35 years after the goal of D10S to the English, the play as never seen and related by the protagonists.
What happened to the life of each one of them and the details of the unique and unrepeatable moment in the history of world football.
06/21/2021 21:25
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Updated 07/07/2021 4:28 PM
35 years after Diego Maradona's goal to the English, the play as never seen and recounted by the protagonists.
What happened to the life of each one of them and the details of the unique and unrepeatable moment in the history of world football.
Below,
the actors and the scenery of a unique play.
First act
.
Aztec stadium.
It is approximately 1:10 PM on June 22, 1986. The thermometer reads 25 ° but the heat is suffocating in Mexico City. There are 114,580 spectators who are ready to see something never seen in the history of football. And that in that temple of football, which took four years to rise under the direction of the architects Pedro Ramírez Vázquez and Rafael Mijares Alcérreca and was inaugurated on May 29, 1966, Pelé and his Brasil del 70 had already been crowned. , in total, 19 World Cup matches. His name was chosen in a contest. It was proposed by Antonio Vázquez Torres de León, who in addition to winning the ticket, won two stalls for 99 years.
Hector Enrique.
The Black
.
River player, a right-hand midfielder, he was 24 years old and it was his fifth game in the National Team, his first as a starter.
The man who gave the "Pass of the Century" did not have much more tour with the blue and white.
He started in the semifinals and final and then returned for the 1989 Copa América, completing 11 games for the national team.
TODAY: He is a technical director. Dont have work. Manages a soccer field complex in Adrogué.
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Peter Reid.
He had turned 30 two days earlier.
He belonged to Everton and played as a central midfielder.
"I never thought that a single soccer game could have such a decisive effect on my life."
(Cheer up Peter Reid: My Autobiography - 2017)
Today: 65 years. Former coach (his last experience was in 2016 at Bolton). Work as a panelist.
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Peter Beardsley.
He was a striker for Newcastle United and was 25 years old.
It was his fourth and last game at the World Cup.
"Without the Hand of God we would have won. The second goal was magnificent, but without that first goal you cannot explain the second. It was a brutal turning point. Maradona was a fantastic player and is the reason why Argentina won the Cup. But what he did is wrong. We were eleven players scammed. "
(Interview with the newspaper El País)
TODAY: 60 years. Coach idle. He was suspended for eight months in 2019 for using racist language towards his players.
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Flower with sound.
The shadow that is projected in the middle of the Azteca playing field was a central set of speakers suspended from a cable in the middle of the field and at a height of 36 meters.
It had been placed a month before so that the voice of Melquíades Sánchez Oroño, the official announcer, reached more than one hundred thousand spectators.
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Kenny Sansom.
It was the left back who was constantly projected.
He was 27 years old and played for Arsenal.
Before the recovery, Enrique's pass and Diego's speed, he was always behind the play.
"I never felt such an amount of anger after a game," he confessed.
TODAY: He is 62 years old. He had serious problems with alcohol. In May 2020, after suffering a fall, it was reported that he was in the hospital with an undisclosed illness. It was revealed 6 months after he was diagnosed with Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome, a type of senile dementia.
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Diego Maradona.
He was 25 years old and played for Napoli in Italy. He was the Argentine captain and since 1976, he had 48 games in the National Team. A few minutes earlier, he had scored his 21st goal, his fourth at the World Cups. It is the famous Hand of God. “The other day at home I saw the game again, I saw the second goal and it continues to excite me, I always find something new, the bad start of Shilton or the pass from
Negro
Enrique. Because they fuck with that, but that's where I started. Another one out there threw it to shit, but he saw me and gave me the ball "
(Interview with Infobae of June 22, 2020).
TODAY: He died on November 25, 2020. After 1:00 p.m. on that Wednesday, his death was confirmed. He had just turned 60 years old. He was recovering from an operation for a subdural hematoma. He was the DT of Gymnastics and Fencing La Plata.
act II
.
Diego Maradona.
“I started behind the middle of the court, on the right;
I stepped on it, turned it, and passed between Beardsley and Reid;
there I already put the arch between eyebrow and eyebrow, although I still had a few meters to go ... ”
(Book" I am the Diego of the people ")
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Peter Reid.
On October 2, 2020, Gary Lineker shared an interview with Diego Maradona on his Twitter account.
And ironically he asked his former partner:
"It's you who holds the board, Peter Reid
.
"
The 64-year-old former defender responded with typical English humor, in a clear reference to never being able to catch up with him in Diego's memorable bullfight: “I wouldn't get that close to him.
Social distancing".
Is that you holding the board @ reid6peter?
https://t.co/esTm3JF8b4
- Gary Lineker 💙 (@GaryLineker) October 2, 2020
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Sport Billy.
It was the name of the Fair Play trophy that began to be awarded by FIFA in 1966. Originally, Billy was a well-known comic book character in Europe.
FIFA used the following criteria to win the award: “The behavior of players on the field;
their behavior before and after games;
and such items as proper uniforms and dressing on the field ”.
The winner in Mexico 86 was Brazil, who had also won it in 1982.
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Camel.
The cigarette brand belonged to the RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company, which was an official FIFA sponsor in Spain 1982 with Winston and Mexico 86 with Camel.
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Coke.
The multinational company of soft drinks and non-alcoholic beverages, on everyone's lips (even more so) in this Euro 2020 due to the affair with Cristiano Ronaldo, is the only one that remains as a sponsor of the World Cup since 1982. Mexico's 86 was the second World Cup.
Third act
.
Peter Reid.
“Sir Alex Ferguson once said that seeing me run behind Diego in that World Cup in Mexico was like 'seeing an old horse chasing Frankel (N. de la R. the famous English thoroughbred who was the most expensive horse in history ) ".
(Cheer up Peter Reid: My Autobiography - 2017)
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Philips.
It was the first year that the Dutch electricity company was a FIFA sponsor at the World Cup.
It continued for five more World Cups, until 2006.
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Jorge Burruchaga.
Burru
.
He was 23 years old and played for Nantes in France.
An undisputed for coach Carlos Bilardo since 1983, when he began his cycle against Chile.
In the World Cup he had already scored a goal against Bulgaria.
TODAY: He is 58 years old. He is a coach. It is unoccupied. His last job was as a manager at Independiente.
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Canyon.
The Japanese company specialized in optical products and image capture and reproduction products accompanied the international federation as exclusive sponsor from Spain 82 to France 98.
Act four
.
Diego Maradona.
"With an inward hitch, I passed it to Butcher, and that's where Valdano started to help me, because Fenwick, who was the last one, wouldn't come out! I was waiting for him, I was waiting for him to download to inside, which was the logical thing ... If Fenwick left me, I gave it to Valdano and he was alone against Shilton ".
(Book "This is how we won the World Cup in Mexico 86")
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Terry Butcher.
The Singapore-born central scorer was 27 years old and played for Scotland's Glasgow Rangers.
He was a starter in all the World Cup matches.
"I hate Maradona," he confessed years later in a television interview.
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TODAY: He is 62 years old. He was a collaborator of Giovanni van Bronckhorst at the Guangzhou R&F in China. He currently works in the lower houses of Ipswich Town.
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Budweiser.
The beer brand belongs to the St. Louis, United States-based company, Anheuser-Busch.
Mexico 86 was the first World Cup as a FIFA sponsor.
He repeated in 1990 but was absent in 1994. He resumed in 1998.
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Jorge Burruchaga
The former Independiente player accompanied Diego's run as a privileged witness.
“Yes, I feel like Maradona's compadre.
With Diego it is easy to play ”.
(Only Soccer Magazine, June 1986)
Fifth act
.
Diego Maradona.
“But Fenwick wouldn't come out!
I faced him, then, I feigned inside and went outside, to the right ... He shot me a terrible scythe, Fenwick!
I continued and I already had Shilton in front of him ”.
(Book "This is how we won the World Cup in Mexico 86")
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Terry Butcher.
“I was angrier about the second goal because of the way he beat me.
He beat all the other England players just once, but he seemed to beat me twice.
Little bastard ”, he recounted almost two decades later.
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Terry Fenwick.
It was the first center marker for Bobby Robson's team.
He was 26 years old and played for Queen's Park Rangers.
He played all three matches in the first phase and was absent in the round of 16 against Paraguay.
TODAY: Now, at 61, he leads the Trinidad and Tobago National Team and is also a Premier League TV analyst for Flow Sports, a Caribbean channel.
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Jorge Burruchaga.
"The genius of world football, leaves the clothesline and goes to play for Burruchaga," said Víctor Hugo Morales on Radio Argentina.
But the pass never came.
Sixth act
.
Diego Maradona.
"I was in the same place as in that Wembley play, in the same place! I was going to define in the same way, but ... but
Barba
(God) helped me,
Barba reminded
me ... Pie. .. I did like this and Shilton ate the feint, ate it ... Then I got to the bottom and made him, tack, inside ... At the same time Butcher, the big blond man, who had hit me again, hit me a kick! But I didn't care about anything, nothing at all ... I had scored the goal of my life ".
(Book "I am the Diego of the people")
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Terry Butcher.
“He is a cheater.
I will never let go.
I still hate it with a passion.
He is loved here in Scotland, of course.
I still have it around my neck most days here ”.
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Peter Shilton.
The goalkeeper was 26 years old and played for Southampton.
In the four previous games he had only conceded one goal, in his debut against Portugal.
"We just said we would watch his races, we would try to cut him off and not let him get into his rhythm. For almost an hour it worked," he later recounted.
TODAY: 71 years. He gives talks to groups and companies. He is the footballer who played the most games in history.
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Gary Stevens
.
The right-back was 23 years old and played for Everton.
He came from the other side when Diego was already completing his work. "What a talent #Maradona," he wrote on his Twitter account a day after Diego's death.
What a talent #maradona
- Gary Stevens (@GaryStevensUK) November 26, 2020
Today: he is 58 years old. In 2002 Stevens graduated from the University of Salford with a degree in Physical Therapy and then worked as a physical therapist at the Bolton Wanderers Academy. Later, he became a Chester City manager. In 2011 Stevens immigrated to Perth, Australia.
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Jorge Valdano.
The forward was 30 years old, he played for Real Madrid and it was his second World Cup.
"His goal has been of extraordinary beauty and fulfillment, in that play he has shown that he is the best player in the world," he said after the game and was published in
Clarín
the next day.
TODAY: he is 65 years old. He is a technical director, but he works as a commentator on different sports signals from Spain and Mexico. He also takes part in the program El Transistor, by Onda Cero.
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Coat.
It was the only World Cup in which the Swiss footwear company, founded in 1894, was a sponsor of the World Cup.
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Seiko.
The Japanese watch brand was a FIFA sponsor for only two years, in Spain 82 and Mexico 86.
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Guiñazú, Córdoba.
The flag was carried by Guido Agustín Prieto Terán and his wife Cristina Flores, who lived in Guiñazú and emigrated to Mexico at the end of the 70s. They made the cloth with a white canvas and to paint it they used bitumen.
The Prietos, originally from Bolivia, had a Tutuca factory in Guiñazú.
Seventh act
The genius is consummated, Diego has just signed his great masterpiece.
/ Clarín Archive
Diego Maradona.
“I felt Butcher's kick to the right, to my ankle, which broke it.
The joy of the goal was so great that it didn't hurt me ”.
Terry Butcher.
“It was an extraordinary goal.
It made me want to stand up and applaud him.
It was a work of art of an extraordinary player ”, the English defender later said.
Final
Diego hugs Burru, one of the luxury spectators of his goal.
/ Clarín Archive
Diego Maradona.
Raudamente out towards the corner with his right fist aloft as Butcher is dropped on the lawn.
Detrás, Jorge Burruchaga va a su encuentro. Lo alcanza, lo abraza y le dice: “Qué pedazo de gol, hijo de re mil...”. Llegan Sergio Batista y Julio Olarticoechea y los cuatro se funden en un gran abrazo en un rincón del Azteca.Mientras un inglés está atónito, Diego regresa al campo de juego, se arrodilla en el césped del Azteca y eleva una plegaria de agradecimiento por ser el autor de tan magnífica obra. Se acerca Jorge Valdano, lo abrazo y luego contará: “Cuando llegamos al vestuario me dijo que durante toda la jugada había estado buscando un hueco para darme el balón a mi que venía en el segundo palo acompañado. Nos da una referencia de la cantidad de idas aprovechadas y desechadas que pasaron por su cabeza en un espacio de 10 segundos. Así funciona la cabeza de un genio en acción”.
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