Argentines honor soccer star Maradona with mosaics

TIL Desk Sports/ Gonzalo Lopez Lauch is helping bring soccer star Diego Maradona back to life, one mosaic tile at a time.

The visual artist, part of a group called Comando Maradona, unveiled on Thursday a colorful mural of the Argentine player and legend who died on November 25 last year, sparking an outpouring of grief from Buenos Aires to Naples, Italy.

The work, in front of the Argentinos Juniors stadium where Maradona played the early years of his career, is part of a series of mosaics the group has produced for the last three months, to honor the day of his death.

“We are transforming our pain into a mural in a public space,” Lopez Lauch, who makes up the group with Paula Soto and Gabriela Pereyra, said.