In a statement on social media, the Argentine Football Association expressed "its deepest sorrow for the death of our legend", adding: "You will always be in our hearts." For me, the COPA MUNDIAL is my very favorite model, and I have no objection to its debut at the ’82 World Cup. However, the situation of football boots production at the time of its debut was very chaotic, and it didn’t make such a big splash and was used by many players with great acclaim from the start. Just one look at the King Diego Finale will tell you Puma haven't had too much of a radical overhaul. But then when you have a boot that has enjoyed success for over forty years, you don't necessarily need to tamper with a winning formula. The famed high levels of craftsmanship and quality return, with an even softer full grain leather upper and some nice re-design touches improving the boot. But beneath the Maradona customisation, we mustn't forget that what is being shown to us here is the brand new Puma King Finale football boots, the follow-up to the Puma King XL football boot which had an almost exhaustive list of colourways. So what can we expect from the next generation of this iconic range...

I believe the COPA MUNDIAL made its debut in the 1982 World Cup tournament, but I think very few players actually used it. Maradona played for Barcelona and Napoli during his club career, winning two Serie A titles with the Italian side. He started his career with Argentinos Juniors, also playing for Sevilla, and Boca Juniors and Newell's Old Boys in his homeland.

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It should have been Peter Shilton's, but the goalkeeper reacted a crucial half second too late in going for the ball. Argentina's technical assistant Ruben Moschella and kit man Tito Benros were then charged with trawling around Mexico City to find a shirt suitable to play a World Cup quarter-final in. They narrowed it down to two, the first a similar colour to the existing kit and another in a brighter blue. Brown summed up the feelings of many of the Argentine players. "You get to the centre of the pitch and they play the national anthem and I'm telling you, it was like I put a knife between my teeth. I wanted to see if I could get revenge by winning a match," he said.

Around 1975, the Adidas moulded studs flagship model, the “ WORLD CUP WINNER ,” was released, but around 1979, it had the same shoe’s tongue mark as the “ World Cup 78” .The Club America residential quarters near the Azteca stadium contained one telephone for the entire squad and one television, situated in the dining room. On arrival, players had to fit the shades on to the lamps in their unfinished rooms. There were rooms some 100 metres away from the players' quarters where four had to stay in conditions that made the rest of the facility look good. Four-time NBA champion James, now 36 and playing for the Los Angeles Lakers, has arguably fulfilled predictions of being the best ever. A piece of sporting history in the form of an early LeBron James basketball top is also available (Julien’s Auctions/PA)

Recently, an overseas football boots enthusiast wrote an article here, which included the followingMaradona led his country to the 1990 final in Italy, where they were beaten by West Germany, before captaining them again in the United States in 1994, but was sent home after failing a drugs test for ephedrine.

And, if at one time good enough for World Cup winners and God-like figures, why have the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi then not opted to continue the PUMA King’s rich football heritage? The warm-up by Maradona that day reeked of nonchalance. Maybe some arrogance, too. This was his biggest game to date in club football -- Napoli were 2-0 up on Bayern after the first leg, but nothing was guaranteed away from home in those days -- and this was how he approached it. Maybe its ostensible ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ model has grown somewhat stale in a market much more crowded than it ever was in the 1970s and ’80s. But amid all that, the boots he wore that summer have become iconic. They are inseparable from the man and that summer when he led his country to victory over West Germany in the final. Before that, especially when it was made in West Germany at the time of its debut (around 1982), there were various minor changes, which we introduced here. However, there seems to be a misunderstanding about the year of its debut, and it is often referred to as “1979” overseas.

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He would never play for Argentina again and remained convinced there was a conspiracy between Maradona and coach Bilardo to sideline him. He later admitted: "We all declared before the game that football had nothing to do with the Malvinas [Falklands] War... Rubbish!"