In need of lightweight uniforms for the blazing Mexico City sun, Argentina's staff found makeshift alternatives in a Mexican ...

Just eight years after winning their first-ever World Cup on home soil, Argentina repeated the trick in Mexico at the 1986 World Cup. It all started with a 3-1 routine win over South Korea in the ...

Maradona’s room-mate at Mexico 1986 recalls how Argentina won their second FIFA World Cup and sizes up his nation’s chances at the upcoming global showpiece.

That is partly because Messi is such a phenomenon that, even in a world in which systems are far more important than individuals, he makes anything seem possible, but mainly it is because Argentina ...

If the history of film was once described as before and after “Gone with the Wind,” it could be argued that the history of the World Cup can be defined as before and after the game between England and ...

The 1986 World Cup, held in Mexico, featured 12 venues, 24 teams, 52 games and 132 goals, but to this day it is best remembered for the deeds of one diminutive man. Argentina defeated West Germany 3-2 ...

Diego Maradona, the Argentine soccer great who scored the “Hand of God” goal in 1986 and led his country to that year’s World Cup title before later struggling with cocaine use and obesity, has died.

In Argentina the 1986 World Cup quarter-final win over England looms large in the collective memory, so much so that a ...

Diego Maradona apparently boasted that his 1986 World Cup-winning Argentina team was better than the current squad now thrown into turmoil by Lionel Messi's departure, in a recording published ...

The 1986 Argentina World Cup team made history both at home and abroad as they secured a second title for the nation in just eight years. Diego Maradona more than anyone left an indelible print on the ...

If the history of film was once described as before and after “Gone with the Wind,” it could be argued that the history of the World Cup can be defined as before and after the game between England and ...