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News Report:
Sydney Morning Herald
12 June 2010
The perpetrator of the 'Hand of God' says referees have a duty to clean up football, writes Jeremy Wilson A drug cheat and the perpetrator of the most infamous handball in football history is, on the face of it, hardly the ideal ambassador for a campaign to promote fair play. Normal boundaries, however, have never really applied to Diego Maradona and so, without even a hint of irony, he used his final press conference before his first match as a World Cup manager to deliver a sermon on honest football. "Let there really be fair play, let the referees understand what the words 'fair play' mean," he said. "If you don't want to play clean football then go up into the stands."
So what would you have done?
Diego Maradona, a former Argentine Soccer star and the current manager of the Argentine team, played for his country 91 times, scored 34 goals and competed in 4 World Cups. In 1986, when captaining Argentina in the World Cup in Mexico, Argentina defeated England 2 -1 in a quarter final and went on to win the Cup by defeating West Germany.
Both goals against England were scored by Maradona, the first becoming known as “The Hand of God” and the second as “The Goal of the Century”.
