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
The hand of God hand by French footballer Thierry Henry that was not sanctioned by Swedish referee Martin Hansson, and which was named by the press as "The New Hand of God". Uruguayan footballer Luis Suarez stopped a goal with his hand in the quarter-finals of the 2010 World Cup. At the subsequent press conference, the striker said he had done so with "the hand of God". On October 12, 1941, Mario Morosano, Newell's Old Boys' forward, scored his third personal goal and his fourth against his classic rival Rosario Central with his hand, being the predecessor of "the hand of God". He finally