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Hand of God (Reuters)
The ball with which Diego Maradona scored the famous “Hand of God” goal in the 1986 World Cup became one of the most expensive sports items of all time, when it was sold for no less than two million pounds at auction.
For those who knew and for those who didn’t, the person who owned the ball was none other than the referee of that match, Ali Bin Nasser, who decided to sell the match ball from the quarter-finals of the tournament in Mexico, where Argentina met England and won 1:2.
Maradona, who died in 2020 at the age of 60, also scored what was called the “goal of the century” in the same game in a tremendous slalom against the English. Bin Nasser, the Tunisian, now 78 years old, decided to sell the item, which also drew quite a few criticisms.
The English fans were angry that the referee is actually getting a lot of money for a mistake and injustice he did to the Three Lions team in the same tournament, but this replied to the British media: “I still sell it, I don’t care what you think.”
