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‘It’s more about telling a story about the man than a moment in football’
Asif Burhan interviews legendary sports photographer STEVE POWELL about his life’s work and ‘that photo’ of Maradona
Diego Maradona storms past Belgium’s defenders during the 1986 World Cup in Mexico
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EARLY in the second half of the opening match of the 1982 World Cup, Osvaldo Ardiles feigned a shot from a free kick and instead passed the ball to his 21-year-old team-mate standing beside the defensive wall.
His attempted chipped pass was comfortably cleared by the Belgium defence. A move typical of a game in which the defending world champions, Argentina, floundered during a 1-0 defeat.
During this otherwise unremarkable play, high up in the upper tier of Barcelona’s Camp Nou, a 30-year-old photographer with little experience of shooting football, had captured an image which would live in the consciousness of the sporting world far longer than the result of the game and even outlive the subject of the picture, a young Diego Maradona.
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