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After a quick note of apology for our utter sloth in updating the blog, let's move on to the news portion of our program. One could devote an entire blog to Maradona (obviously), so we pick our Maradona entries carefully. But two pieces of 'Maradonic' news that dropped in our inbox recently (and didn't concern El 10 getting plastic surgery in Bogotá) caught our eye.

First, related to the picture above, two Mexican couples will be getting married in the Maradona Church on October 29. Why did las parejas Mexicanas--Adrián Alejandro González Acosta (25) and Olivia Pozos Barcelata (22) on one side, and Mario Adolfo Martínez Cuellar (24) and Emma Natalia Trujillo Páez (22) on the other--choose that date? No, not because it's the day after Argentina's presidential elections. No, because that is Noche Buena in the Maradona church, the day before His cumpleaños. The following day begins year 47 D.D. (Después de Diego).

All hail his footiness.

In further Maradona Madness, Archivo 10--a site dedicated to His memory, is relaunching with a new design in time for His birthday. In case you wanted to know. In the words of the press release:

...es un sitio de coleccionismo sobre Diego Maradona, resultado de una titánica tarea llevada a cabo increíblemente por una sola persona, ajena al periodismo o medio alguno; Aníbal Di Toro (36), argentino, de la ciudad de Buenos Aires.

Se trata de una colección personal, que se exhibe para facilitar el intercambio con coleccionistas de todo el mundo, y así cumplir su objetivo de acopiar, archivar y preservar la mayor cantidad de material relacionado a Diego Armando Maradona.