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🇹🇷😳 THE GREATEST FOOTBALLER OF ALL TIME WAS TURKISH!
Yes, Diego Armando Maradona was a Turk.
🗣️ Maradona said in his visit in Türkiye to a newspaper
“I love the Turks like my own nation.”
In the same interview, Maradona reportedly explained that his grandfather was Turkish and that the family wanted his memory to live on through his younger brother Hugo.
🇹🇷 Hugo Maradona was genuinely known in Argentina from childhood as “El Turco” - “The Turk.”
Argentine television footage already shows a reporter calling the nine-year-old Hugo “Turco” in 1979.
🇦🇷 In 1979, Argentina’s legendary football magazine El Gráfico profiled Diego’s younger brothers and wrote plainly: “Hugo es el Turquito” - “Hugo is the little Turk.” Two years later, El Gráfico again described “Turquito” as Hugo’s family nickname.
🐺 La Nación independently confirms the same thing. It preserved a 1979 television interview in which journalist Eduardo Carpio addresses nine-year-old Hugo directly: “¿Turco, vos jugás en Argentinos Juniors?” - “Turco, do you play for Argentinos Juniors?” Hugo simply answers yes. And in 2015, Diego himself publicly wished him a happy birthday as “mi hermano, el Turco” - “my brother, the Turk.” So “El Turco”
In Argentina, “Turco” historically became the common nickname for immigrants and families who arrived from the Ottoman Empire, particularly people from Ottoman Syria and Lebanon.
And this exact connection has appeared in Turkish sources for years: Maradona’s family was described as belonging to the old Ottoman immigrant communities of Latin America, with some specifically connecting the family to Syria/Lebanon under Ottoman Turkish rule.
😳🤯 There is another incredible Turkish connection in his life too:
🇹🇷 The man who discovered the young Maradona and brought him to Europe was Vahram Çitciyan, a Turkish Armenian born in Ordu who later became one of the major figures behind Deportivo Armenio in Argentina.
Çitciyan supported the young Diego through his connections and resources, remained close to him and his own son was even named Diego.
Syrian-Lebanese Diario Sirio Libanés, one of the community’s Argentine newspapers, published a prominent tribute to Maradona after his death.
The Turkish-Ottoman connection surrounding Diego Maradona is far deeper than almost anyone knows. 🇹🇷
There’s a MAN somewhere right now who has:
• No girlfriend.
• No side chick.
• No sneaky links.
• No texts.
• No calls.
Just by himself, quietly fixing his life.
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