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"Jimmy Burns tells the incredible story of soccer player Diego Maradona, the Argentine who rose from the slums of Buenos Aires.
Maradona moves from Argentina to Spain to play for the famous FC Barcelona but it is when he joins Italian club Naples that he becomes famous.
He inspires Argentina to win the soccer World Cup in 1986 and Napoli to win the Italian Serie A a year later.
However, his close association with the famous Camorra mafia of Naples leads to his ever increasing dependency on drugs and the infamous incident in 1994 when he is sent home from the World Cup for failing a dope test."
Alex Wolstenholme, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Sports story?
- soccer
Sports story
Yes
Period of greatest activity?
- 1950+
Subject of Biography
Gender
- Male
Profession/status:
- sports figure
Age:
- 40's-50's
Biography of famous person?
Yes
Ethnicity
- White
Nationality
- Central/South American
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- very athletic
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 3 ()
Europe
Yes
European country:
- Italy
- Spain
The Americas (not US):
Yes
The Americas:
- South
Century:
- 1980's-Present
Style
Person
- mostly 3rd
Book makes you feel?
- depressed
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references
Writer's slant towards subject:
- favorable
Story of entire life, or part?
- story of nearly entire life
Pictures/Illustrations?
- A lot 11-15 B&W
How much dialogue in bio?
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
A LOT of info about personal vices?
Yes
How much of bio focuses on most famous period of life?
- 76%-100% of book
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