On YouTube, there are two videos of highlights from the game. (1st half, 2nd half.) The moment in the photograph is about one minute and fifteen seconds into the second video. Maradona is fouled, and the referee awards Argentina a free kick, and gives a yellow card to Luc Millecamps. Osvaldo Ardiles takes a short free kick, passing it to Maradona. And this is where we see the moment that the photograph was taken. Maradona had not even touched the ball at this point. His left foot is raised ready to receive the ball. We can see in the video Ardiles is about to run directly through the Belgian players who made up the wall. And all of those players who, in the photograph, look like they are there to stop Maradona being awesome, are actually just breaking out of being a wall, eyes following the ball. Maradona attempts to cross the ball to a teammate on the left side of the box, but it’s cleared by Millecamps. The photograph… well, it tricks us.
Posted on: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 22:52:00 +0000
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