Balloon wedding: Osvaldo marries Maradona’s daughter

Osvaldo-MaradonaTo read it like this, it could sound like an attacking couple in one of those rankings that compare players of all eras, between fantasy and nostalgia for those who are no longer there. On the 9th and 10th Osvaldo center forward, Maradona who makes Maradona, simply. Instead the news is that Daniel Osvaldo has asked in marriage Giannina, the daughter of Diego Armando Maradona, one of the two, the other is Dalma, had by his wife Claudia Villafane. On social media, the two appear tenderly embraced, smiling, bright.

The two have been friends for a long time, since 2015, but they only declared themselves in February of this year. Convivono to Buenos Aires and it is in a restaurant in the Argentine capital that Osvaldo asked the hand of the most sober and discreet of the children of the Pibe de Oro, the only one who did not talk much about himself, avoiding splashes of poison and controversies triggered by the great tribe of the greatest of all, who disappeared a year ago and now at the center of a desolate legal battle to grab property and assets that belonged to him.

If Giannina, 32, has always preferred the shadow to the limelight, Osvaldo, who turns 36 on January 12, has always been an anomalous footballer. In his globetrotting career there is a lot of Italy (Atalanta, Lecce, Fiorentina, Bologna, Rome, Juventus, Inter) and there is also the blue jersey (he has been naturalized). He stopped playing football in the spring of 2020, with the Banfield shirt. In reality he was picking up his last engagements, because his last noteworthy militancy dated back to five years earlier, in his stage at Boca Juniors, Maradona’s favorite team.

Outside the box of the approved footballer who goes to “bla bla bla” and “important game” who both then “decides the coach” and in any case “I am honored to wear this shirt that I dreamed of as a child”. None of this. The furious Osvaldo, has a rebellious temper, a Hollywood star smile and a curious resemblance to Johnny Deep, he has always stood out for being a very nice scoundrel, who has sown several beautiful goals but also a lot of indolence, as if he didn’t really care. He once said: “Football sucks me, it’s just business.” Football made him famous, gave him an economic solidity that, with his musical group, the Barrjo Viejo, he would never have. In the 2019 edition we also saw him engaged as a dancer a dancing with the Stars, alongside the professional Veera Kinnunen.

Both Daniel and Giannina have had a very troubled love life. She was married for four years (2008-2012) to Sergio Aguero known as El Kun, an Argentine champion who just a few days ago was forced to bid farewell to football due to a cardiac arrhythmia. Giannina has a son, Benjamin. Osvaldo has four children instead: Gianluca, Victoria and Maria Helena, Morrison. He was married only once, as a young man, to Nina Oertilinger, and had several life partners, including an affair with the Italian Elena Braccini, who at the time was working as a hostess at the stadium in Florence.

Giannina has posted her happiness on social media and has already set to work organizing the wedding. To unite Osvaldo to the Maradona family, Daniel was obviously a great admirer of Diego, there is also a geographical detail: both were born in Lanùs, alle porte di Buenos Aires.