Dalma Maradona traveled to the United States to watch Argentina and England, and the flight turned into a moving tribute to her father. Passengers recognized her, sang “Olé, olé, olé, Diego, Diego, Diego,” and watched as she sorted a Diego Maradona shirt among them.
The moment drew a loud response from the cabin and ended with Pérez winning the shirt in the sorteo. Dalma Maradona, visibly overwhelmed, put her hands to her face and seemed to hold back tears as the plane filled with chants for Diego.
The post from the flight carried the caption “Hermoso avión,” a fitting label for a scene that mixed football memory with personal emotion. It also landed alongside another reminder of how publicly the Maradona family still lives with Diego’s image: Dalma Maradona later reacted on Instagram to Colin Farrell’s account of meeting Diego Maradona in Buenos Aires in 2005.
That separate exchange mattered because Farrell said he had always wanted to go to Buenos Aires for Diego Maradona and the World Cup of 1986, and that a one-week delay while filming Miami Vice in Uruguay pushed him across the Río de la Plata. In Dalma Maradona’s reply, she pointed to the line in which he mentioned her presence, then posted photos from that night and captions that turned the memory back into a family joke.
What makes both episodes land together is the contrast. On the plane, strangers celebrated Diego with Dalma Maradona in front of them. Online, she took possession of the story from 2005 with the same mix of affection and mischief, reminding followers that she was not just in the room but in the middle of the scene.
The unresolved point is the destination itself: the trip was tied to a match between Argentina and England, but the exact game is not stated. Even so, the flight is clear enough on its own. It was a public, singing, shirt-sorting tribute to Diego Maradona, with Dalma Maradona carrying the emotional weight of it from one end of the cabin to the other.
