Unedited video: Maradona’s goal never seen in color and which Diego has defined as the best of his career

Diego Armando Maradona transformed 346 goals in 680 games played during his more than 20 years as a professional footballer: free kicks, memorable stacks such as against England in Mexico in 1986, a well-remembered one that left a genius from goal like Fillol sitting on the ground in a Superclásico, volleyball, left-handed, right, head and also with the hand. He made them in all colors.

​However, there is one that has nothing to envy to those iconic goals of the Ten’s career and who only now, more than 25 years after his retirement with the shirt of Boca Juniors, It was possible to log in with good image quality. It was in the shirt Young Argentines in friendly and therefore does not appear in the official records. A very Maradona goal.

It happened on February 19, 1980. He was 19 and everyone was already talking about him. He had just been anointed youth champion with the Argentine team the previous year, having been chosen as the player of the tournament played in Japan, and had been the top scorer in Argentine football in three different local leagues with Argentinos. He will do it twice more, to seal a record that he maintains in solitude to this day.

The father bug was preparing for the Metropolitan Tournament and went on tour to Colombia. It is that he had to generate income in order to keep Diego in his team, the great figure to which offers came from all sides. And in one of those meetings in the coffee lands they faced the Pereira Sports, with a brilliant Maradona who scored one of those goals that only he could score.

“It was from the center of the field. They threw everything at me, flying kicks… and of course, when they threw me I was punching the ball and they stayed on the ground. In the photo it is when I push it, pass to the goalkeeper and they are all lying down in a row”, he recalled years later in dialogue with journalist Pablo González on Sin Cassette, a program of Tyc Sports.

Although this move has always been talked about and those present remember it with great nostalgia, there were no film recordings until a poor quality black and white video appeared in 2013. Edgar Perea’s story was the only thing that allowed us to understand what was happening. Now, a brilliant restoration job lets you see those color images with greater clarity.

“It seemed crazy to think of manually coloring and restoring nearly 900 frames, but with patience and persistence, it came together. And it’s not finished yet. Thanks to Deportivo Pereira fan Luis Fernando Castro who helped us confirm some colours,” he tweeted. Damiano Emilio Carrilloone of the restorers.

Thus, football lovers can know what Diego called his finest goal, even above the “goal of the century” against England, even if there he seems to have exaggerated a bit. For stadium, rival and execution, what became the Azteca stadium on 22 June 1986 is unbeatable.

“I didn’t have to play, but I played because otherwise they didn’t pay us and the kids didn’t get paid. My toe had been stepped on and it was black. Dr. Madero infiltrated me, but did nothing to me. Not because Dr. Madero was bad, but because he wasn’t there to infiltrate. It was a disaster,” he recalled the prelude to that match which finished 4-4.