‘The game remains untainted’: A look back on Argentine football legends’ farewells

As Argentine football legend Lionel Messi gets ever closer to his farewell from the national team , a generation of fans will have to come to terms with the loss of a man who was ubiquitous for nearly 20 years. For the older fans, however, the sensation is bound to feel all too similar. Less than 25 years ago, Diego Maradona, the man who made the Argentine No. 10 his own before Messi, bid farewell not just to the national team, but football as a whole. With the Rosario-born star’s bow out set to be one of the biggest events of the year, we decided to take a look back at the last time…