{"id":2459,"date":"2020-11-28T10:23:06","date_gmt":"2020-11-28T11:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=2459"},"modified":"2020-11-28T17:57:40","modified_gmt":"2020-11-28T17:57:40","slug":"all-blacks-beautiful-maradona-tribute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=2459","title":{"rendered":"All Blacks&#039; beautiful Maradona tribute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand paid tribute to Diego Maradona when captain Sam Cane laid an All Black jersey \u2014 number 10 \u2014 on the field before the start of their Tri-Nations Test match against Argentina on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>As the All Blacks lined up to perform the Haka, Cane stepped out, walked toward midfield and laid down the jersey \u2014 with Maradona&#x27;s name and number on it \u2014 as Argentine players stood arm-in-arm and watched.<\/p>\n<p>Several Argentine players nodded in acknowledgment of the gesture.<\/p>\n<p>Maradona <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/football\/diego-maradona-dead-at-60-argentina-football-icon-passes-away-after-health-problems\/7f2093af-e7e9-47c9-a4c7-d9b43cf916fd\" title=\"died on Wednesday of a heart attack at age 60\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">died on Wednesday of a heart attack at age 60<\/a> in a house outside Buenos Aires where he had been recovering from a brain operation November 3.<\/p>\n<p>The soccer star was buried on Thursday in a private ceremony \u2014 a stark contrast to earlier in the day when tens of thousands of weeping fans filed past his coffin for hours in an observance that mixed head-of-state-like honors with the chaos of a rowdy stadium.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/rugby\/nz-all-blacks-vs-argentina-pumas-live-scores-rugby-union-kick-off-time-results-news\/1312cddc-a175-409c-9801-c6b7b6076647\" title=\"New Zealand beat the Pumas 38-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New Zealand beat the Pumas 38-0<\/a> and took a firm grip of the Tri-Nations with one match remaining.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wwos\/status\/1332608852970393602?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/wwos\/status\/1332608852970393602?s=20<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SonnyBWilliams\/status\/1332608025102696448?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/SonnyBWilliams\/status\/1332608025102696448?s=20<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/drphilhammond\/status\/1332607606377099266?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/drphilhammond\/status\/1332607606377099266?s=20<\/a><img data-id=\"c5ac101f-4fd5-4e6a-98d4-33ad53c34d1a\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/c5ac101f-4fd5-4e6a-98d4-33ad53c34d1a\" alt=\"Sam Cane of the All Blacks lays down a number 10 jersey in memory of Diego Maradona.\" data-width=\"4461\" data-height=\"2974\" \/><img data-id=\"b4c1cc34-eb6f-42da-bac0-7639f5ae2896\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/b4c1cc34-eb6f-42da-bac0-7639f5ae2896\" alt=\"Sam Cane of the All Blacks walks off the field after winning.\" data-width=\"3000\" data-height=\"1999\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>New Zealand paid tribute to Diego Maradona when captain Sam Cane laid an All Black jersey \u2014 number 10 \u2014 on the field before the <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=2459\" title=\"All Blacks&#039; beautiful Maradona tribute\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2459"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2461,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459\/revisions\/2461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}