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‘The world has lost a legend’: Football icon Diego Maradona dead at 60
‘The world has lost a legend’: Troubled football icon Diego Maradona dead at 60
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RIP legend.
RIP Maradona
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‘The world has lost a legend’: Football icon Diego Maradona dead at 60
‘The world has lost a legend’: Troubled football icon Diego Maradona dead at 60
RIP legend.
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‘The world has lost a legend’: Football icon Diego Maradona dead at 60
‘The world has lost a legend’: Troubled football icon Diego Maradona dead at 60
RIP legend.
We will never see a player or personality like him ever again.
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Words from the man himself in a 2014 interview on Argentina's Tyc Sports..
"I gave my opponents a big advantage due to my illness. Do you know the player I could have been if I hadn't taken drugs?"
"I am 53 going on 78 because my life hasn't been normal. I've lived 80 [years] with the life I've gone through."
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Fair enough mate. No question 60 is far too young to go and he destroyed his body. That he died of a heart attack as well suggests a connection with abuse of the devil’s dandruff. Shame.
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The greatest ever by a far distance.
Think of a man who could take our current bulldogs side and make them champions.
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Shut the f*** up’: How Diego Maradona’s on-field legacy was defined in just four minutes
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Diego Maradona scores 1st goal with his Hand of God, past England goalkeeper Peter Shilton (Photo by Bob Thomas/Getty Images)Source: Getty Images
Diego Maradona scored more than 300 goals, many touched with genius, but the two most famous came within four minutes of each other on June 22, 1986 in Mexico: one was voted Goal of the Century, the other is even more famous.
Maradona and Argentina arrived at that World Cup with something to prove.
Four years earlier in Spain, Maradona’s first World Cup had ended with early elimination and a red card for a spectacular foul against Brazil.
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Remembering the 'hand of god'
1:17
In Mexico, Argentina cruised through their group, edged past old enemies Uruguay in the last 16 and then faced England, an enemy of a different kind, in the quarter-finals at the vast Azteca Stadium.
Maradona has given repeated accounts of that match: in his autobiography ‘Maradona’; in a book with Argentine journalist Daniel Arcucci on that World Cup called ‘Touched by God’, and in interviews.
The language may be more or less colourful, but the details remain the same.
Maradona remembered the humiliation of the Falklands War -- over the British-owned archipelago in the South Atlantic known in Spanish as the ‘Malvinas’ -- four years earlier, when Argentina surrendered to the British shortly after the start of the World Cup in Spain.
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Thirty years ago on June 22, 1986 Maradona scored two goals against England, the first one dubbed "Hand of God" goal with his left hand as he jumped for the ball in front of goalkeeper Peter Shilton. / AFP PHOTO / -Source: AFP
“It was England, let’s not forget, and the ‘Malvinas’ were fresh in the memory,” he said.
“It was a battle, yes, but on my battlefield.” The first half was cagey.
“I was bored stiff,” his team-mate Jorge Valdano wrote in The Guardian 20 years later.
“Eleven functionaries on each side trying not to make a mistake.”
That changed in the 51st minute. Maradona beat three men in midfield. Finding his way blocked, he pinged a pass to Valdano and set off in anticipation of a return.
Steve Hodge stole the ball. The back-pass to the goalkeeper was still legal and that’s what the England midfielder tried.
“The ball bounced nice,” he said later.
“I caught it absolutely spot on. It was the contact I wanted, looping it back with a bit of dip. When I caught it, I didn’t have a moment’s thought that it could be a problem, because I didn’t know where Maradona was.”
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Diego Maradona runs past English defender Terry Butcher on his way to dribbling goalkeeper Peter Shilton and scoring his second goal, or goal of the century.0 (Photo by STAFF / AFP)Source: AFP
‘JUMPED LIKE A FROG’
Maradona, as usual, was thinking faster than anyone else and racing toward goal as Peter Shilton advanced to catch the ball.
“It floated down to me like a little balloon. Oh boy, what a treat,” said Maradona.
“Shilton thought I was going to hit him. But I jumped like a frog.” Maradona was some seven inches (18cm) shorter than the England goalkeeper.
“If you look at my feet, you’ll see that I’m already in the air, moving upward. I keep moving up, and he hasn’t even left the ground,” Maradona said.
“I got an idea, to put my hand and my head in.”
Maradona’s left hand flicked the ball between Shilton’s open arms and into the goal.
“The one who realised what happened was (Terry) Fenwick,” said Maradona.
“But apart from him, nothing, no one else.”
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Diego Maradona scoring "Hand of God" goal with Peter Shilton. a/ct /Soccer/World/CupSource: AP
When the England defender appealed, the BBC commentator, Barry Davies, assumed it was for offside. Even the celebration was part of Maradona’s deception.
“I kept on running, never looking back,” he said.
Argentina manager Carlos Bilardo had forbidden midfielders to waste energy running to join celebrations. Maradona waved his team-mates toward him.
“This time, I needed them. I really did.
“(Sergio) ‘Checho’ Batista was the first one to come over, but slowly. “He asked me: ‘Did you use your hand?’ I told him ‘Shut the f*** up and keep celebrating!’ We were still afraid they would disallow the goal.”
“As a kid in Fiorito I would score goals with my hand all the time. And I did the same thing in front of a hundred thousand people, but no one saw it,” he said.
Tunisian referee Ali Bin Nasser looked at Bulgarian linesman Bogdan Dochev and then gave the goal.
“All they saw was the screaming after I had scored. And if they screamed that loud, it was because they were sure I had scored. So how could we possibly blame the Tunisian ref?”
Maradona says his other handball goals included several in Argentina and two for Napoli.
He said that once in Argentina, “many years before Mexico”, he was caught and the referee “advised me not to do it anymore; I thanked him, but also told him I couldn’t promise him anything. I imagine he was celebrating like crazy against England.”
Terry Butcher harboured a grudge over the 'Hand of God' goal that helped knock England out of the 1986 World Cup. Butcher, an England defender in the team that lost the quarter-final match said he would never "forgive and forget" Maradona's action. AFP PHOTO/ Michael HughesSource: AFP
‘STEALING FROM A THIEF’
Maradona came up with the phrase ‘Hand of God’ at the post-match press conference.
“At first, I kept saying that I had headed it in. I don’t know, I was scared that since I was still in the stadium, they might disallow the goal. What did I know?
“In passing I said to someone, ‘It was Maradona’s head and God’s hand’.”
Hodge exchanged shirts at the end, but other English players remain less forgiving.
“Shilton did get mad,” said Maradona. “He said, ‘I’m not going to invite Maradona to my testimonial. Ha! Who wants to go to a testimonial for a goalie?”
Four minutes later, Maradona ran more than half the length of the field, beat six England players and scored the Goal of the Century. It was also the match-winner.
But his first goal, athletic, cunning and illegal, remains the more discussed.
“We shouldn’t forget that we were Argentinians, representatives of a country that rationalises with the word ‘exuberance’ what in other places is called cheating,” wrote Valdano.
Maradona remained unrepentant.
“Of course, it was not the Hand of God. It was me.
“I am not sorry for scoring with my hand. Not sorry at all!
“For me, it was like stealing from a thief.”
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- November 26, 2020 3:01pm
- by AFP
- Source: AFP
Diego Maradona scored more than 300 goals, many touched with genius, but the two most famous came within four minutes of each other on June 22, 1986 in Mexico: one was voted Goal of the Century, the other is even more famous.
Maradona and Argentina arrived at that World Cup with something to prove.
Four years earlier in Spain, Maradona’s first World Cup had ended with early elimination and a red card for a spectacular foul against Brazil.
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Remembering the 'hand of god'
1:17
In Mexico, Argentina cruised through their group, edged past old enemies Uruguay in the last 16 and then faced England, an enemy of a different kind, in the quarter-finals at the vast Azteca Stadium.
Maradona has given repeated accounts of that match: in his autobiography ‘Maradona’; in a book with Argentine journalist Daniel Arcucci on that World Cup called ‘Touched by God’, and in interviews.
The language may be more or less colourful, but the details remain the same.
Maradona remembered the humiliation of the Falklands War -- over the British-owned archipelago in the South Atlantic known in Spanish as the ‘Malvinas’ -- four years earlier, when Argentina surrendered to the British shortly after the start of the World Cup in Spain.
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“It was England, let’s not forget, and the ‘Malvinas’ were fresh in the memory,” he said.
“It was a battle, yes, but on my battlefield.” The first half was cagey.
“I was bored stiff,” his team-mate Jorge Valdano wrote in The Guardian 20 years later.
“Eleven functionaries on each side trying not to make a mistake.”
That changed in the 51st minute. Maradona beat three men in midfield. Finding his way blocked, he pinged a pass to Valdano and set off in anticipation of a return.
Steve Hodge stole the ball. The back-pass to the goalkeeper was still legal and that’s what the England midfielder tried.
“The ball bounced nice,” he said later.
“I caught it absolutely spot on. It was the contact I wanted, looping it back with a bit of dip. When I caught it, I didn’t have a moment’s thought that it could be a problem, because I didn’t know where Maradona was.”
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‘JUMPED LIKE A FROG’
Maradona, as usual, was thinking faster than anyone else and racing toward goal as Peter Shilton advanced to catch the ball.
“It floated down to me like a little balloon. Oh boy, what a treat,” said Maradona.
“Shilton thought I was going to hit him. But I jumped like a frog.” Maradona was some seven inches (18cm) shorter than the England goalkeeper.
“If you look at my feet, you’ll see that I’m already in the air, moving upward. I keep moving up, and he hasn’t even left the ground,” Maradona said.
“I got an idea, to put my hand and my head in.”
Maradona’s left hand flicked the ball between Shilton’s open arms and into the goal.
“The one who realised what happened was (Terry) Fenwick,” said Maradona.
“But apart from him, nothing, no one else.”
TROUBLED LIFE: Maradona was touched by God on the field and the Devil off it
When the England defender appealed, the BBC commentator, Barry Davies, assumed it was for offside. Even the celebration was part of Maradona’s deception.
“I kept on running, never looking back,” he said.
Argentina manager Carlos Bilardo had forbidden midfielders to waste energy running to join celebrations. Maradona waved his team-mates toward him.
“This time, I needed them. I really did.
“(Sergio) ‘Checho’ Batista was the first one to come over, but slowly. “He asked me: ‘Did you use your hand?’ I told him ‘Shut the f*** up and keep celebrating!’ We were still afraid they would disallow the goal.”
“As a kid in Fiorito I would score goals with my hand all the time. And I did the same thing in front of a hundred thousand people, but no one saw it,” he said.
Tunisian referee Ali Bin Nasser looked at Bulgarian linesman Bogdan Dochev and then gave the goal.
“All they saw was the screaming after I had scored. And if they screamed that loud, it was because they were sure I had scored. So how could we possibly blame the Tunisian ref?”
Maradona says his other handball goals included several in Argentina and two for Napoli.
He said that once in Argentina, “many years before Mexico”, he was caught and the referee “advised me not to do it anymore; I thanked him, but also told him I couldn’t promise him anything. I imagine he was celebrating like crazy against England.”
‘STEALING FROM A THIEF’
Maradona came up with the phrase ‘Hand of God’ at the post-match press conference.
“At first, I kept saying that I had headed it in. I don’t know, I was scared that since I was still in the stadium, they might disallow the goal. What did I know?
“In passing I said to someone, ‘It was Maradona’s head and God’s hand’.”
Hodge exchanged shirts at the end, but other English players remain less forgiving.
“Shilton did get mad,” said Maradona. “He said, ‘I’m not going to invite Maradona to my testimonial. Ha! Who wants to go to a testimonial for a goalie?”
Four minutes later, Maradona ran more than half the length of the field, beat six England players and scored the Goal of the Century. It was also the match-winner.
But his first goal, athletic, cunning and illegal, remains the more discussed.
“We shouldn’t forget that we were Argentinians, representatives of a country that rationalises with the word ‘exuberance’ what in other places is called cheating,” wrote Valdano.
Maradona remained unrepentant.
“Of course, it was not the Hand of God. It was me.
“I am not sorry for scoring with my hand. Not sorry at all!
“For me, it was like stealing from a thief.”
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A true football superstar.
The only footballer ever to single handedly win a World Cup for his country. He carried that 1986 Argentinian team.
He took Napoli from nothing and won them 2 titles in serie A which back then was one of the best leagues in the world. They have not even come close to winning anything since.
A magician on the ball , Maradona was a joy to watch and it’s a priviledge that I got to watch this player in my lifetime.
R.I.P Legend.
ps I read a quote that said ......“ God decided to strengthen his football team and took Maradona to be his captain”
The only footballer ever to single handedly win a World Cup for his country. He carried that 1986 Argentinian team.
He took Napoli from nothing and won them 2 titles in serie A which back then was one of the best leagues in the world. They have not even come close to winning anything since.
A magician on the ball , Maradona was a joy to watch and it’s a priviledge that I got to watch this player in my lifetime.
R.I.P Legend.
ps I read a quote that said ......“ God decided to strengthen his football team and took Maradona to be his captain”
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What an amazing player he was. He made things that were very difficult look easy and things that appeared impossible seem possible. I was watching some highlight videos of his skills on YouTube recently , it was like he had the ball on a string. His ball control was just astonishing. He dominated all oppositions at will the same way people like Jordan or Tiger woods or even Bradman did
‘The world has lost a legend’: Football icon Diego Maradona dead at 60
‘The world has lost a legend’: Troubled football icon Diego Maradona dead at 60
RIP legend.