Motivation Quote by Diego Maradona

Maradona is doing what he always did best: turning chaos into a moral drama with villains. He frames “not clear” football as a breach of a basic contract between the game and its public. The complaint isn’t just that refereeing is inconsistent or that rules have gotten muddier; it’s that the fans are being shortchanged by a system that no longer feels legible. Clarity, here, stands in for justice. When decisions seem random, the sport stops being a shared story and starts feeling like a rigged machine.

The line about “people who do not understand football” is classic Maradona gatekeeping, but it’s also a populist swipe at the modern bureaucracy of the sport: executives, committees, and governing bodies who speak in policies and “protocols” while the game on the pitch becomes an afterthought. He’s invoking an older, romantic idea of football knowledge - not the data or the law book, but the lived intelligence of those who played and suffered inside the sport’s logic.

Context matters: Maradona’s career played out amid corruption scandals, politicized federations, and constantly shifting refereeing standards. Later eras only intensified the feeling: global branding, TV-driven incentives, and technology like VAR that promises transparency but often produces longer arguments. His intent is to delegitimize the decision-makers by claiming they lack the one credential that should matter. The subtext is blunt: give the game back to its people, or accept that confusion isn’t an accident - it’s the operating system.