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Diego Maradona celebrating with the World Cup trophy after Argentina won the final against West Germany at the Estadio Azteca in Mexico in 1986.
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Overused, hollowed out and thrown about idly like confetti. That’s what the word “great” has been reduced to these days. Everyone’s “great”, just ask a fan about his team or a player about his clubmate. So everyone tries to qualify the word. Now there’s the all-time great. And the greatest of his generation. And the uncommonly great, who share a name with an animal which eats leaves and twigs.
The G.O.A.T.
