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Title: The Life of a Virtuoso and Cheat
Review: Jimmy Burns captures the exact balance between the unparalleled genious of Diego Maradona and his conspicuous dark side. Gifted and popular, yet profligatious and opportunistic, Maradona, argues Burns, is the victim of a set of extremely abussive environments. Constantly surrounded and invaded by manipulative club executives, mafia leaders and "yellow press" journalists, the Argentinian idol leads two different trails in life: to posterity in the Pantheon of the soccer gods... and to the depths of personal chaos.The book may have very easily been entitled "Man Without Trusting Friends" and it could rightly be cataloged as either a sports biography or a sociological treatise. Burns' composure and objectivity throughout the book are downright professional. His writing is elegant, muscular and enjoyable.
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