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Joe Mewis

‘With Maradona around we’d have won USA 94. We lost our lighthouse, our leader - we struggled to change our mentality, to play as a team without him’ How Diego Maradona’s drug ban cost them another World Cup victory

Diego Maradona celebrates passionately after scoring for Argentina against Greece at the 1994 World Cup.

It was perhaps the most iconic image of the 1994 World Cup in the USA.

A wide-eyed Diego Maradona, crackling with intensity, ran to the nearest television camera and screamed with joy after he netted a brilliant group stage goal against Greece.

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