Maradona occupies an odd place among football superstars. He played recently enough that a high proportion of football fans have some memory of his career, unlike predecessors like Cruyff or Beckenbauer, let alone Pele, Garrincha, Di Stefano, Puzkas, etc. But he was really the last superstar player of an earlier era in the game before the avalanche of TV money and commercialization changed everything. His career arc is essentially unthinkable today - playing almost his whole prime for Napoli, never really doing anything in the European Cup, having his career very powerfully defined by international football, etc.
He was insanely talented and its fun to play the game of "what would he be like if he played today?" But my suspicion is that the answer is kind of depressing. His personal demons, attitude, and poor work habits just wouldn't be conducive to truly elite play in an era where players need to be insanely fit and tactically kind of robotic and where club contributions - which require a very sustained commitment to fitness and tactical discipline - greatly outweigh international ones.
Football is better now but it was more fun when players like Maradona and Socrates could be big figures in the game, rather than robots like Cristiano and Lewandowski.
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