Foot nostalgia: Maradona and the goal of humiliation in the Clasico Real-Barça

"For a ball, there is no better experience than being on Maradona's left foot."

Jorge Valdano knows his subject, he who scored in the final which saw Argentina's Maradona be crowned world champion against Germany (3-2), in 1986. If they shared the colors of the Albiceleste, Valdano also faced Maradona in the Real jersey, when “El Pibe de Oro” (the golden kid) played at FC Barcelona.

But Valdano was not yet in Madrid when the number 10, with the purest expression of his genius, shocked the Merengues and their supporters.

“I asked the defender for forgiveness.

He said to me: “go fuck yourself…” ”

Diego Maradona

The 1982-83 season keeps a unique place in the history of Spanish football: it was the scene of the first League Cup in the country.

Removed after 4 editions, this ephemeral competition was intended, as in France in particular, to increase club income.

And the tournament has kept all its promises, with a Clasico at the peak.

At the Santiago-Bernabeu stadium, Francisco “Lobo” Carrasco opened the scoring in favor of Barça (50th).

Then “El Diez” entered the scene.

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"Carrasco gave me the pass in the middle of the field," Diego Maradona recalled in the columns of the daily

.

I dribbled the keeper, I waited for Juan José (the defender of Real, editor's note) and I let him pass. "

While the goal was wide open, the Argentinian made a hook that was as futile as it was humiliating for Juan José, feinted.

"He hit his balls against the post and I just had to push the ball into the net," commented Maradona trivially.

Insolent of ease, the Barcelonan saw the Madrid public stand up to applaud him.

An unprecedented fact in an often animated, sometimes sulphurous rivalry.

Only Ronaldinho (2005) and Andrés Iniesta (2015) have been able to capsize the hearts of enemy supporters since.

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On the pitch, Maradona's goal was variously appreciated.

Starting with Juan José, victim of “Maradonian” virtuosity.

“As I returned to my seat, I asked her forgiveness,” said Maradona.

He said to me: “Go fuck yourself…”.

He sent me shit. "

José Salgaro, he could only bow after the meeting in remarks reported by

 : “Diego was admirable.

At the slightest opportunity, he scores a goal for you. "

Real Madrid finally snatched the draw at home (2-2) before falling to Camp Nou in the return leg, with a penalty goal from Maradona (2-1).

The Argentine did not give his best years to Barcelona, ​​but he left them a moment of eternity in the most prestigious of posters.

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