Part one: THE WORLD CUPS
Nov 27, 2020
4 minutes
Tim Vickery
When the news broke that Diego Maradona had died, most of the Argentine press illustrated the story with a recent photo. But that Maradona, the 21st-century version, will surely start to fade from the collective memory. Immortalised will be the Maradona of Mexico ’86, Diego at the peak of his powers, reaching a level of play in the closing stages of the competition that may never have been seen before or since.
1986 may well have been the last truly great World Cup, the final one that was seen as the outstanding measure of quality, before the juggernaut of European club football became the game’s main event. It was
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