Watch: FIFA highlights all the brutal kicks suffered by Diego Maradona in the Mexico 1986 World Cup

🇦🇷 Un día como hoy en 1986, @Argentina y Maradona eran campeones del mundo. 🏆

En esa #CopaMundialFIFA, Diego lideró y brilló, pero también 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨́ a todo esto. 😮 pic.twitter.com/1j3Ni3lurh

— Copa Mundial FIFA 🏆 (@fifaworldcup_es) June 29, 2023

Maradona suffered a record 53 fouls at Mexico 1986. Overall, he won a 152 free-kicks at the World Cup, which was easily more than his nearest rival, Brazilian Jairzinho, who earned 64 freekicks and was the most fouled player at Mexico 1970.

Maradona, 25, led his side and played every minute of their World Cup journey, scoring five goals, includingt the most famous “hand of god” against England in the quarter-finals and providing five assists.

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A magician with the ball – deceptively quick and a visionary passer – Maradona is considered by some as the greatest soccer player ever, edging out that other great, Brazil’s Pele. In Argentina, he was worshipped as ‘El Dios’ – The God – partly a play on words on his number 10 shirt, ‘El Diez.’

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The legendary footballer died, aged 60, after suffering a cardiac arrest in 2020.