Culiacán, September 27, 2018. Dorados de Sinaloa has just been eliminated from the Copa MX after losing 2-1 to Querétaro. A journalist asks Diego Maradona, then the team’s coach, whether he feels pressure because of the result.
He did not hesitate. He spoke of another kind of pressure, the kind that does not make sports headlines: that of the man who gets up at 4 in the morning, works all day, and still cannot bring 100 pesos home to feed his children. That, he said, is real pressure. His, compared to that, was nothing.
Two years after his death, the phrase continues to circulate because it touches on something that does not expire: the difference between the demands of a job and the demands of survival. Maradona, who knew poverty before fame, chose to remember it just when the spotlight was on him.
