Marcela Mora y Araujo

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Football Daily · Memories of Mexico '86 · 9 Jun 2026 podcast

And there was a lot of criticism from the press and from the public generally.

So when they actually won the World Cup and the game against England being a huge stepping stone there,

There's this kind of incredible sense that Maradona has shown everybody, proved them wrong.

And if you've seen the film Heroes, which was the official FIFA footage of that World Cup, there's a scene where the Argentinian press officer of the Football Association allows the cameras into the dressing room and they're all shouting, we dedicate this to everybody, full of obscenities as if it was, you know, a real point to prove, which has...

Been married on his relationship with the press right up until 2010 when he was manager and he also kind of dedicated obscenities and profanities at various journalists, you know, to prove.

But I think this idea that he had to prove himself against the world is what...

And I think if the second half of those few minutes hadn't been the most incredible goal anybody's ever seen, you know, the goal that Dutch people say is a miracle and Bangladeshi people pray to and so on.

And even Lineker himself has said he wanted to clap at the other end of the pit.

You know, there's no one that wasn't...

If it had just been the hand goal, then that would have been a completely different story to Maradona.

And if it had just been the amazing goal, it would also have been a complete... So that sort of yin and yang of the ugly and the beautiful is what totally embodies him and personifies him, the game of football itself and perhaps Argentina's relationship to it.

Well, it's huge.

I mean, we'll have to see where 26 hides it or diminishes it somehow.

It was very revered as the last great thing that happened and it was obviously Maradona's World Cup.

The 78 has a lot of other issues.

But of course, as the generations come through that maybe didn't even see that one, we have now got the 2022 in Qatar.

I said 26 because I'm, you know...

living the dream but we haven't won that one yet the 22 World Cup might end up shadowing it but the 1986 World Cup is enormous and that final where Maradona doesn't dominate because he's essentially marked out of the game they were so prepared for it so these three completely different lovely goals that people cherish happened each one giving rise to a whole range of literature and songs and so on

And Buruchaga's Long Race Against Death is a sort of title of a short story by one of the most eminent football literates in Argentina, Juan Sasuray.

Little details happen and then they become enmeshed in the sort of folklore of the country and everything we believe and love.

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