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Triumph Football

Maradona's Two Goals Against England

No single player in any team sport has produced such extremes of genius and controversy in one performance.

1986 · 22 June

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In a single World Cup quarter-final against England, Diego Maradona scored the most controversial goal in football history — punching the ball in with his hand and claiming it was "the Hand of God" — and then, four minutes later, ran 60 metres past five defenders and the goalkeeper to score what was voted the Goal of the Century.

No single player in any team sport has produced such extremes of genius and controversy in one performance.

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