Maradona scored the WORST and BEST goal in history — in the SAME game #sportshistory #Maradona

In four minutes, one man scored the most shameful goal in football history — and then the greatest goal ever witnessed.

It was the 1986 World Cup quarter-final. Argentina versus England. Two nations still raw from the Falklands War just four years earlier. This wasn't just football. It was fury with a scoreboard.

51st minute. The ball drops loose in England's penalty area. Maradona leaps — and punches it into the net with his left fist. The referee doesn't see it. Argentina lead. The world erupts in outrage. And Maradona? He called it 'a little with the head of Maradona, and a little with the Hand of God.' He cheated. On the biggest stage on earth. And he knew it.

Then — four minutes later — Maradona received the ball in his own half. He turned. And for the next ten seconds, he ran through the entire England team. One. Two. Three. Four. Five players beaten. Then the goalkeeper. He didn't pass. He didn't stop. He just… scored. FIFA later voted it the Goal of the Century. The same man. The same game. Four minutes apart.

Diego Maradona was a fraud and a genius in the same breath. A cheat and a poet in the same four minutes. No player in history has ever compressed so much contradiction into a single afternoon. And no one ever will.

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