One of the most disputed topics as long as football fans come together, is the biggest goal ever been scored? You will rarely find two people agree. For some, it is the team that matters, so a goal that involves a game of accumulation that involves many players and the interaction of their interpretation will be their list of preferences. For others, these are those moments of individual brightness, where a player does something sublime or unexpected that raises the game out of the rule and raises it to a higher level. And there are those who believe that the context of the game goes and the more important the occasion and, the greater the participation, the greater the weight must be attached to a goal.
Some of the most significant goals have marked that they adapt to some, or all criteria, have been lost due to posterity. It has been scored in an age before television or YouTube, there is no digital record. Instead, his legacy comes from mouth to mouth, the generations passed for those who were fortunate enough to witness -in person. Unfortunately, they must be ruled out of discussion, as there is no one living today who can testify about their greatness.
Since the high degree of subjectivity involved, selecting a goal of the hundreds of thousands offered may seem impossible. However, some of them regularly stand out and present the surveys for all time. And, possibly, the one that Towers above the others was marked by Diego Maradona playing Argentina against England in the quarter of the 1986 World Cup.
The rivalry
Although it was the British expatriates who introduced the football game into Argentina, when the two sides met at the Azteca stadium in Mexico on June 22, the teams and countries had been bitter rivals for 20 years, both outside and outside the pitch.
The origins of this rivalry went back to another quarter of the World Cup final played in Wembley in 1966. That game, which England won 1-0 saw that the Argentine captain Rattin sent in a game with bad offenses and strong attacks. Rattin accused the German referee of favoring the English, while the manager of England inflamed the situation by labeling Argentinians as “animals” an epithet that was considered deeply racist in South America.
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The situation between the two countries out of the countryside was climbed in a much more severe thing in 1992. The Military Board in Argentina decided that year to invade the Malvin Islands, a British colony in the South Atlantic, claiming -as Malvinas Islands. The result was an armed conflict between the two nations, which saw that Britain sent troops and a naval working group to recover the islands. In the fighting, more than 250 British troops and 650 Argentines were killed, as Britain recovered the islands, causing a humiliating defeat to the invasive forces.
This humiliation and resentment burned brilliant to the Argentine players and their supporters as they took their place in the field that day, and in the game’s career, the fans clashed on the street. Several English supporters were hospitalized.
The first half
The first half saw the first possibilities for both parties, but Argentina began to control possession and territory without having anything concrete to show it.
The hand of God
Before Maradona marked what would later be called “Gol of the century”, he had put his side with a goal that was almost so famous, but for completely different reasons.
Six minutes after the restart, Maradona picked up the ball in the middle of his opponent and headed for the Penalty Box of England. He played it to his teammate Jorge Valdano in the hope of a two, but the striker lost control of the ball, giving the England midfielder Steve Hodge the ability to erase his lines.
Instead, he cut the ball again into his penalty area to where Maradona had continued his career. What happened below has been reissued thousands of times in countless documentaries and collections from YouTube. The Argentine captain lifted himself and appeared to throw the ball on the extended arms of the goalkeeper of England, Peter Shilton and the net. Except that Maradona was 5 feet 4 inches high and Shilton at more than 6 feet.
What was immediately evident for English defenders and hundreds of millions of people watching television worldwide is that Maradona had inclined the ball on Shilton’s understanding with his left arm extended. The Tunisian referee did not see the violation and, more than 30 years before the arrival of VAR; The goal was allowed to stop.
There was nothing accidental about what Maradona did. It was a deliberate act of play that, in modern times, would have been worth at least one yellow card. Instead, he convinced his teammates to celebrate with him and helped legitimize him in the eyes of party officials.
Later, Maradona told a press conference that the goal was “a bit with Maradona’s head, and a little with God’s hand.” It is still known to this day.
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The objective of the century
If this goal showed Maradona in the worst, what he did four minutes later showed the other side of him: Yin al Yang.
The diminutive editor took the ball in the middle of the right side, and initially did not seem a danger to England. However, he turned away from two players from England, Peter Beardsley and Peter Reid, and then advanced in the middle of England, stretching his legs when he began to accelerate. The proponents made their way while Terry Butcher pushed him to find it. However, a Shimmy brought him over Butcher’s extended leg, as he went down to the penalty area.
Next to trying to stop Terry Fenwick, which was just ahead before another shining on the right helped him around Shilton, and slid the ball quietly on the vacant net. In ten seconds, Maradona had traveled more than 60 meters and hit more than half of the team in England.
It was a goal of impressive brightness and individual flare and promoted the Uruguayan commentator Victor Hugo Morales to pronounce the immortal line, “I want to cry, O Holy God, Live Football! What a goal! “”
Later, Maradona fulfilled the English team by admitting that other side would have tried to fail him on the goal of the target, but the English let him go because they are “the noblest in the world.”
What happened after
Gary Lineker returned a goal for England and had a late opportunity to equalize, but Argentina kept the game for two goals to one. This led them to the semifinals where they met Belgium and, again, Maradona would show the hero, putting his side with a smart blow with the outside of the left foot. He then scored a goal that was almost a replica of his efforts against England, collecting the ball in space, and raised the four Belgian defenders before finding the back of the net.
Four days later, Maradona raised the second Argentina World Cup in eight years, while his side surpassed the German from West 3 to 2 in the final.
The man behind the goal
Diego Maradona was and is still greater than the character of life. Widely considered one of the best players to play the game, he was a little man who was a fantastic dribbler and passing, with a perfect ball control. Little stature with a low center of gravity, but with a surprisingly robust physique, he was able to overcome several opponents in a single play, as evidenced by the “objective of the century.”
However, it had a dark side and the controversy was never behind, as the “God of God” showed. He moved to Napoli in 1983 and helped the unmatched series to win his first league title in 1987, and then repeated the feat three years later. However, outside the pitch, he became addict to cocaine, begat several illegitimate children and had close relationships with the local bands of Camorra Mafia. And his time in Italy ended up in dysgracy after a 15 -month drug ban was delivered.
In the 1994 World Cup, he was launched in the tournament to fail a drug test, a mistake of errors after scoring against Greece showing his addiction to the world watching.
Since retirement, Maradona has not been one to avoid the prominence and has continued to achieve the headlines with their opinions and political opinions, and to carry out a series of jobs, including a manager, coach, director, television punishment and host of talks programs.
This goal remembered
Maradona’s second goal against England is still one of the most celebrated of all time, certainly in the Spanish -speaking world. Argentina saw the game itself as revenge on the indignities that Ramsey reached twenty years earlier, and for the humiliation of the War of the Faddins.
However, even in England, where resentment is still shown on the “God of God”, the audience has recognized the Genius of Maradona and his second objective, voting him number six in a survey of great sports moments of all time in 2002.
To quote the commentator Morales again )Little Cosmic Kite, which planet came, to leave behind so many English.,
