"This is Diego Armando Maradona speaking to you, the man who scored two goals against England, and one of the few Argentinians who knows how heavy the World Cup is. Do you know what kind of player I would have been if I hadn't taken drugs? I would have been for many, many years the Maradona of Mexico. It was the moment of greatest happiness I ever felt on the field. My old man never complimented me and rarely said 'What a nice shot you took' or 'What a nice pass you made.' But after the match against England, when we met, he hugged me and said: 'Son, today you really scored a great goal!'

It’s time to tell things as they were. This was the true world championship of the Argentinians: the most competitive, the most moving, and the most deserved. [...] We were twenty-two crazy people ready to go to war, and I managed to instill the idea that playing in the National Team's jersey was the most important thing in the world, even though you could earn a lot of money wearing the jersey of a European club. Thirty years ago, we won the World Cup, the last one lifted by an Argentine National Team, with 25 dollars a day in rations.

It’s also time to talk more about the team and less about Bilardo's system. [...] We played against the English after a war where the children of Argentina went to fight in sneakers: this, parents told their children, and the children will tell it to their own. Thirty years have passed, and they still tell it." Thirty years after the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, Diego Armando Maradona narrates, for the first time and in the first person, unknown moments and stories from that unique world championship when he led the Argentine National Team in its journey to win the world title.

Reflecting on it today, that historic feat borders on legend: and he remembers and recounts, with a clear voice, how he achieved it, together with his teammates, against all odds. "The greatest player of Argentina narrates for the first time the entire story of his greatest victory... Unique!" Financial Times

"The legendary World Cup in Mexico in 1986 and the triumph that gave Maradona the name 'cosmic kite,' after the goal of the century against England, is the theme of this book, which is much more than that. It is the entire world of football." Kirkus Reviews