Monday, Jul. 14, 1986
People
By Sara C. Medina
He accounted for all his team's goals in the quarter- and semi-finals, but Diego Armando Maradona, 25, won soccer's World Cup for Argentina last week by not scoring a single point. Throughout the final match against West Germany before a Mexico City crowd of nearly 115,000, the short, burly superstar with the pumping-piston legs played the decoy, drawing suffocating attention from as many as three defenders whenever he got the ball. A foul against him led to the first score, and with only six minutes remaining in the game, Maradona angled a perfect pass to Midfielder Jorge Burruchaga, who made a brilliant one-man run for the third and winning goal. Nobody seemed happier about Diego's underemployment than Diego himself. "Today we showed that Argentina is much more than Maradona," he burbled after the 3-2 victory, when as captain he had made the obligatory triumphant circuit of the stadium on the shoulders of his admirers, bearing aloft the 11-lb. gold trophy. "Maradona is only part of the team."