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The Champions League finalist defender Hugo Ibarra admitted that he scored a goal with his hand in the second leg of the semi-finals against Chelsea.
In that match, Chelsea led 2-0, which would have been enough for the English team to reach the championship final, but just before the end of the first half, the Argentinean softened the result.
The score was 2-0 and the ball, struck by Fernando Morientes' head, hit the crossbar and bounced off Ibarra's arm into the goal. Now, the 30-year-old Ibarra confessed that he scored that goal with his left hand.
The referee did not pay attention to the comments of Chelsea's goalkeeper Carlo Cudicini and other players from the English club that the goal was scored with the hand.
"I definitely didn't score on purpose," Ibarra said. "But if the ball hadn't hit my left hand, it wouldn't have gone into the goal."
The term "Hand of God" was once used by Diego Maradona. He uttered this phrase after the quarter-finals of the World Cup in Mexico. In that match, the famous Argentine scored the decisive goal into the goal of the English national team, and afterwards, when asked about scoring with his hand, he calmly replied: "It was the Hand of God."
