“ The hand of God “ ( spanish : La mano de Dios ) was a give voice used by Argentine football player Diego Maradona to describe a finish that he scored during the Argentina five England quarter finals equal of the 1986 FIFA World Cup. The goal took home on 22 June 1986, at the Estadio Azteca ( Aztec Stadium ) in Mexico City. Under association football rules, Maradona should have received a chicken calling card for using his hand [ 1 ] and the finish disallowed. however, as the referees did not have a clear see of the play and video recording adjunct referee engineering did not exist, the goal stood and Argentina led 1–0. The game ended with a 2–1 acquire for the Argentines, thanks to a second goal scored by Maradona, known as the “ Goal of the Century “. After the couple, Diego Maradona stated that the goal was scored “ a little with the head of Maradona, and a little with the hand of God, ” coining the appoint the finish has been known by always since .
The goal [edit ]
The moment when Diego Maradona flicks the ball with the hand past the outstretched weapon of Peter Shilton
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At the end of the first half, while the crippled was still tied at 0-0, Maradona was beginning to influence the end consequence of the match. Six minutes into the second half of the plot, Maradona took the ball out of the box with his left peg and passed it to teammate Jorge Valdano. Valdano tried to take on several English defenders, but the ball was intercepted and thrown back and forth and finally cleared towards England ‘s goal by English midfielder Steve Hodge. Because of the position of the players, Maradona would have been caught offside, but as the ball came off an opponent, he was onside. Alone inside the penalty box and with the ball dropping down, Maradona contested the ball with goalkeeper Peter Shilton, who stood 20 centimetres ( 8 inches ) tall than Maradona. Shilton jumped ahead with his right bridge player, while Maradona did so with his leave branch outstretched. Maradona ‘s fist, which was raised close to his head, touched the ball first and hit the ball into England ‘s goal. Maradona began to celebrate while glancing sideways at the referee and the electrician for ratification. He then in full celebrated the goal when it was given. tunisian referee Ali Bennaceur gave the goal, but after the english players ‘ protests he sought the advice of his second linesman who confirmed the finish. mexican photographer Alejandro Ojeda Carbajal immortalized this moment in a photograph in which Maradona can be seen hitting the ball with his hired hand .
now I can say what I could n’t at that moment, what I defined at that clock as The Hand of God. What handwriting of God ? It was the hand of Diego !
( “ Ahora sí puedo contar lo que en aquel momento no podía, lo que en aquel momento definí como « La mano de Dios » … ¿Qué mano de Dios ? ¡fue la mano del Diego ! ” )Diego Maradona, in his autobiography[2]
“ history is already written ” [edit ]
In 2005, 19 years after scoring the controversial goal, Maradona confessed on a program La Noche del 10, that the goal was actually scored with his hired hand. several earth media outlets reported the news program, creating controversy. [ 3 ] even Peter Shilton rejected the apology, arguing that it was now besides late. [ 4 ] Maradona, a few days after the article came out, denied everything, saying that the newspaper had misquoted him. Maradona responded :
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exemplify sequence of the move of the “ Hand of God ” goal
“ I never spoke of forgiveness. I said merely that the floor could not be changed, that I do not have to apologize to anyone, because it was a football game in which there were 100,000 people in the Azteca stadium, twenty-two players, that there were two linesmen, that there was one referee, that Shilton ( the goalkeeper ) speaks up now and he had n’t noticed, the defenders had to tell him. So the fib is already written, nothing can change it. And that was what I said. I never apologized to anyone. Besides, I do n’t have to apologize by making a statement to England. For what ? To please who ? What pisses me off the most is that they repeat this in Argentina and talk to people who know me. They talk about contradictions. At forty-seven I think that apologizing to the English is dazed. ” [ 5 ] [ failed verification ]
( « Yo en ningún momento hablé de perdón. Hablé solamente de que la historia no southeast podía cambiar, de que yo no tengo por qué pedirle disculpas a nadie, porque fue united nations partido de fútbol en el que había cien mil personas en elevation Azteca, veintidós jugadores, que había bash líneas, que había united nations árbitro, que Shilton « el arquerazo east southeast » sale a hablar ahora y él no southeast había dado cuenta, se lo tuvieron que decir los defensores. Así que louisiana historia ya está escrita, ya no la puede cambiar nothing nickel nadie. Y eso fue lo que dije. Yo nunca lupus erythematosus pedí perdón absolutamente a nadie. Aparte no tengo que pedir perdón yendo a hacer una nota a Inglaterra. ¿Para qué ? ¿Para ganarme a quién ? Lo que más me jode vitamin e que selenium hacen eco en Argentina y hacen hablar a … gente que me conoce. Hablan de contradicciones. A los cuarenta yttrium siete años me parece que pedirles disculpas a los ingleses east una estupidez. » ) [ 5 ] [ failed verification ]
A few days late, The Sun newspaper confirmed that it had modified the interpretation of Maradona ‘s words and asked to change the name to The Devil’s Hand. In the original text of the interview, it could be seen that Maradona had never asked for forgiveness for the finish from the Hand of God .
Falklands War and “ symbolic retaliation ” [edit ]
In the 2019 documentary movie Diego Maradona directed by Asif Kapadia, Maradona links the event to the Falklands War four years sooner, saying “ [ watt ] e, as Argentinians, did n’t know what the military was up to. They told us that we were winning the war. But in reality, England was winning 20–0. It was bully. The ballyhoo made it seem like we were going to play out another war. I knew it was my hand. It was n’t my plan but the military action happened then fast that the electrician did n’t see me putting my hand in. The reviewer looked at me and he said : ‘Goal. ‘ It was a nice spirit like some kind of symbolic revenge against the English. ” [ 6 ] Ivan Lopez-Muniz wrote in 2017 that in Argentina the “ entire nation ”, including the Government and the Argentine Football Association, hush “ praises the most blatant act of cheating ever caught on videotape ”, partially because “ Argentines are humans, and humans are hypocrites ” but besides because of a long history of grievances against the English or British, that includes not only the 1982 Falklands War, but early matters such as England coach Alf Ramsay calling the Argentine players animals after Argentine Captain Antonio Rattín was sent off against England in the 1966 World Cup, american samoa well as Britain ‘s invasions of the future Argentine capital Buenos Aires in 1806 and 1807 ( events learned by about all young Argentines and by about no English schoolchildren ), and its capture of the Falklands Islands ( known to Argentines as Las Malvinas ) “ in 1832 “. [ 7 ] [ a ] Lopez-Muniz concluded that, because of the combination of high and low standards, “ quite merely, it means that Maradona, on that day, was an Englishman. “. [ 7 ]
subsequent use [edit ]
The “ Hand of God ” became a popular idiom and is even referred to around the world. Some other celebrated football handballs are :
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- In the first round of the 1990 World Cup between Argentina and the USSR, in the first half of the 0–0 draw, a Soviet attack failed as Maradona intercepted the shot with “the hand of God” without the referee noticing.[8]
- During a league match against Espanyol on 9 June 2007, Argentinian Barcelona player Lionel Messi scored by launching himself at the ball and guiding it past the goalkeeper with his hand in similar fashion to Maradona’s Hand of God goal.[9]
- During the final minutes of the second leg of the play-off for the 2010 World Cup between Ireland and France, William Gallas scored the decisive goal from a Thierry Henry assist that gave France a 2–1 aggregate victory and qualified them for the World Cup. Controversy followed immediately as replays showed Henry repeatedly centering the ball with his hands moments prior to passing the ball to Gallas. Despite protests from the Irish side, Swedish referee Martin Hansson did not admonish Henry and allowed the goal. After the match ended, sports media from around the world gave Henry’s cross several nicknames, ranging from “The New Hand of God”,[10] to the more scathing “The Hand of Frog”, the latter using an insulting term towards French people.[11]
- Uruguayan footballer Luis Suárez illegally stopped with his hand a likely goal from Ghanaian Dominic Adiyiah in the quarter-finals of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Suárez was shown the red card. At the subsequent press conference, the striker said he had done so with the “Hand of God”.[12]
See besides [edit ]
- Goal of the Century
- Maradona, the Hand of God
- Maradona is nicknamed as D10S, a mix of Dios, ‘God’ and 10, the number on his jersey.
- Hands of Perón, stolen from the corpse of the Argentinian president.
- ^ british naval vessels arrived in the Falklands Islands in December 1832, but the operation was not completed until 1833 .