Argentines Honour Diego Maradona With Mosaics [Photo]

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Part of argentines virtual art group called Comando Maradona, has launched and unveiled on Thursday, a colourful mural of soccer star Diego Maradona.

The launch and unveiling of the first mosaic is helping bring soccer star Diego Maradona back to life, with one mosaic tile at a time.

The Argentine football player and legend passed away on November 25 last year.

The work, in front of the Argentinos Juniors stadium where Maradona played the early years of his career, is part of a series of mosaics the group has produced for the last three months, to honor the day of his death. “We are transforming our pain into a mural in a public space,” López Lauch, who makes up the group with Paula Soto and Gabriela Pereyra, told Reuters.

The mosaics, made up of small tiles to ensure they are durable and easy to fix in case of vandalism, show Maradona in a jersey of one of the teams he played for, looking at the horizon. Residents from the community are invited to add the final pieces to the mosaics, a reflection of how Maradona was a national hero despite well-documented issues of addiction.

“Maradona is a sample of Argentina, an imprint of our nation, part of our DNA, part of our blood,” López Lauch said. Maradona, a world champion with the Argentine team at the 1986 World Cup, died in November after battling illness from drug and alcohol addiction.

He was honored with a period of lying in state with thousands of people coming to pay their last respects.

'Dotun Akintomide
'Dotun Akintomide
'Dotun Akintomide's journalism works intersect business, environment, politics and developmental issues. Among a number of local and international publications, his work has appeared in the New York Times. He's a winner of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Award. Currently, the Online Editor at The New Diplomat, Akintomide has produced reports that uniquely spoke to Nigeria's experience on Climate Change issues. When Akintomide is not writing, volunteering or working on a media project, you can find him seeing beautiful sites like the sandy beaches that bedecked the Lagos coastline.

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