His friendship with Maradona during his childhood allowed Diego to make his debut in Los Cebollitas, where he started his football career.
Without him, the boy Diego Armando Maradona would never have auditioned for Los Cebollitas, the first children’s soccer team that welcomed him at age 9. Another child, Gregorio Goyo Carrizo, got him the money for Diego to travel from his home in Villa Fiorito (Buenos Aires) to the training field and recommended it positively to the technical director, Francisco Cornejo. It is one of the first scenes in the autobiographical series Maradona: blessed dream, premiered on Friday, October 29 on Amazon Prime Video and, Although there may be some creative licenses, the friendship between Goyo and Diego was very real.
“One day, Goyo He told Cornejo the phrase thanks to which Maradona entered history: ‘Don Francis, in my neighborhood there is a kid who breaks it’ and the following Saturday he took him and it was Diego Armando Maradona. Together, the 9 (Goyo) and on the 10th (Diego), they gave the team a special aura ”, picks up the official story of the Los Cebollitas children’s team.
Carrizo’s life is addressed in the documentary The other Maradona (2014), also available on Amazon’s Prime Video. “We met when we were 6 years old, we did primary school together and played for Argentino Juniors until he was transferred to Boca. It was a little dream we had as kids and maybe I couldn’t fulfill it. There are several press releases in which Diego named me and that filled me with joy”, He says at the start of the documentary.
“More than anything we had fun on the pitch and it was like the one who gave him help, because he was the only one on the team who knew him more closely, with our eyes, we already understood each other (…) and that was how I put together a bit of the duo with him“, remember.
According to the documentary, Goyo continues to live in Villa Fiorito and it is coach sports of children and young people in the sector.
“I always say that I thank God for what he gave to him, to me, God gave me a good family, good children. And my happiness is that, it does not go through the material or the money, but through my family, “he says. Goyo, who named one of his sons as Diego Armando.
To Gregorio, an injury left him out of the court for good, by deciding not to continue with his physical and emotional recovery. Nor did anyone motivate him to continue, he assures, and was convinced that he would not play again.
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