You underestimate the love people across the world have for Argentina's football team.

I am from Kerala, India, and here is an article that might help paint the picture: https://bit.ly/33iRqnp .

Also, among many people who are not football fans, Maradona and Pele are the two names they'd know. Check out the crowds at this public event in India when Maradona visited: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIdwEZ31tTg

RIP.

Maradona was very popular in many countries growing up in the 80s. I only heard of Argentina as a kid when I heard of Maradona :)

And I also didn't expect everyone abroad to respect Diego so much in this day and age. I think with his passing I'm getting to experience something that my generation has never experienced before, which is a glimpse into how the international community respects a part of Argentinian culture that is not grilled meat or Patagonia.

My heart is also kinda warmed by the fact he left us the same day Fidel did.

Maybe it’s because I’m Italian, but Patagonia and grilled meat are honestly the last things I think about when I think Argentina, probably because I’ve sadly not been there yet. To me your country looks like long-haired footballers, Borges, Soriano, tango, Buenos Aires, desaparecidos, a president who looked like the guy on Fantasy Island (Menem), and all those magnificent comicbook artists the country somehow produced (Quino, Josè Munoz, Carlos Sampayo, Horacio Altuna, Alberto Salinas, Lucho Olivera, the “adopted” Robin Wood...). It’s still very much a stereotype, but definitely something I can’t really associate to wilderness.

You named the one who must not be named. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/carlos-menem-bad-luck-...

After the Scottish Play, the Argentinian Playboy...?

Thanks for the link, I had no idea.

My first association is El Eternauta.

And then Maradonna.

I'm from Bangladesh and he is as big a deal for us.