Maradona: the one that got away?

Matthew Bell scours the archives to find the truth about the deal that never happened - Diego Maradona to Sheffield United

Aug 29, 2022

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Various versions of history relate that in 1978 Sheffield United could have signed seventeen-year-old Diego Maradona from Argentinos Juniors instead of Alejandro Sabella from River Plate. Such accounts have been repeated so frequently that the postulation has become generally accepted as fact. But how true is it?

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