New Maradona forwards, wingers, or attacking midfielders. Although still widely contested among Argentine football players, in recent times the title has been attached to FC Barcelona forward Lionel Messi, an assertion supported by Maradona himself. Maradona and Messi worked together as manager and player for Argentina's national side at the 2010 World Cup, the former thoroughly impressed with the latter's skills. On 18 April 2007, Messi scored a goal against Getafe CF which was very similar to Maradona's Goal of the Century, scored against England in the 1986 World Cup. The world's sports press exploded with Maradona comparisons, and the Spanish press
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