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Argentina is famous for excellent beef, tantalizing tango, and producing some of the most famous football players in history. Lionel Messi, perhaps one of the best footballers of our generation, has attained such a high level of respect across the world that the administration of Buenos Aires, Argentina's capital city, has decided to honor the striker by unveiling a statue which immortalizes the living legend in bronze.
Rome, March 25 (EFE), (Camera: Álvaro Padilla).- Diego Armando Maradona Junior, son of the Argentine soccer legend, acquired Argentine nationality on Thursday in Rome.Diego Jr remembered his father and said that getting an Argentinian passport was a dream come true.FOOTAGE AND SOUNDBITES OF DIEGO ARMANDO MARADONA JUNIOR:"My dream came true today. The dream of getting Argentine nationality so I will never forget this day because is special.""Having this passport at home is going to be a great joy. It means a lot of things, it means identifying myself with my people even more.""He was not only football, he was joy, generally speaking. We live in a time when it is difficult to find people who give you joy."
Diego Maradona's daughters Giannina and Dalma join a protest over the Argentina football legend's death. A panel of 20 experts recently began a debate into the cause of death to determine if there was negligence on the part of health care professionals. IMAGES
Buenos Aires, Nov 26 (EFE).- Argentine soccer icon Diego Armando Maradona was interred Thursday alongside his parents at a cemetery on the outskirts of Buenos Aires.Only around 30 people were permitted inside the gates of Jardin Bella Vista, where the elder Diego Maradona was buried just five years ago, for the hour-long ceremony at the grave site.Thousands of people lined the 40km (25mi) route to the cemetery from the Casa Rosada, the seat of Argentina's government, where Maradona's coffin lay in state for nearly 12 hours on the first of three official days of mourning. (Camera: RODRIGO GARCIA).SHOT LIST: AUTHORITIES STAND GUARD OUTSIDE THE CEMETERY IN BELLA VISTA, BUENOS AIRES PROVINCE, ARGENTINA.
Buenos Aires, Nov 25 (EFE).- Fans of different Argentine soccer clubs put aside the rivalry to bid farewell together in different stadiums of the country to the soccer star Diego Maradona, who died Wednesday at the age of 60. (Camera: JULIETA BARRERA).SHOT LIST: FANS OF DIFFERENT SOCCER TEAMS IN ARGENTINA GATHER TO BID FAREWELL TO ARGENTINE SOCCER STAR DIEGO MARADONA NEAR THE OBELISCO IN BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA.SOUND BITE: A SOCCER FAN, PAOLA (IN SPANISH).TRANSLATION: Diego will not be forgotten. He will always be the best, the one who gave joy to the entire Argentina.
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