Sofía is Mexican. Oliver is English. And in June 1986, at the Estadio Azteca, they ended up sitting next to each other because of a seating mistake, right during the match in which Maradona scored the Hand of God and the Goal of the Century.
He returned to England without internet or a cell phone, to keep in touch: only letters and very long phone calls. Three years later he went back to Mexico and proposed to her at the pyramids of Teotihuacán. They got married in 1990 and today they live in London.
On July 5, 2026, forty years after that seating mix-up, Sofía and Oliver returned to the Estadio Azteca to watch Mexico face England in the World Cup.
They were wearing the same jerseys from 1986. “Being here again, together, is indescribable”, they told ITV News. To think that it all began thanks to blessed football.