Diego Maradona, widely regarded as the greatest footballer of all time, triumphantly raised the 1986 Mexico World Championship Cup in his hands in June of that year. After a controversial sporting career and more than thirty years since that legendary match, Maradona now shares for the first time the unseen tales behind that one-of-a-kind World Cup. Mexico '86 was the pinnacle of Maradona's career, and in this book he discusses every match, what transpired following each one in the locker room, the months leading up to the World Cup, including how the team had to travel to Mexico City one month earlier than planned to avoid Alfonsin's overthrow of the technical director, and the mystery surrounding "El Gran Capit?n" Passarella ('78 World Cup Champion), the strategies and tactics that revolutionised the game, training in a country that was recovering from an earthquake, the public's hostility, the jerseys they went out to buy in Mexico City, the meeting in Colombia where the team really came together, his relationship to drugs: the clean World Cup, and the best goal in football history. Mexico '86 is Maradona's World Cup and Maradona is who he is because of that World Cup. Explosive, gritty and unapologetic, Touched by God tells the inside story of one of the greatest football victories of all time.