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Adorned in the talismanic number 10 shirt that Maradona made his own while playing Boca Juniors, Barcelona, Napoli and Argentina, hundreds of thousands flocked to the presidential palace in Buenos Aires to pay their last respects; millions around the world were similarly moved, creating makeshift altars and murals in his honor.\u00a0 Vatican News called him &#8220;soccer&#8217;s poet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The interviews collected in\u00a0<span class=\"a-text-italic\">Diego Maradona: The Last Interv<\/span>iew span the breadth of his life and career as a player, coach, and public figure, providing a panoramic and extremely candid accounting of his rollercoaster life, many translated into English for the first time. \u00a0Included in the book are encounters with Pele and Gary Lineker, who Maradona played against in the 1986 England-Argentina game that sent shockwaves around the world. 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