World Cup Mexico 1986 Memory Lane --> Top 20 Goals

[Paradigm]

For the youth and for those of us who need a nice little flashback. I was 12 back then.

[EKBATAN]

Negrete #2 was the best one of them all

some of the goals were average though lol

[KC McElroy]

This was the best World Cup and the last one where players actually cared about winning it as opposed to now where club takes priority over country and the game is so coached and devoid of individual creativity that horrible teams like Spain can win titles. My favorite goals were Negrete against Bulgaria and of course Maradona against England.

[Zamboor]

This was the best World Cup and the last one where players actually cared about winning it as opposed to now where club takes priority over country and the game is so coached and devoid of individual creativity that horrible teams like Spain can win titles. My favorite goals were Negrete against Bulgaria and of course Maradona against England.

dont worry i talked to AJ he told me he and KH is going to bomb spain back to the 14th century seeing

[KC McElroy]

I was 14 during this World Cup. For the final, which wasn't broadcast live (as were none of the games), my second cousin and I (both of whom were routing for Argentina) waited for the 10:30 news on channel 2, knowing that at the end they would be giving sports news and probably an update on the score. In fact that was the first piece of sports news that they gave and announced the score as 2-0 for Argentina. We started celebrating but before the newscaster even finished the news piece he announced there was an update and now the score was 2-1 for Argentina. He gradually got into other news but then suddenly broke away from it to announce that the score was now 2-2. We both felt so dejected and were thinking if it went to PKs West Germany would have the upper hand (due to Schumacher). But just as the news started winding down they had one more update and announced the score was now 3-2, and following a pause by the newscaster clearly to create anxiety amongst the viewers, for Argentina. We again started celebrating knowing there wasn't much time left although my second cousin did comment "khoda koneh Maradona gheresh begireh va yek gol chaharom ham be Alman bezaneh".

[Asghar Agha]

At that time, there were no such loos and soosool players like Ibra or Ronaldo, Anelka, Beckam ...
Maradona's goal against England was simply fantastic. Ironically, I think later on, Oxford University gave the Honoris Causa doctorat to Maradona.