http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD17Fx_fnK8

that's actually a nice quote, apart from the cursing.

"I am black or white, and will never be grey in my lifetime"

I gotta remember this

Argentina apparently always has needed some extra divine help. Maradona doesn't strike me as a religious man for one who has invoked God's hand so many times in his career. Whether he cares or not, outside of Argentina his reputation remains dubious and conflicted. The real glory should go to Martin Palermo's amazing last gasp goal over Peru. That was truly something.

My sympathies are with Uruguay: classy enough to have first volunteered to host the World Cup and still classy today. Now the rest of the world has to put up with a unique brand of brazen histrionics.

"God's hands" was an obvious metaphore, no one thinks he was actually claiming to have had help from God.

"Whether he cares or not, outside of Argentina his reputation remains dubious and conflicted. "

I think his reputation is conflicted everywhere, in Argentina too. But he was the best football player of the 20th Century, and no one can take that away from him now.

Uruguay still has a shot against Costa Rica.

@"But he was the best football player of the 20th Century"

I beg to differ. Pele, anyone?

Pele was the second best.

Xapi +1
Maradona the best for me, but maybe I haven't seen enough from pele...

no like argentina will go very far anyways..

History tells us that the way a team is playing prior to the World Cup usually has little influence over how well that team ends up doing in the Cup itself.

Two Argentinian examples are BIlardo's '86 team (with Maradona) that won the Cup after barely qualyfing with some horrible play, and Bielsa's 2002 squad, wich blazed through the qualyfiers with some great play and ended up going home after the first round.

I'm not saying with this that Argentina WILL get far, but that the dice haven't been cast yet, anything can happen in a World Cup.

Maradonna good, Pele better, George Best.