Diego Maradona for the winning goal in the final, ensuring that he would be remembered as one of the greatest names in football history. By the end of the World Cup, Maradona went on to win the Golden Ball as the best player of the tournament by unanimous vote and was widely regarded to have won the World Cup virtually single-handedly, something that he later stated he did not entirely agree with. Zinedine Zidane, watching the 1986 World Cup as a 14 year old, stated Maradona “was on another level”. In a tribute to him, Azteca Stadium authorities built a statue of
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