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    How Maradona and Argentina won the World Cup

    Nov 27, 2020 3 minutes
    Jonathan WILSON

    TECHNICALLY SPEAKING

    From the moment he landed the Argentina job in 1983, Carlos Bilardo knew he had to build his team for the 1986 World Cup around Diego Maradona. In 1982, Cesar Luis Menotti had played Maradona as a classic No.10 behind a front two and it hadn’t worked. As opponents focused on closing Maradona down, knowing he was at the heart of all their creativity, he ended up being kicked into relative ineffectiveness, before eventually being sent off as he lashed

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