This is episode 65, El Flacco Wilson.

1:35.8

You suggested we do this. What are we doing and why?

1:39.6

Hefe, buenos deyos. We didn't.

1:49.7

Yes, episode 65, and because we planned this incredibly carefully in advance, people think we didn't even know how many episodes we were going to do a week.

1:53.0

People think we just started because finally we could get some people together in a room.

2:03.7

But actually, I've been planning this all the way from March, but episode 65 happens in the week in which Deegan Maradonna would have turned 65. So he was born on the 30th of October 1960. And it feels an appropriate time to look at his legacy and why he

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