Marcela Mora y Araujo
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But historically, you know, they've been...
Classic, emblematic games against the English.
And Maradona, of course, had already scored the goal of the century or his second goal or a version of it at Wembley.
And then his brother said, you should have gone just slightly more to the... So he remembered that, but he...
Yes, the weight, the symbolic weight of doing, not just doing both those things, like the handball, which is the kind of the ugly side of football or the cheeky, you know, everything that's possible happened in those few minutes.
But the second goal as well, and it being against the English, that really...
carries more weight than it had been against Brazil or Uruguay, which would also have been legendary.
I mean, Maradona is a very unique character and everything from...
The nightmare of drowning and his uncle pulling him out, which has been published several times over by the world's journalists, unlike anyone else's psychoanalyst sessions, to his incredible poverty, which is also common to most professional footballers in Argentina, if not the world.
He shares a lot of common points with most humans and certainly with a lot of little boys from what we think of as developing countries.
On telly from a very young age, we all knew who he was.
We saw him playing keepy-uppy before matches as a child.
There's footage of him saying what his dream is and of his brother saying, I think maybe he comes from Mars.