Photo: Bildbyrån + Tiktok
Glenn Strömberg is a real legend in Swedish football.
He is also one of the few Swedes who met Diego Maradona.
Now Glenn talks about a hitherto unknown meeting with the world star.
Nowadays we feel Glenn Strömberg As a really sharp TV expert in Viaplay and Go ‘Gothenburg citizens who always offer themselves. But once in a while he was one of Sweden’s best football players and a star player in Serie A.
Strömberg in Serie A
Strömberg signed for Atalanta in 1984 and it became a lifelong love for the city of Bergamo, where he still lives today. The Gothenburg citizen with the long hair became extremely popular with the Atalanta fans and appointed the team captain with the nickname “Il Capitano”.
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At this time, the Italian league was considered the world’s best football league and it was curled by big stars in the various teams. But the toughest to meet was obviously the giant Diego Maradona in Napoli.
The meeting with Maradona
Glenn Strömberg is one of the few Swedes who have played against Maradona on a football pitch and he especially remembers a hitherto unknown meeting, which he has not previously told. From the heating before a match between Glenn’s Atalanta and Diegos Napoli.
– I was the captain and wanted to warm up a little earlier. Then I had the ball on my head and nodded, took it on my shoulder, nodded again, then the other shoulder and then nod. It was as far as I got in technology at that time. Then Diego came walking, Strömberg says with a lively body language in a video on Tiktok, see this below.
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Then the anecdote continues with full empathy of the good Glenn.
– He says “Ciao” and I answer “Ciao, Ciao”. But you don’t want to get too close … so he goes to a pillar, but it is off so it is a small space two meters up. He stands with his left foot and sends the ball over the pillar, when the ball goes down I think he will receive it and he can. It’s Maradona, I think, says Strömberg in the video, see below.
– But then he hits the ball the other way and it all knows, when it comes with that screw and you should hit it the other way, it is easy for the ball to beep away in another direction. But he strikes it over the pillar again and then I start to look really carefully. Then he strikes outside and continues with the inside, outside, inside.
Glenn Strömberg can only stand and gap when Diego Maradona offers a senseless show during the warm -up.
– He gets some water when he keeps and takes the ball down to drink. And I, who have never stretched all my life, I send the ball right into a corner and put myself to stretch instead. Because I can’t stand there and trix, I can’t even touch the ball when he’s standing over there.
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