Why was Diego Maradona a working class icon?

Did Maradona pave the way for being of working class origins and this being central to your identity as a footballer?

What was it that made working class people across the world look at Maradona and say: he is one of us.

Guests Pablo Medina Uribe, a Colombian multimedia journalist and writer based in Bogota and Tony Karon, who teaches on the politics of global soccer in the Graduate Program in International Affairs at the New School in New York, discuss Maradona's significance as a working class rebel, icon and footballer for the people.

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