I'm lucky enough to have seen him in his time. I thought he was the perfect player. His flaws only made him a better footballer in my eyes. They enhanced the myth of the mutant, a man specially designed for the game and nothing but the game. After the final whistle he was an utterly lost human being, but on the field he did things no one thought were possible, and suspected should be illegal. Sometimes they were illegal. But there was nothing that could stop him. The semi of 1986 is so perfect an illustration of who Maradona was as a player that it is still hard to believe it actually happened the way it did. Scoring the two most famous goals in football history, his brace devastated the originators of the game in the most ungentlemanly way. First by cynical deception, and four minutes later, by flagrant superiority. To think what he could have done on a skateboard with those marvelous feet!