You may forget a match and not be able to remember its events, but it is difficult to forget the wonderful goals scored by the stars of the round witch, whose names are immortalized in football records, and remain to this day stuck in everyone’s minds.
Goal Morning is a daily report in which we present every morning a collection of the most beautiful football goals scored by the game’s top stars.
The World Cup was held in Mexico for the second time in 1986, and despite the participation of 24 teams in the tournament, and 132 goals scored throughout its events, there was only one player who was the most prominent among all, and one goal was also the most beautiful of all, and of course the player was Diego Armando MaradonaAnd the goal is his legendary goal against England.
Argentina national team He met his English counterpart in the quarter-finals of the tournament, and after the match remained for 51 minutes without any goal, Maradona scored the most controversial goal in the history of football, as he hit the ball with his hand into the net, without the referee knowing what happened, and he went out after the match to make his statement. It is famous that “God’s Hand” scored the goal.
And after only 4 minutes, Maradona scored the most beautiful goal in the history of football, and the goal that was named after him from this day, and he also called it the “goal of the century”, as he dodged 5 players from the English national team, including the goalkeeper, before he hit the ball into the net, and led His country to the semi-finals, and then to the final match, where the Tango team was crowned the title, and the championship was historically attributed to Maradona.
The late legend Maradona said the story of the goal in his book “I am Diego”: “It was the confrontation with England, June 22, 1986, another day that I would never forget in my life, and two goals remained in the memory. About the second goal, I remember a lot of things. Whenever I skipped an English player, an Englishman appeared. else”.
He added, “In fact, this goal was the goal of dreams. Since I was a child in the village of Fiorito, I dreamed of scoring a goal like this, but it came on the best possible occasion, in the World Cup, in the Argentine shirt, and in a final match.”
And he continued: “As I dribbled the English players before the goal, I remembered my brother, less than 6 years before this goal, specifically on May 13, 1981 during a friendly match between Argentina and England also, at Wembley Stadium, I was about to score the same goal, it was a very similar attack, After a break of dribbling, the goalkeeper pounced on me, and the shot went out of the goal, and my brother admonished me at the time, telling me that the best solution was to dodge the goalkeeper and not rush to shoot.
And he continued: “My brother was seven years old, but he had an insightful vision. I followed his advice against England also in the 86th at the Azteca Stadium. My plan was to go deep, and then I would pass to Valdano, who started from the left.”
And he continued, “I thought that the last defender, Fenwick, would advance and pounce on me, and at that time I would give the ball to Valdano, but he waited in his place until the last moment, so I decided to confront him, and dodged him, but the ball took too long, and before goalkeeper Shelton thwarted the attack, I dodged him to his right, as my brother advised me.” , and recorded.”
He concluded, “It was a duplicate of the Wembley attack, and the goalkeeper was at the same distance, but the final decision was different. The Lord helped me, made me remember Wembley and my brother.”