For a 16 year old growing up in a Mumbai suburb back in the mid-1980s, Diego Maradona was that supreme being on a football field.
So much of a hero that the teenager sketched Maradona's magic with a football.
Dominic Xavier revisits a sketch he first created in 1987 to pay homage to arguably the greatest footballer the world has seen.
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