I’m 8 minutes and 30 seconds of pure magicof eternity, the same as it has reached Diego Armando Maradona for all Argentine football fans and who this Sunday, October 30, will remember (and celebrate) the greatest player of all time who would have turned 62 years old. FIFA, within a compendium of tributes, has chosen to put together a large collection of the most extraordinary plays in which the eternal 10 played during the four World Cups he played with the Argentine national team.

There you can see from that debut with the left against Belgium in Spain 1982 (0-1) to the last performance in Boston in the United States 1994, when he gave the aforementioned assist to Claudio Caniggia for the victory over Nigeria, before “cutting him off. legs”.

With his four World Cup appearances, Maradona is, along with Javier Mascherano and Lionel Messi, part of a list of “record players” of the Argentine national team in the top event. If there is no inconvenience Flea Rosario will overcome it in less than a month, in Qatar.

Maradona is currently also the Argentine footballer with the highest number of World Cup appearances: 21 (followed by Mascherano with 20 and Messi with 19).

Figure 4th among the players with the most appearances, behind Lothar Matthäus (25), compatriot Miroslav Klose (24) and Italian Maldini (23). With 21 games, alongside Diego, include legendary German forward Uwe Seeler and Polish defender Wladyslaw Zmuda.

Among the scorers of the World Cup, ranking led by Klose with 16, Maradona is the second best Argentine with 8, together with Stábile. Batistuta leads, with 10.