Diego Maradona’s handball versus England in the 1986 World Cup in Mexico. The Hand of God. What’s funny about this play is that Maradona starts it. He dribbles past a few players and he’s going to play a one two with a teammate but they miss control the ball and an English defender strangely seems to try to flick the ball back to the keeper in the air.
Maradona keeps running, having expected a give and go with his teammate and not the English defender….so the soccer ball is in the air and he just, you have to say, cleverly and with that genius he had, puts up his hand. The hand of god is born. This is what Maradona had to say about it: “I don’t for a second regret scoring that goal with my hand.” “Something that just came out of me. It was a bit of mischief.” From the Two Sides of Maradona, about the two amazing goals he scored that day, one with his hand and one with his foot.
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Maradona’s Hand of God
