The news is shocking. I can imagine how Argentina is doing right now, taking into account the deep pain across the continent and beyond, even among those people who never went to a stadium or sat on a chair in front of a TV to watch a football match.

Diego Armando Maradona stopped being only Argentine or footballer long ago in order to become a real, tangible, living legend...

And, friends, death is not enough with this kind of people... because they weigh too much, there is no coffin where the material part of their existence fits or sufficient earth to cover them over.

He knew it well, not because he believed himself to be among the group of those men, but because he was like the son of one of them, with more space inside his chest than surface on planet earth: Fidel.

The witnesses, the biographers, the researchers can speak or write about the affection, friendship, truly familiar close relationship between them.

Today November 25, I will say, even without knowing how a ball is better kicked, that Diego Armando has given his most effective kick, completely left-footed, to death; firstty, because anyone hardly imagines him truly extinct, and second, due to he decided - stubborn, rebellious and as Cuban as that other Argentine man with a lone star in his beret - to leave what is called life, precisely on the same day that, according to parchment records, his other father did it: Father Fidel .