Quote Originally Posted by Master View Post
Maradona's peak was 1986 not 1982.
Wrong. Maradona and his team won the World Cup in ‘86. And he was fantastic. But in the lead up to ‘82 , Maradona was a player that it was hard to believe existed even when you saw it with your own eyes.
After the ‘82 WC , Maradona went to Barcelona and got into trouble on and off the pitch, started to be led astray, and in ‘83 had his ankle broken by that violent tackle from The butcher of Bilbao , Goikoetcchea. That tackle would’ve finished a lot of people’s careers. He’d had hepatitis, loads of cortisone injections and obviously started taking recreational drugs because he was a superstar.
Without all of this imagine what a player he could’ve been.