Robbie Williams embarrassed after ‘meeting Diego Maradona on gondola in Austria’
Every football fan would have loved the opportunity to exchange a few pleasantries, or perhaps jibes, with the late Diego Maradona.
The iconic Argentina captain passed away in 2020 at the age of 60, sending the football world into mourning. Even those still bitter about his ‘Hand of God’ goal against England in the 1986 World Cup could not refute his brilliance.
However, music megastar and Soccer Aid legend Robbie Williams thought he was one of the select few to enjoy a private conversation with the Napoli and Barcelona god. But, as the former Take That star admitted, something did not feel quite right about their chat in an Austrian gondola.
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“I was doing a gig in Austria and it’s the closing season of the snow season,” Williams began on the Fozcast. “We were in Ischgl and you get in a gondola, go to the top of the mountain, [then] play a gig to 30,000 people.
“My security came to the hotel, picked me up from my room, and they go, ‘you’re not going to believe this, but Maradona is waiting for you at the gondola’. My life is mad anyway, so I was like ‘wow’, then I thought, ‘Austria, Maradona, obviously’.
“He’s there, the man, he is at the bottom of the gondola waiting for me. He can’t speak English, but it doesn’t matter. I had my picture taken with him and I was with my dad, and he had his picture taken with him.
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“We get in the gondola, and you know it was one of those pinch me moments, and I was like ‘look at that dad. We’re in Austria and there is Maradona’.” Undoubtedly the Stoke City fan had enjoyed a mesmerising and surreal experience before his gig.
Unfortunately, Maradona himself did not enjoy the concert, as he was not even in Austria in the first place. Williams added: “On the Daily Mail, I was looking at the football, and there was a picture of Maradona at Chelsea.
“But this Maradona didn’t have a beard. I hadn’t met Maradona, it was a Maradona impersonator!”
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