The hand of God the goal. After the first half, the game was still tied. Maradona was beginning to unbalance the match, and when the sixth minute of the second half came, one of the most controversial moves in the history of the World Cup came: Maradona took the ball out of the box and with his left leg passed it to his teammate Jorge Valdano, who tried to take it among several English defenders, but the ball was intercepted and thrown back and forth, in his eagerness to clear, by defender Steve Hodge. Because of the inertia of the play, Maradona would have
Hand of God (art) Hand of God (art) The Hand of God, or Manus Dei in Latin, also known as Dextera domini/dei, the "right hand of God", is a motif in Jewish and Christian art, especially of the Late Antique and Early Medieval periods, when depiction of Jehovah or God the Father as a full human figure was considered unacceptable. The hand, sometimes including a portion of an arm, or ending about the wrist, is used to indicate the intervention in or approval of affairs on Earth by God, and sometimes as a subject in itself. It is an artistic metaphor that is generally