Touched By God - Diego Armando Maradona

Touched by God: How We Won the Mexico '86 World Cup

by Diego Armando Maradona, Daniel Arcucci



The (long-awaited) firsthand account of the most remarkable--and

controversial--World Cup triumph in history, from the legendary player who

made it that way



"This is Diego Armando Maradona speaking, the man who scored two goals against

England and one of the few Argentines who knows how much the World Cup

actually weighs"



In June 1986, Diego Maradona--one of soccer's greatest and most polarizing

figures--proudly hoisted the World Cup above his head. Since then, Argentina's

World Cup victory has become the stuff of legend, particularly their infamous

victory over England--only four years after the country's defeat in the

Falklands War--which featured arguably the best goal in history (Maradona's

"Goal of the Century") and the worst (the notorious "Hand of God"). But

Argentina's victory came after months of struggle and discord within the team,

including the Argentine government's attempt to remove the team's management,

a lack of equipment that forced the players to buy their own uniforms, and an

argument that caused the team's captain to quit on the eve of the tournament.

Now, thirty years after Argentina's magical victory, Maradona tells his side

of the story, vividly recounting how he led the team to win one of the

greatest World Cup triumphs of all time.


https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32024572-touched-by-god



ISBN-13 : 978-0143129769

Publisher : Penguin Books

Publication Date : (May 30, 2017)

Pages : 256 pages





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