Diego Maradona’s goal to the English and the advice of his brother Hugo

The Turk Maradona will be remembered for some moments of his pendular football career but above all for the stories he was part of with his most famous brother. And among them, one of the most notable may be having appeared in Diego’s unconscious at the climax of his mythical second goal to England in 1986: “I defined as my brother the Turk had told me”.

The captain of the world champion team revealed that appearance. The story dates back to a friendly that England and Argentina played on May 13, 1980 at Wembley Stadium.

Maradona received a pass from Juan Barbas in three quarters of the court and, in a circular dribble, eluded four Englishmen. Then he was in front of goalkeeper Ray Clemence, but instead of facing and dodging him he defined to the left and the ball skimmed the stick.

“He had made a very similar play, but very similar (to that of 1986 at the Azteca Stadium) and I defined by touching it to the side when the goalkeeper came out. The ball went out for this, for nothing, when I was already shouting the goal“Maradona recalled in his book” I am the Diego of the people. “

The play was not crowned with the goal and Diego lamented. Obviously, no one recriminated anything until hours later he spoke on the phone with his family and on the other side the Turk, who was only 7 years old in those days, reproached him.

“Boludo! You shouldn’t have played (defined). You would have threatened him, if the goalkeeper was already thrown “. Diego’s surprise was enormous and he replied: “Motherfucker! You because you were watching them on television “. But his younger brother’s response was lethal: “No, Pelu, if you threatened him, you hooked out and defined with the right, do you understand?”

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It is seen that the reproach of the Turk resonated in Diego’s memory because six years later, during a match against the same rival but in the final round of 16 of a World Cup, Maradona defined as his brother asked him.

After eluding four English markers (five if you count the one who crossed it twice in the race), Diego entered the area, faced the goalkeeper and, Instead of defining how he had done it that time, he chose to dribble Peter Shilton to the right and then he did kick the goal.

Days after the ’86 World Cup, Diego Maradona said that the Turkish advice had been key in that goal which was chosen as the best in the history of the world championships. It was even believed that it was one of the many hypotheses that he thought about that play. But not.

What is certain, and he himself told it in his book, is that his younger brother’s correction was present in his unconscious: “Many things were said. Like I didn’t think of a piece of advice from my brother at the time. No, not at the moment, but then I did realize, something will have come to my head, because I defined how my brother the Turk had told me “.

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