Some time after Diego Maradona walked out on the pitch for the first time, journalist Eduardo Carpio ventured out to 2257 Lescano street. The quiet thoroughfare located in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of La Paternal was the home of the Maradona family, and Diego's brothers Lalo, 10, and Hugo, nine, were quizzed on the teenager that was already on his way to becoming an idol at Argentinos Juniors.
The year was 1979, three years after Diego had made his debut for El Bicho, and in the wake of his majestic performances to bring Argentina the inaugural Junior World Cup title in Japan, Hugo, a budding footballer himself in the Argentinos Juniors youth ranks who would go on to forge a wandering career that included spells in Italy, Spain, Austria and Japan, was asked if he thought that one day he could play as well as his brother.