Witnessing the 'Hand of God'
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Welcome to The Fifth Floor from the BBC World Service with me, Farinak Amidi. The BBC World Service broadcasts in 45 languages around the world. Our job here at The Fifth Floor is to bring you the best of those stories in English and to also get you closer to the extraordinary work our journalists do. Every single World Cup has its standout personalities and talking points. Fans have been as delighted by Lionel Messi's performance in this tournament, his sixth World Cup, or by the standout style of Democratic Republic of Congo superfan Lumumba Vea, as they have been sometimes baffled by hydration breaks. But only a handful of moments are remembered down the decades. In 1986, in Mexico City, Diego Maradona scored two goals for Argentina in a match against England that will never be forgotten.
That's a poor clearance. Maradona with Shilton. Looked like handball, that. Maradona's celebrating and the goal's going to be given.
Was your hand or the hand of God?
It was my hand. With this, I don't mean any disrespect to English fans.
Today, we are remembering Diego Maradona's notorious hand of God. And World Service News editor, Lourdes Heredia, it turns out, was there. Lourdes, welcome to the fifth floor.
Hi, hello. Can you imagine being 40 years ago? I cannot believe that it has been four decades already.
You are one of the witnesses of the hand of God, Lourdes. Set the scene for us. It's 1986, it's Mexico City, and you're 17.
I'm 17, and I'm just, I'm not a football fan. And I never watched a match before, actually. the hand of God was my first and last match I've seen. And so I feel a little bit guilty because I was witness of one of the goals that people keep talking about. And it was just pure coincidence. As you can imagine, we Mexicans, we love to host people from all around the world. We have massive parties because it's a World Cup we celebrated. In 1986, it was no difference. But the tickets were quite expensive. So we didn't have any tickets. And my father's, I think in the office, someone had some tickets and nobody could use them. So my father calls my mom and say, do you want to use them? But I'm a little bit worried because they wore Falklands Malvinas happened not long ago.
And that meant that he was worried about the violence in the match. But my mom said, you crazy? We are going. This is one chance opportunity to be there and to live. the World Cup inside the Azteca, which is an iconic stadium for us. So there we go. Everywhere was a party. Like, you know, the Azteca is so far away from my house. It's from one side to the other. So we got in the car and, you know, it was two hours drive, which was a party. Everyone had flags everywhere. We were chanting to one car to the other. And that hasn't changed. If you see any of the images right now, It's just a great atmosphere. We love partying and we don't care about the stereotypes. We wear everything traditional and we're very proud of it.
I remember dressing up like crazy because I was going to see all these handsome boys. What were you wearing?
What were you wearing?
I was wearing something really yellow and, you know, something very traditional Mexican style. And also, it's like it brings all our stereotypes. We enjoy them. So we wear everything that you can imagine. Hat bands. Everyone was face painting. We just celebrate. We carry the sombreros very proudly into the stadium. And there was a completely different way of how it is right now, right? The security was much less. You could bring things in the stadium. Outside, they were selling all type of food. because we love street food in Mexico, it's great.
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