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  • I don't want to bang on but this:

    The Maradona of 1986 wasn’t an accident or a product of
    anthropological forces. In Italy Maradona had worked relentlessly at
    finding the right tempo to play, the best way to weaponise his skills
    in a brutal defensive game. Italy taught him to play in high-speed
    bursts, to spot the moment of weakness, to ration out his strength and
    his capacity to take the blows. Mexico 86 was the reward.

    from https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/nov/27/brave-intelligent-diego-maradona-was-a-man-who-moved-through-different-air

    Is good and essentially summarises the Diego doc where he goes off and trains with his own coach to do this.

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