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A Kerala-based businessman on Monday stated a world-class museum will likely be in-built reminiscence of Diego Maradona with a gold sculpture of the Argentine soccer legend as the principle attraction. Chairman and Managing Director of Boby Chemmanur International Group, Boby Chemmanur, who was instrumental in bringing the soccer star on a go to to Kerala eight years in the past, stated the life-size sculpture will symbolize “The Hand of God”, because the Argentine ahead described a vital aim he scored within the 1986 FIFA World Cup which his group went on to win.
The proposed museum is to return up in Kolkata or in south India, he advised a press convention in Kochi.
It will showcase Maradona’s skilled and private life, he stated.
The museum will mix the aesthetics of artwork and expertise, Boby Chemmanur stated.
The upcoming museum on a number of acres of land can have a gold sculpture of Maradona as its most important attraction, he stated.
Recalling his “close friendship” with Maradona for a decade, Boby Chemmanur stated the connection started with the footballer at Dubai in 2011.
Later, Maradona inaugurated a Chemmanur jewelry showroom in Dubai.
“I gifted Maradona a miniature gold statue of his figure. Accepting it, the soccer star expressed the desire to see his life-size gold sculpture related to “The Hand of God”, he said.
“I’m extraordinarily completely satisfied to be fulfilling that need of Maradona,” Boby Chemmanur said.
The “Hand of God” goal was scored against England in the quarterfinals of the 1986 World Cup.
The Boby Chemmanur Group, headquartered in Thrissur, had Maradona as its ambassador after the Argentinian signed the deal in March 2018.
Maradona was in the northern part of the state for two days in October 2012 to inaugurate a showroom of Chemmannur Jewellers in Kannur.
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“The museum is my tribute to Maradona. It will likely be a storehouse of data associated to the good participant and his soccer. It will perform as a centre for leisure of worldwide requirements,” he stated.
The curator of the museum will likely be artist-writer Bony Thomas, a founder-trustee of Kochi Biennale Foundation that conducts India’s largest modern artwork competition.
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