Breathtaking. This makes me sad Diego is gone. Seeing someone so young and so utterly brilliant is quite something. A football genius.

Here Diego is just 19 and he is already superstar, all world new him and that was in 1979, No internet No social media. Now figure what he was for the football world. RIP Diegito

Happened to only read in the newspapers how incredible this soccer player was with hardly ever seeing him play in those days. Now, watching his video footages after many many years, due to the emergence of internet, and realizing how great a player he was. It is hard to believe that he is gone too soon and is no more. Rest in piece, Diego ~ ❤from India.

I'm not one for comparisons, just one who enjoys brilliance. The emergence of Maradona was the most electrifying thing to happen to football for me. We had never seen anything like him at the time (being too young to remember Pele)

Glad and honored to have had him driving our city football team to 2 of the 3 soccer championships of the Napoli team. His spirit is still alive in our streets and our stadium is dedicated to him. ❤

El Diego was always special! His dribbles, passing and through balls were a treat to watch. He was unique. RIP the true goat 🐐

There will never be a Maradona again..the artist ,the genius ,the magician... football era will always be defined in terms of before Maradona and after Maradona

Watching a genius at the game, Playing the game ,loving the game, making a good living at the game, Diego maradona never ceased to amaze me, been watching this game since 1966.There has never been anyone like him, many have got near , but never surpassed.

What a fair Austrian commentator. He enjoys every nice movement on the pitch even if it’s from Argentine.

He was genuinely so much ahead of his time!

As a lifelong soccer player and fan since the early 80s I've seen all the highlights of all the giants countless times. I've always felt Maradona was the most gifted player (most natural talent) to ever touch a ball. I guess it's hard to define talent, but what I mean is that the ball seemed to belong to him more than it did to anyone else, as if he knew the ball better than anyone else, like it was a part of him more than anyone else. Watching him touch the ball, run with it, and play with it, was like watching a graceful cat run down its prey or watching water somehow find its way through cracks passing around corners and tight space with speed and grace. Even when he was falling it was like a ballet. Messi or Pele are the other two that come to mind of course, but I think Messi wins over Pele. Messi has scored probably more solo dribbling goals than Maradona did, and more solo runs from half field which is amazing that anyone else could beat Maradona in that, and yet Messi's play has always looked a little robotic to me, a little more rigid and less graceful. Like somehow he tapped into what works to beat defenders better than anyone else, and yet doesn't have the same level of natural giftedness for ball control if that makes sense. Even if it makes sense, does that matter? I guess not in terms of end results, but there just seemed to be this magic that came from Maradona and his gait that I don't think anyone else can get close to. For the longest time (probably until about 5 years ago) I said Maradona was the best player ever without hesitation, even during the height of the Messi hype. Now I hesitate and am not always sure if I can say that it's Maradona, but I still stick by my statement that he is without a doubt the greatest natural talent to have touched a ball. Talent doesn't always get you the furthest since there are always other factors at play. In this case, I still would probably vote Maradona as best footballer ever, but don't feel as strongly about my choice as I used to. Messi could easily be chosen. Pele or George Best rank third for me.

El pisotón que mete Luque es criminal...lo de Diego es poesía. Fillol era de goma. Grandes jugadores de Argentina.

MARADONA has sth special no other player has.you can enjoy any touch he did.its a joy to watch him ...an artist.

The dribblings Diego pull off between 3:08- 3:12 are unbelievably Alien. His technique was absolutely perfect and made him a unique beast, ONE in ONE. The best EVER

0:42 football was crazy back then, it looked like rollerball sometimes. You couldn't get away with a tackle like that today.

soccer used to be so beautiful, spontaneous and dramatic, lot of blood and guts, i love this old games , i was a kid back then , it was so much easier to identify yourself with the players, today we have robots from the incubators playing in super teams that follow perfect tactical plan, today its like watching two computers playing and whoever has better algorithm and better machines wins

Ver a Diego , ver tocar el balón , es como ver un reves de Federer a la linea , ELIXIRES del deporte ❤

Kurt Jara goal was insane.

Maradona born with a Gift for being the Best Football Player around the world .. He was a complete Footballer.. Run and fight every ball .. Even better than Messi, and no question about it..!!!!!! 😊👌🤗😍❤🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈

Interesting thing is that Austria had a really good team in those days. Herbert Prohaska was an elite player. That makes the big win by Argentina all the more impressive.

Thank you for this great video! I have not seen any footage of this match yet but i am proud to say that i was watching it live from the stands and i remember being excited in the days before because of the upcoming Superstar Diego Armando Maradona! The second and last time i watched Maradona live was in Munich. Bayern against Napoli (the very same match this legendary life is life Maradona warm up video was made).

Guy was a genius…best player ever imo

So many maradonas. They all have the same hair

Maradona is the best for all Time ❤

Que golazo de luque!! Maradona una bestia

I have watched many Maradona's games. This game just shows how good he was at passing the ball. He always passes the ball ahead of his teamate so his teamate does not have to slow down in order to get the ball. I guess what really make Maradona great is how he control the flow of the game through passing the ball.

That Austrian team was not a minor team, quite the opposite. It had great players like Krankl, Prohaska, Schachner, Koncilia to name a few. As a little gem I want to highlight Fillol's great save against Krankl, who after touching it hits the crossbar Esa selección de Austria no era un equipo menor, todo lo contario. Tenía grandes jugadores como Krankl, Prohaska, Schachner, Koncilia por nombrar algunos. Como perlita quiero destacar la gran atajada de Fillol a Krankl que después de tocarla pega en el travesaño

Superb performance from the 19-year-old Maradona. Diego is the most skillful player I've ever seen, and that's coming from someone who's been watching football since the 1970s. Messi just doesn't have the touch, pitch presence, and aesthetic flair of Maradona. However, he's highly consistent within a more systemized, disciplined style of play. If I had to choose which one to watch, both at their very peaks, it's Diego all the way for me. Just an extraterrestrial manipulator of the ball. ⚽🌟 #FootballLegends

3:27 El gol gateando de Maradona no lo hace nadie. Único.

That lob for the 2nd Argentina goal was just outstanding.

Imagine Maradona playing today with the modern tackle and challenge rules..

Le plus doué de tous les temps

The greatest Player of all time. His passes were insane. The 3rd goal by Buruchagga against Germany in 1986 final is a great example.😮😊

Only a minute in and already amazed at the brilliance of how casual that throughball is haha

What makes Diego's mastery and genius more apparent is that the Austrian team was an amazing and talented side being, strong, skilled and strategic, yet maradona outplayed them and annihilated their defense. I waa born 1977, so only watched diego really properly from 1986 onwards, but his early footage is phenomenal. The 70s footage from Boca is pure genius.

Diego Armando Maradona the best ever.🇦🇷

What is really insane is that a player as young as 19 years old was given the number 10.

Que jugadón se mandó Carlitos Ischia para el quinto gol de Argentina! Era un crack Carlitos. En esa época jugaba en Velez y lo iba a ver siempre. La rompía toda.

12:56 Random fact: The one that dribbled 3 opponents and passed at the end to Maradona is Carlos Ischia, 2nd place of Libertadores 1986 (River Plate won the tournament and then became champion of the "Intercontinental" vs Steaua București) Carlos belonged to one of the best America de Cali squads ever 🇨🇴🔥

the greatest soccer player in the world of all time

football used to be so much better. rather watch this than any tactic filled, pass heavy, no errors game today.

3:25 that crawl to goal is insane , todays players are too much superstars to do something like that..

Proper footballers, you won't find any of this today. This is the real art of the game. Like Mozart.

It was Bayern Napoli in 1989, the famous one in the warm-up. Maradona dominated that match and Kaiser Franz said: "He's not 100% and he practically dominates matches on his own, I can't imagine if Diego was at his ideal weight."

Que tremendo arquero Fillol, descomunal. Grandes jugadores tenía esa Argentina campeona del mundo, que lindo hubiese sido ver a Diego jugar el mundial 78, te extraño todos los días Pelusa.

3:46 That goal by Kurt Jara for Austria though...🤌

one of the best austrian ever sides as well… krankl, prohaska, schachner, jara, sara, konicilia, etc… just about a year prior, when argentina won their first world cup on home soil, austria finished top 8 at that very same tournament, actually eliminating reigning world champions at the time, germany, in their last game in argentina! also fun to see the old praterstadion without a roof yet (it was added on during the 80‘s i believe)

The greatest player for ever, far ahead of everyone in his time

Maradona created so many goals for others - He was a strikers dream. Ask any striker who would they rather have in their team Ronaldo, Messi or Maradona. The honest answer of majority would be Maradona - He was the ultimate provider and game controller!😊

Amazing player . First touch was always superb

That last goal by Maradona was something out of this world

Siempre amandote gordito , siempre conmigo

Hero Maradona. Rest in peace. 😔😔😔

In this match, every goal was a beauty !

Maradona had only 19 year of age and he already had great skills..Better than olders player s... He had special Gift born to be the Greatest..😅🤗😍❤❤🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈

I'm from Argentina. Diego was mentally stronger and prettier to watch. Messi work's ethic was far superior. Talent-wise they are even matched. Maradona overcame tougher challenges in sport terms, because of the conditions he played under. Both and Pele stand out. They all were a 10.

9:06 You can't think of many footballers today who can make such a first touch...

O Reí 👑 at that age was already World Cup Champion 🏆 in Club and National team... 👑🐐⚽🇧🇷

Super 👍 diegoooooooo for ever 🏆 cuanpion 🏆 del mundo,from this beste Amateur Maradona 2 jimmy assef en this KZfaq whit popopopoo Goals 😮 exeptionnel ✌️ and fantastisch 👍 like maradona 🙏⚽

Luque también era un crack , tremendo jugador, una bestia en lo físico y un dotado en lo técnico

at 19 he was already a master. He had poetry in his feet

Diego un fenómeno, Luque una bestia, la defensa Argentina era un FLAAAAAN, jajajaja, contabilicé no menos de 12 situaciones claras de gol para Austria, por suerte lo teníamos al Pato Fillol.

19 years old Maradona was insane but definitely Messi was even better at his 19 and there is tons of footage to prove it, the best it´s he almost maintain that level until end of his career.

Absolutely agree and so well explained. Maradonna played football in a man,s game. Not as physical in the Messi era

Maradona played in an era when defenders were ruthless & could get away with anything.

Maradona lo ganó todo, hasta el podio del jugador que más faltas recibió en mundiales es de él . En México 86 , 53 faltas, en Italia 90, 50 y en España 82 , 33. Primero, segundo y tercer puesto!

Best left foot the world has ever seen.

Tremendo equipo. Luque, genial

There would have been several red cards today.

Maradona was the best thing that happened to Football 👏👏👍👍🙏🙏🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

For me Maradona and Ronaldinho had a gift for the unexpected that no other human in the history of this sport ever had. I can't argue who the greatest player in history is and there are so many aspects of the game but for me Football is a spectacle and I've never see anyone put a show like those two could. When they took the ball you could never guess what is next no script. Ronaldo, CR7 Messi, Mbappe, Haland... you know what they can do and for the most part they do it anyway and thatts their greatness. When you saw messi running down the band with the ball you knew he was going to cut to the inside... the defenders knew it too and piled up but he'd still do it no matter how many players were there and that's crazy but not suprising. When Dinho or Maradona came running down the bands you just didn't know what's next. Their imagination was just so far out and incomprehensible. You could argue who was better who won more and whos the greatest for all eternity but you won't find more entertaining football than Maradona and Dinho. PS - I never saw Pele play... only the Reels and it looks like he fall under their category but its a shame there are so few videos to whatch of him.

Como daria por verlo visto jugar un fuera de Serie, Un Genio que no buscaba la Pelota sino que la Pelota lo buscaba a Él... Sobran las Palabras para Describir lo que es Maradona y la Pelota... Y lo que el Futbol aprendió de Él... Bendiciones desde Argentina 🇦🇷😊🫂🩵

Una locura lo que jugaba MAGATONA! 😂 Te quiero ... GUIEGOOO!!

3:17 it says in German the prodigy child of Football. Dice en Aleman "Maradona: Der Fussball Wunderkind. Traducido Maradona, el niño prodigio del futbol. Qué tiempos en que Maradona todavía era un adolescente!

Maradona era LIDER, tenia PERSONALIDA, ASCENDENCIA, .... Se enfrentó a Brutales marcadores, lo marcaban asesinos como dijo Ruggeri, en su epoca los reglamentos eran permisivos en sancionar fouls; a pesar de todo el MEJOR de la HISTORIA.

Legends never die!

That's awesome that the Team Chef got props on the lineup display like that.

Football was a whole different game back in the 70s. Not only was the ball oddly oval-shaped, but it seems the players indulged in a few too many halftime pies!

2:22 que postal del gol y el mensaje de fondo ''Donde Estan Los 20,000 Desaparecidos''

Que gran jugador Willi Kreuz !!! Was für ein toller Spieler Willi Kreuz (10 Österreich)

En Argentina jugaba el mejor arquero Fillol, el mejor defensor Passarella y el mejor atacante Diego, del fútbol argentino de todos los tiempos

With Maradona came up e restart. Nothing was comparable to that was before. A great luck having be lived that time to be testimonial as a similar old guy. I have read his book: "Yo soy el Diego" original written in Spanish, my favorite language.

I saw how Maradona crawled to the goal and then scored. that was great

Such a good game... Austria's goal was superb! Fun fact: 100 meters to this stadium Ernst Happel Stadium in Praterstern, there is a Napoliten Pizza shop called Maradona which was not existed at the very day of this match.

Eternamente El Diego, el mejor jugador de la historia del fútbol mundial.

When you click to watch the goat play and you see a whole squad of him 😂

Maradona: The telepathic footballer!

La ELEGANCIA del juego de Diego....es y será INIGUALABLE, UNICA.

Ahora ya sé de dónde sacó Takahashi el nombre de Barbas para el técnico de Argentina en Captain Tsubasa jaja

Maradona was a genius 👍 RIP dear.

D10S!!!🎉🎉🎉❤ Messi sheeeetttyy!!!

El Diego ❤

Imagine that legend starting now.. with today’s training, tactics and medicine.. he would be 10x Messi and CR7 ❤

ankles breaking left and right.. players today will go down from a mild sneeze, and then var will spend 15 minutes reviewing the sneeze

Not just Maradona.😶 That whole F-ING TEAM was stacked.💯

Если Пеле - король футбола, то Марадона - Бог футбола! Это настоящий ювелир футбольной техники и гений футбольной мысли.

Великий Армандо Марадона в молодости!

Valencia looks amazing what a dribbler

The goal that Maradona scored when he was on his knees was great, most of the nowadays footballers would have lie down on the ground and awaits a penalty

La mejor jugada: Carlos Ischia.