Argentina 2-1 Peru

Messi on the missing list in eye of the storm

October 11, 2009
By Harry Harris
Diego Maradona looked like Jurgen Klinsmann on ice when he propelled his ample belly along the wet ground to celebrate a remarkable victory by his besieged Argentina over Peru.

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For those of us who stayed up late enough to watch a game the old Argentina would have skated, but who, almost contrived to lose, it was a fitting conclusion to a bizarre occasion.

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