About Diego Armando Maradona, there is much to tell and, although it seems that everything has come to light, new stories or anecdotes about the player continue to emerge.
One of the latest ones that has caught attention is the one detailed by Infobae in a publication. This refers to the luxurious jewel that the Argentine football star used and that had become one of his superstitions.
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Two years ago, Maradona celebrated a birthday party, waiting for the guests seated on a sofa dressed in his best clothes. As a joke, during the party, he showed an impressive ring and offered his hand, intending for the attendees to kiss it. Two or three people followed the game, and a woman smiled after doing it, to which the player, always very quick-witted, told her: "You just kissed an apartment," which made everyone laugh.
That ring, the protagonist of that joke, was Maradona's favorite jewel and had a unique origin. The story takes place in Belarus, specifically in July 2018 when he arrived there to assume the role of "president of football" for Dynamo Brest.
His arrival in the city caused a commotion: he was expected at a stadium full of people, which he reached aboard an Overcomer Hunta, an exclusive amphibious vehicle that the club gave him, with a fiberglass chassis, a 100-liter fuel tank, and a navigation capacity of 8 kilometers per hour.
During the welcome, he received another very special gift: a diamond ring that fascinated the player. It is worth $300,000, and Maradona wore it as soon as they handed it to him on the ring finger of his right hand. In addition to this, due to the three-year contract agreement, he kept 0.5% of the team's shares.
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However, he received the offer to coach Dorados de Sinaloa and immediately accepted that opportunity. The farewell from Belarus was friendly, and he was even named "honorary president." The vehicle remained in Brest; it is still his property, while the ring became an inseparable companion.
It is known that Maradona had a weakness for jewelry. High-end watches became one of his fetishes (he got used to wearing two, one on each wrist) and were his favorite prize when recognizing his players on the teams he coached. In Fujairah FC and Dorados, it was common for their top scorers to receive a Hublot watch every time they stood out on the field.
Earrings were also important pieces for the player. Many still remember the episode of the earrings with three large diamond stones that were confiscated from him in Italy in 2009 as part of payment for a tax debt and were later auctioned for 25,000 euros.
The ring he received in Belarus immediately became his favorite jewel and superstition. His presence on the Gimnasia substitute bench led to a winning streak, and that caused him to wear it in every game, just like the rosary that has accompanied him since the 1986 World Cup in Mexico.
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In the current Professional League Cup (renamed the Diego Maradona Cup after his death), he didn't get to show it. Now, the ring is part of the inheritance that his descendants will have to dispute. (I)