Ali Bin Nasser Ali Bin Nasser Ali Bin Nasser (also spelled Ali Bennaceur, ; born 2 March 1944) is a former Tunisian football referee. Nasser refereed the match between Argentina and England in the 1986 FIFA World Cup, where the "Hand of God" and the "Goal of the Century" were scored by Argentine captain Diego Maradona to win the match. For the "Hand of God" goal, Maradona punched the ball into the net, however, Bin Nasser stated that he did not see this and thought that Maradona had headed the ball. Both Bin Nasser and his Bulgarian assistant linesman Bogdan Dochev blamed each
Hand of God (art) is positioned strategically in the upper center of the composition, directly above the ram that the angel of God instructs Abraham to sacrifice in place of Isaac. In the Susiya synagogue, the hand of God appears on the defaced remains of a marble bimah screen that perhaps once illustrated a biblical scene such as "Moses Receiving the Law" or the "Binding of Isaac". Though the hand was subjected to intense iconoclastic hacking, the iconoclasts left some vestiges of the thumb and the receding fingers intact. A thumbnail has been carved into the thumb. Foerster asserts that the hand of God