The day the USA witnessed Maradona's last World Cup goal

Football is in mourning.

This Wednesday Diego Armando Maradona passed away at the age of 60, as a result of a cardiorespiratory arrest.

, as he established himself as one of the greatest in all of history and the

Diego

played his last World Cup in North American territory in 1994 and together with a golden generation, the Albiceleste squad looked like one of the main candidates, before their doping scandal, which

The defunct Foxforo Stadium, predecessor of the current Gillette Stadium, was the site of the Argentina team's debut in the USA 94 World Cup and paradoxically, it

, scoring the third goal in the thrashed against Greece.

Diego defined a great goal with his prodigious left foot and shouted it as if he knew it was the last he would do with the Argentine National Team

, that that June afternoon he added his first three points in the United States, without knowing that four days, 'El Pelusa' would leave competition after an anti-doping test.

His goal against the Hellenic squad meant Diego Armando Maradona's 34th goal with the Argentine National Team, which he led to his second world championship in Mexico 86, with

, in which he scored one of the best world goals.

Diego's "legs were cut off"

In an image never seen before in the history of the World Cups, Diego Armando Maradona was withdrawn from the contest, after at the end of the match against Nigeria,

Maradona left the field accompanied by a nurse and those were the last moments of Diego with the Albiceleste;

days later the Argentine himself made a historic statement that went around the world, as he claimed that

Rest in peace, Diego Armando Maradona.