Tag: Diego Maradona

• Friday, April 15th 2022 - 10:16 UTC

  Healthcare team treating Maradona faces manslaughter charges

  

  The physicians and healthcare professionals who treated Diego Armando Maradona during his final days are to be tried for manslaughter in the death of the late Argentine football legend, it was announced.

• Tuesday, December 28th 2021 - 20:10 UTC

  Diego Maradona's younger brother Hugo dies aged 52

  

  Hugo Maradona, younger brother of Argentine football legend Diego Armando Maradona, has been found dead Tuesday at his XXX home. He was 52. According to La Gazzetta Dello Sport, the cause of death was a heart attack.

• Thursday, December 16th 2021 - 09:06 UTC

  Statue of Diego Maradona unveiled at Ezeiza airport

  

  A real-life statue of former Argentine football legend Diego Maradona was unveiled Wednesday at Buenos Aires' Ezeiza International Airport.

• Friday, November 26th 2021 - 09:05 UTC

  Conmebol names a star after Maradona on the first anniversary of his death

  

  South America's Football Confederation (Conmebol) Thursday announced a star had been named after Argentine soccer legend Diego Armando Maradona on the first anniversary of the former player's death.

• Monday, November 22nd 2021 - 22:37 UTC

  Maradona buried without his heart, TV anchorman says

  

  Argentine neurologist and TV host Nelson Castro has said former football legend Diego Armando Maradona has been buried but his heart was not in his coffin.

• Monday, November 8th 2021 - 19:54 UTC

  Health care professionals in charge of Maradona booked for murder

  

  All seven health care professionals who were treating Argentine football legend Diego Armando Maradona when he underwent surgery and eventually died have been charged with malpractice and other crimes by a San Isidro (Greater Buenos Aires) court Monday.

• Wednesday, October 27th 2021 - 08:40 UTC

  Argentina declares Maradona's childhood house as a 'National Historic Site'

  

  Argentina authorities have declared the house in the low-income Buenos Aires neighborhood of Villa Fiorito where football legend Diego Armando Maradona spent his childhood a National Historic Site, it was announced learned Tuesday.

• Sunday, October 17th 2021 - 08:12 UTC

  Crypotocurrency in honor of Maradona announced

  

  Cryptocurrency developers have announced Friday the “Maradólar” is to be launched Oct. 30, when the late footballer Diego Armando Maradona was to have turned 61.

• Saturday, May 1st 2021 - 08:16 UTC

  Maradona's death could have been prevented, court doctors say

  

  Medical experts appointed by the Office of the Prosecutor investigating the death of Diego Armando Maradona Friday concluded the Argentine football star lacked proper health care assistance and that he might have survived under different conditions.

• Saturday, April 3rd 2021 - 03:24 UTC

  Luxurious book about Maradona said to be untrue

  

  A new book released in England about Diego Maradona is said to be untrue and his heirs or rights holders of the footballer's bequest have hinted they might sue the publishers.