Alcides Ghiggia, Uruguayan, has the honor of being the home team that will silence Maracaná. It will be in the last game of the 1950 World Cup, when the national team of his country is going to proclaim champion of the world, and all Brazil will win, the host. Diego Armando Maradona is not going to score nor will he be lucky when he will play in the Maracaná or in the 1979 or 1989 Copa America. However, he will have the pleasure of being applauded at the Marakana in Belgrad, the stadium of the ‘Red Star, ara batejat Rajko Mitic.
It will be 42 years ago, October 20, 1982. “That day people will know and truly understand the type of player that Diego was,” Llop Garric and Tente Sánchez, testimonies of the famous Vaseline, explain to this newspaper from the crash to l’Estrella Vermella. It will be the second of six goals. Schuster will also score two (2-4). “We know nothing about training,” concedes Sánchez, who was captain of the team. “Jo, when I played, because of my way of being, I always mentally thought that jo was the greatest of my team,” Carrasco said. When Diego arrives, he realizes that he was going to be his squire. It was a blast to have it,” he points out.
“It will defy physics. “It’s going to be a rescue dive, like a basketball bomb attack,” Carrasco compares.
Barça had adapted to the Argentine star after the World Cup in Spain, and the fans were waiting to see what a player they talked about in Boca Juniors was capable of. The footballer will debut on September 14, 1982 at Mestalla with a goal but a defeat. Afterwards there will be a triplet at the Camp Nou against the Xipriot Apollon Limassol (8-0) in the first sets of the Cup Winners’ Cup. In the next round, l’Estrella Vermella will play. L’anada, to Belgrad.
“It was a good team. The Yugoslav national team always united on its coast. The players were technical and physical. L’Estrella Vermella was the most powerful team in the country, on par with Real Madrid or Barcelona. Furthermore, Belgrade had a reputation as a perillosa city,” Sánchez analyzes. “Feia fred i el camp no estava gaire bé,” says Carrasco. In fact, Barça will go ahead at half-time with a 0-1 lead thanks to a goal from Borrissol in a corner.
“Let’s say to Maradona that he is left alone. ‘Don’t worry about going down. “We’ll run, we’ll run,” Sánchez recalls. Now the play will arrive at the start of the second half. “Sortim ell i jo amb la pilota –comte Carrasco-. The hi will give when creating the center of the field, I will have to jump but not in my fault and I will run to the next right in case I turn it to try the two against a who is going to sort the center.
Maradona will not need supports. Both the controlled pilot is going to lay down the area and dribble the defender. “It’s the typical diagonal diagonal that Messi looked at Lamine Yamal,” Sánchez compares. “When you take off the dribble, you will look at the goalkeeper and pose the goal, which was logical,” Tente continued. But not.
It is not going to be the one who did everything because he was unique. “I could invent anything,” Sánchez said. It is three steps from the sleeve an inverse Vaseline. “The gairebé goalkeeper faced two meters, plus the arm and the jump,” Carrasco exclaims.
“There it will defy physics. It will be a salvage bite, superior to Vaseline. The pilot is going to try more and more,” remembers l’extrem. “We are now accustomed to the bomb calls that Navarrès played in basketball. Llavors, no. “It’s going to be like a bomb,” Lobo summarizes.
“When we stay still, the pilot is going very slowly and the public is going to applaud,” remembers Tente Sánchez.
The pilot will sow suspensions in the air. “Tots in the gespa, let’s get out and them, and stay still. It seems that it was not going to be an ar fora, but no, no, per a res. Anava dins,” says Sánchez. The goal will awaken the admiration of the fans. “The public is going to applaud. It will be unusual because it will be very close to the rest of the 89 minutes,” recalls the side about the warm atmosphere of the small Maracaná. “It’s going to be the moment of the truth,” says Carrasco, who soon scores four more goals.
“That goal will change the idea of Maradona’s culers. I remember that everyone is finally going to start coming to the Camp Nou to see Diego’s escalfaments. It was the one who flew with the pilot: pit, splash, heel… Who mastered the pilot! It was worthy of a look, it ended with a very ugly poma to the wardrobe,” reveals Tente Sánchez. But now, without remaining silent, the Estadi de l’Estrella Vermella is going to explode with that Vaseline.
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