In focus this week: Paid, Not Bought-an essay by Francesca Emilia Mina revisiting her memory of Diego Maradona's final interview with her father, the Italian journalist Gianni Minà, in the 1990s, and reconnecting that conversation with the realities of today..

Accompanied by Franco Pereyra Varrá's photographs of Maradona's funeral in the streets of Buenos Aires, the essay explores the footballer's sociopolitical legacy, reinterpreting his final words as prophecy and asking what truly defines a legend-and why Maradona may have been one of the last.

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