Sports legend Diego Maradona has died of cardiac arrest at the age of 60. The Argentine footballer will be remembered as much for his colorful personality as he will for his magical feet, and for anyone looking to revisit his incredible career, here's how to watch Diego Maradona online and stream the BAFTA-winning 2019 documentary from anywhere today.
Streaming rights to 2019 documentary Diego Maradona are owned by HBO in the US, while the film is available to rent and buy on VoD platforms in other countries around the world (including for free on All 4 in the UK until the end of December). Full details are below, but wherever you are, you ensure you always have access to your favourite streaming services and content by using a good VPN (opens in new tab).
Written and directed by Oscar-winning documentarian Asif Kapadia (Amy, Senna), it features previously unseen archival footage of Maradona drawn from over 500 hours of never-before-seen personal, news-related and interview-based footage regarding the legend.
First screened out of competition at Cannes last year, Diego Maradona focuses on a specific part of the soccer icon's career when he moved from iconic La Liga team Barcelona to Italian outfit Napoli in 1984 for a then world record transfer fee. To say he made an impact on the club and the city would be an understatement: fast forward just a few seasons and Napoli were both Serie A and European champions.
Released globally in late-2019 to widespread critical acclaim, it's a film that eschews most of the clichés that often constrain sports documentaries, with the most obvious point of comparison being another one of Kapadia's masterpieces, Senna.
With Maradona now sadly no longer with us, anyone wishing to revisit the most compelling years of his career may well want to watch Diego Maradona online, in addition to YouTube highlights of his many goals. Here's how to do just that.
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How to watch Diego Maradona from outside your country
If you find yourself stuck abroad in a country where the service you'd normally use to watch Diego Maradona isn't available, don't worry.
Help is available in the form of a VPN, which will allow you to watch whatever services your subscribe to, no matter where you are in the world, simply by changing your IP address to one that's back in your country of residence. Here's how to get started with this essential bit of streaming software.
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