A few things Mike Tyson and Diego Maradona have in common:
Just because Michael Jordan was great at basketball, doesn’t mean he’s great at baseball. Just because Arnold Schwarzenegger was a great (and we use that term loosely) actor, doesn’t mean he’s a good governator. Just because Silvio Berlusconi is a great womanizer, doesn’t mean he can run a country or AC Milan for that matter. And just because Maradona is one of football’s all-time greats, doesn’t mean he should be coaching Argentina. We also suspect that he’d be a below average Argentine folk singer.
Who can remember the smoldering heat of Mexico City’s Azteca Stadium, Argentina were already a goal up against England (due to divine intervention according to Argentinean folklore)…. In a sequence of outright mind-blowing passage of play, Diego Armando Maradona at the halfway waltzed, tangoed, foxtrotted and rumbaed his way past almost the entire England team to score what has since been selected the greatest goal in the history of football. He may be considered as one of the most disreputable figures in English sporting history, but the talent clearly was there for all to see. His vision, skill, speed and above all his endurance was the stuff of legends. He was born to play the game…
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Spain is trying to conquer the world again. This time, they might succeed.
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