As long as he is there, I hope Argentina loses big time. The ball somehow trickled into the net.Replays showed Maradona used his left fist, not his head, to score.

They talk about contradictions. Here are some other famous football handballs; In the first round of the "Now I can tell what I couldn't in that moment, which at that moment I defined as the hand of God... What hand of God, it was the hand of Diego!

Diego Maradona uses his hand to find a way past England goalkeeper Peter Shilton to open the scoring. At the end of the first half, while the game was still tied at 0-0, Maradona was beginning to influence the end result of the match. What a goal! Argentina v England was a football match played on 22 June 1986 between Argentina and England in the quarter-finals of the 1986 FIFA World Cup at the Estadio Azteca in Mexico City.

"Later in the match, as if intent on showcasing his incredible potential, Maradona picked up the ball around the halfway line and toyed with the English players.

maradona in 1986 wc vs. England Asked in Soccer History , English Football , International Football Who was England goalkeeper when maradona scored hand of god goal in 1986 ? To please who? However, with minutes to go in regular time, Maradona threaded a pass through to Jorge Burruchaga, who calmly slotted it past goalkeeper Harald Schumacher to secure Argentina's second World Cup victory.Maradona would have more highs — and lows — in his career, but his exploits in 1986 will forever seal his status as one of the greatest players of all time.For more, see https://www.instagram.com/p/Bea9SdbFkIP/© 2020 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Satellite Information Network, LLC. Thank you, God, for football, for Maradona, for these tears, for this Argentina 2, England 0.Argentina's lead forced England into a double-attacking substitution, bringing on Barnes and Waddle, and it nearly paid off: as the Argentine team began to tire after their earlier efforts, England began to push further up the pitch, looking to get back into the game. Diegoal, Diegoal, Diego Armando Maradona! All I can do is move on. Through a myriad of dribbles, feints and sheer body strength, he scored what many consider the greatest individual goal of all time.Despite a late fightback from England, Argentina held on to win 2-1 and make the semifinals, where Maradona scored another fantastic individual goal against Belgium.In the final, West Germany contained him — up to a point.After coming back from 2-0 down, West Germany was looking strong.

Genius! Diego Maradona scores his Hand of God goal against England’s Peter Shilton in 1986.

If Maradona was a true sportsman, which he isn't, he would have admitted he scores using his hand to so so. The ball looped off his foot and into the penalty area, toward Maradona, who had continued his run.

At forty-seven I think that apologizing to the English is stupid. The ball went into the goal. I said only that the story could not be changed, that I do not have to apologize to anyone, because it was a football game in which there were 100,000 people in the Azteca stadium, twenty-two players, that there were two linesmen, that there was one referee, that Shilton (the goalkeeper) speaks up now and he hadn't noticed, the defenders had to tell him.

On this day: Maradona's 'Hand of God' against England in the 1986 World Cup Argentine legend Maradona had said that the goal came from "the head of Maradona and the hand of God… "I never spoke of forgiveness. "Argentina wasn't a one-man team at the tournament in Mexico, but Maradona made it look like it was.

Now this latest incident has brought the light back on him. And this was revenge”. So the story is already written, nothing can change it.

Diego Maradona scored one of the most underhanded goals in World Cup history in 1986, a goal that is known as the "Hand of God" Now I can say what I couldn't at that moment, what I defined at that time as "The Hand of God".