The rebuilding of the blue shirt final finish with a shiny 10 in which Diego Maradona recorded two emblematic World Cup goals in Mexico 86, it no longer has a lap. The goals shirt, the one with the hand and the most impressive and unparalleled, is the one to be auctioned in June, contrary to the statements of Dalma Maradona and her mother Claudia Villafañe.

The tour is documented with interviews conducted for the book The battle which takes into account every possible aspect of that encounter, including the fate of the shirts exchanged after the game. steve hodge He retained number 10, which three days before that semifinal was part of a game waiting for a buyer at any sports business in Mexico City, without a shield or signs of official dress.

“Maradona came in after the game with the 18 shirt, yes,” he admitted. Oscar Garre in a chat with Clarion. Why do we consult him as if he were a scribe? To confirm a story that says Diego changed Hodge’s jersey but had it in his hands as long as it had to walk from the mixed zone to the Argentine’s locker room: when he saw Garré had 10 Gary Linekers, he approached with a proposal.

“How can I not change Maradona’s shirt? I always say I changed it first with Lineker and then with Maradona”celebrate with pride.

“The other day we talked in a chat (with the ’86 champions) about that controversy, there were two sets of shirts … What I didn’t imagine at that time was the figure that was expected. available. Someone told me.: How much will you get for the Lineker? ” he said laughing. The one that certainly has no resale price outside the average is the Hodge. Where are we, we pictured “the other shirt”, surgeon?

“Unfortunately I didn’t have my shirt before they came to rob me and among other things they took 18 shirts “, Garré lamented and ended the controversy about whether the auction was the one for the purposes. Without that memory, What is Garré’s current wealth from México 86?

“I had a ball signed by everyone. I got on the plane, in return. Many years later, the ball is now not in the best condition, but it is. Tshirts? Not much, sometimes my kids take them to play baby and they get lost“, he says without the slightest hint of remorse at this kind of material loss. Garré values ​​other memories.

Don Diego (Maradona) and Coco (Villafañe, the captain’s father-in-law) once cooked us a barbecue and if you look at your pictures around, we all dress differently, no official attire at that time, as now, and as it should be. That was other times. We can’t imagine what the passage of time has done, “he recalled.