Maradona’s shirt in the 86 final? Chiqui Tapia goes to Madrid to retrieve a “relic of world football”

“Day: August 25. Location: Embassy of Argentina in Madrid” indicates the coordinates coming from a telephone with characteristics of Spain. On the other side of WhatsApp, they anticipate “an act of delivery of one of the most important relics in the history of world football”. The image that enlarges the mobile phone screen allows you to see in the background Diego Maradona.

Anyone daring to connect the dots can solve a simple one: Maradona + relic = Diego shirt. The presence of Lothar Matthaus It forces us to guess that this is what happened under the Aztec sun at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico. “Don’t worry, Sherlock. I understand there are several coats”reveals a Madrid fountain with a message that self-destructs after reading it.

In addition to Matthäus, there will be the president of the AFA, Claudio TapiaThe ambassador Ricardo AlfonsinJournalist Victor Hugo Moralesthe executive director of The League from Spain, Oscar May Y Marcelo Ordasthe president of legendsa space that functions in a five-storey building in Madrid as a museum of world football.

Ordás is the same person who guarantees that the shirt was auctioned in May and that it bears the authentic signature and dedication of Maradona to the speaker José Maria Munozit was not used in the final that Argentina beat Germany 3-2. That, for which someone paid 50 thousand dollars, is a protocol that the French company that made them did not allocate on campus.

In an interview released in 2019, Matthäus detailed six meetings in which he shared court with Maradona. Facing each other in clubs or national teams, or in exhibition matches. What T-shirts can the Germans have?

The first, in 1982 in a friendly match between Germany and Argentina on 24 March with goals from Wolfgang Dremmler Y Gabriel Calderon. That day Maradona used the 10 blues and whites. It was Matthäus’ fourth match, he probably didn’t change that jacket.

Then, in the 1986 final, the occasion also in which the German had the mission to score the Argentine star. This is the announced relic! You can also have that of the 1990 final, but that shirt brings with it a defeat: it does not bode well for a world premiere and with the ambassador and the president of the AFA among the guests.

Another option is that of Napoli – probably changed from that of Inter, where the German played – or that of Sevilla in 1992, when they faced Bayern in a friendly match or that of Matthäus’s farewell in Munich.

“There may be one of those too, but what will be sure is the one he used in the final: Matthäus had it until shortly before Maradona’s death. The new owner is from Argentina. I can’t say more. “, he said. he can read on the screen before the message is cleared again.

The event will not be broadcast live, but before saying goodbye, the informant promised to send the material of the meeting. One week before the next World Cup, everything indicates that Argentina will recover the jersey with which Maradona raised the world championship.