Key Highlights
- “I witnessed perhaps one of the most sublime moments in the history of football,” he says, retelling a story that has become a pillar of his life. Zamora, a Mexican football fan, does not remember how his father, Antonio, got tickets to the 1986 World Cup quarter-final between Argentina and England at the Azteca Stadium in Mexico City.
- But he does clearly remember the goals: first when Diego Maradona used his “hand of God” to push the ball past England goalkeeper Peter Shilton.
- And then the “goal of the century”, where the Argentinian went on a slalom run, dribbling past half the England team before scoring. Analysis: how prices for the cheapest World Cup tickets have rocketedRead moreIn those days, tickets in Mexico were sold in packages of 13 for about $150 per person to see all 13 games [about $442, or £330, today].
- “I have very vivid memories and others that are a little blurry.
- I remember being afraid of the height of the stands; we were in the cheapest seats,” Zamora says.
