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Touched by God: How We Won the Mexico ’86 World Cup

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The long-awaited firsthand account of the most remarkable—and controversial—World Cup triumph in history, from the legendary player who made it that way
 
“That is Diego Armando Maradona speaking, the man who scored two goals against England and one of the vital few Argentines who knows how much the World Cup in reality weighs”
 
In June 1986, Diego Maradona—certainly one of soccer’s greatest and most polarizing figures—proudly hoisted the World Cup above his head. Since then, Argentina’s World Cup victory has turn out to be the stuff of legend, particularly their infamous victory over England—only four years after the country’s defeat in the Falklands War—which featured arguably the most productive goal in history (Maradona’s “Goal of the Century”) and the worst (the notorious “Hand of God”). But Argentina’s victory came after months of struggle and discord within the team, including the Argentine government’s attempt to take away the team’s management, a loss of equipment that forced the players to shop for their own uniforms, and an argument that caused the team’s captain to quit at the eve of the tournament. Now, thirty years after Argentina’s magical victory, Maradona tells his side of the story, vividly recounting how he led the team to win one of the vital greatest World Cup triumphs of all time.

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