I think that is why kattuviriyan added the screenshot: I get the same as you, it's probably a country-based feature (or what DuckDuckGo calls bubbling).
I get "Diego Maradona" as the 2nd result (the HN thread is the 1st one :) . I'm in Uruguay (South America) where the FIFA news are huge, and logged into my Google account, so that must be it. Interesting to see the "bubble effect".
I opened on an incognito window and it gives me answers similar to the ones posted above.
Edit2: for the curious, the link it gives me is
"Diego Maradona would like to be the next president of FIFA"
Interestingly, this HN thread is already the top search result, despite this thread only being an hour old.