Editing Andoni Goikoetxea (section)

====Maradona foul====
[[File:Goikoetxea lesiona maradona.jpg|thumb|left|The moment when Goikoetxea injures Maradona]]
On 24 September 1983, Goikoetxea achieved notoriety for a foul on [[Diego Maradona]] described as "one of the most brutal fouls ever delivered in the history of Spanish football".<ref name=Burns>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=muUjb4rhzL8C&pg=PA115|title=Maradona: The Hand of God|publisher=A&C Black|first=Jimmy|last=Burns|pages=115|date=5 December 2011|isbn=978-1-4088-2772-7}}</ref> In a league match at the [[Camp Nou]], he [[Tackle (football move)|tackled]] the Argentine from behind and broke his ankle.<ref name=Burns/> Maradona compared the sound he heard to that of wood breaking<ref name=SZ>{{cite news|url=http://www.sueddeutsche.de/sport/fussball-historie-wie-holz-das-bricht-1.686363|title=Wie Holz, das bricht|trans-title=Like wood, it breaks|newspaper=[[Süddeutsche Zeitung]]|first=Javier|last=Cáceres|language=de|date=17 May 2010|access-date=6 December 2015}}</ref> and, in the aftermath, English journalist Edward Owen coined the phrase "Butcher of Bilbao" to describe Goikoetxea,<ref name=Burns/><ref name=SZ/> a nickname which stayed with him for the rest of his career. Maradona's compatriot [[César Luis Menotti]], the coach of [[FC Barcelona]], accused the Spaniard of "belonging to a 'race of anti-footballers'" and called for a lifelong ban;<ref name=Burns/> he was served a ten-match ban by the [[Royal Spanish Football Federation]].<ref name=Burns/> It was later reported he kept "the boot he had used to destroy...(Maradona's) ankle ligaments" at home in a glass case.<ref name=Hard>{{cite news|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/article2215721.ece|title=Football's 50 greatest hard men|newspaper=[[The Times]]|date=2007|access-date=23 December 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080821145231/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/article2215721.ece|archive-date=21 August 2008}}</ref>

Two seasons earlier, Goikoetxea had severely injured Barcelona midfielder [[Bernd Schuster]], leaving him with a serious right knee injury from which the German never fully recovered.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://elpais.com/diario/2008/09/22/deportes/1222034422_850215.html|title=Estas botas son la cara y la cruz del fútbol|trans-title=These boots are the heads and tails of football|newspaper=El País|first=Unai|last=Larrea|language=es|date=22 September 2008|access-date=11 May 2018}}</ref> When the two teams met in the [[1984 Copa del Rey final]] in May, the match ended 1–0 for Athletic. Featuring in a mass brawl on the pitch, he kicked Maradona's chest;<ref name=Burns/><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2008/dec/05/joy-of-six-scott-murray|title=The Joy of Six: hot football funks|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|first=Scott|last=Murray|date=5 December 2008|access-date=25 April 2015}}</ref> he was initially banned for 18 games for his actions, but the suspension was later reduced to seven.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://elpais.com/diario/1999/11/27/deportes/943657208_850215.html|title=El tercer mayor castigo|trans-title=The third biggest punishment|newspaper=El País|language=es|date=27 November 1999|access-date=2 November 2015}}</ref>