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World Cup Legends #180: Jorge Burruchaga

And so we start our countdown of classics with a World Cup winning goalscorer. 'Burru' was a midfielder in Carlos Bilardo's Argentina side of 1986. Inspired as a boy by their 1978 home victory, he rapidly grew in popularity despite the similarity of his name to 'Burro', spanish for Donkey. I always wondered how he might cope. But donkey he was not as he took the honour of receiving Maradona's sublime pass and netting a 3-2 winner over a resiliant German side, who had come back twice from behind. So resiliant in fact that four years later the final threw up a rematch, a rather more sombre affair, which the Germans won. 1-0. That settles that then.



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