The Argentine international died following an heart attack on Wednesday.
Paul Gascoigne recalled how he was drunk for a football match as he told the late Diego Maradona before a match that he was feeling tipsy, and the Argentinian footballer replied: ‘It’s OK Gazza, so am I’.
The former England player praised the ‘icon’ after his death aged 60 and spoke about the time they faced each other in a friendly between Lazio and Sevilla
‘In the tunnel, I went to Diego, I went ‘Diego, I’m tipsy’. He went: ‘It’s OK Gazza, so am I’. So that was OK. I went out, I beat about four players, scored a goal.
‘And I looked at him and I said ‘beat that’. Obviously I spoke a bit of Italian because he doesn’t speak English and neither do I. So I said ‘beat that’. After that I think I said the wrong thing.
‘He was unbelievable, magic. What a player. My icon is Bryan Robson, but round the world Diego was just a phenomenal footballer, wasn’t he.’
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