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Diego Maradona scored two goals against England in the 1986 World Cup quarterfinal. The first was a blatant handball he credited to "the hand of God." The second, scored four minutes later, was the greatest individual goal in the history of the sport. Those two goals — the cheat and the masterpiece, four minutes apart — captured the entire contradiction of a man who was simultaneously the most gifted and the most self-destructive athlete of his generation.

This episode traces Maradona from the Buenos Aires slums through his rise at Boca Juniors, the Naples years that made him a deity in southern Italy, the cocaine addiction that destroyed his career, and the chaotic final decades that ended with his death in 2020.

• Maradona's childhood poverty in Villa Fiorito and his discovery as a teenage prodigy
• The 1986 World Cup — the Hand of God, the Goal of the Century, and the tournament he won alone
• The Naples years, the Serie A titles, and the cocaine spiral that brought him down
• The exile, the comebacks, the coaching career, and the death that plunged Argentina into mourning