Diego quote from a 2014 interview " I am 53 going on 78 because my life hasn't been normal. I've lived 80 with the life I've gone through."
Great video. The song is continuous while the video is edited so it would have been nice to see the unedited video. It's odd, for such a legend, he only touches the ball with his right foot a few times.
Maradona's warm up[edit]
On 19 April 1989, during the warming up in Munich before the
UEFA Cup semi-final return between
FC Bayern Munich and
S.S.C. Napoli,
Diego Maradona did a
keepie uppie exhibition, to the rhythm of the song, while the song was heard on the stadium's loudspeakers. This has become a classic among football fans.
Some confusion persists by those who dispute that it took place in
Munich. Among others,
Jürgen Klinsmann claimed that it happened during the final in
Stuttgart:
There were 70,000 people in the stadium and Maradona went on the field. We’re on the other side of the field, warming up like Germans: seriously, focused. There's music playing, the song "Live is Life", and to the rhythm of the song Maradona started juggling the ball. So we stopped our warm-up. What's this guy doing? He's juggling off his shoulders. And we couldn't warm up anymore because we had to watch this guy.
[4]
Belgian sports anchor
Frank Raes, who edited the video and distributed it via YouTube, always asserted that this warm up took place just before the semifinal in Munich. According to Raes, this can easily be verified by visual cues in the clip, such as the advertisements around the pitch, for example the numerous
Commodore boards which were one of Bayern's main sponsors at the time.[
citation needed]
By 2013, Frank Raes' Maradona video clip had garnered almost two million views on YouTube.
[4] The 25th anniversary of Maradona's warming up was noted internationally, with newspapers commenting on his skills and on the transformative effect he had on Napoli and southern Italy.