Traffic and 80kg of gear: how Longoni exposed the Hand of God
Stuck in traffic and with 80kg of gear, Longoni captured the shadow that fooled the world. The proof that TV lost.
Eduardo Longoni, stuck in a traffic jam and dragging 80 kilograms of a portable darkroom, managed to capture irrefutable proof of the 'Hand of God' goal from a terrible angle at the Azteca Stadium. Forty years after Diego Armando Maradona stunned England and the world, attention shifts to the photographer who documented the crime with his analogue camera. While the television broadcasts missed the crucial gesture, Longoni's lens froze the exact moment in which the 'shadow' of the Argentine number 10's hand hit the ball.
