13 June 2019, The Tablet

Compelling portrait of flawed soccer legend Maradona


Compelling portrait of flawed soccer legend Maradona

Maradona’s turbulent life and career took him from pop culture pin-up to the threat of jail
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The face of God is unknown to us. But many millions have witnessed the Hand of God, immortalised in film from the 1986 World Cup quarter-final in Mexico when Argentina’s superstar captain, Diego Maradona, palmed the ball into the England net – and got away with it.

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