Tag: Diego Maradona

• 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.

• Thursday, March 11th 2021 - 09:20 UTC

  Fans march in Buenos Aires demanding “Justice for Diego. Trial and punishment of the guilty”

  

  Argentine football idol Diego Maradona was always surrounded by controversy both in life and in death. Just remember the chaos when his funeral held at Government House attracted hundreds of thousands, and this Wednesday, Argentines again took to the streets to demand what they say is justice for Diego, a medical inquest into how he died and whether there had been any negligence in his care.

• Tuesday, December 8th 2020 - 08:44 UTC

  Proposal to have Maradona and his “Hand of God” goal on the 1,000 Peso bill

  

  An Argentine senator wants to put Diego Maradona on the country’s banknotes and presented a project to Congress on Monday to get the late soccer star and possibly even his ‘Hand of God’ image on a 1,000-peso note.

• Wednesday, December 2nd 2020 - 08:16 UTC

  Maradona's death investigation: police raids the office and home of the psychiatrist

  

  The investigation into Diego Maradona’s death continued on Tuesday with police raids on the office and home of the psychiatrist who cared for the football star and is being investigated for possible medical negligence.

• Tuesday, December 1st 2020 - 08:40 UTC

  Conflicting reports about Maradona's convalescence conditions in his last week

  

  Diego Maradona fell and hit his head a week before he died - and was left alone “without help”, his nurse has reportedly claimed. The Argentine football legend, 60, passed away from “chronic heart failure” at his home in Buenos Aires last week.

• Monday, November 30th 2020 - 08:30 UTC

  Maradona's personal doctor under investigation for alleged manslaughter

  

  Diego Maradona's doctor is under investigation for manslaughter four days after the football idol died of a heart attack at his home, the Argentinean news agency Telam reported on Sunday.

• Saturday, November 28th 2020 - 09:20 UTC

  Maradona: why the English can’t let go of the Hand of God and Latin Americans love it

  

  By Matthew Brown, Professor of Latina American History, University of Bristol – The death of the greatest player in the history of the game of Association Football, Diego Armando Maradona, on November 25 produced an outpouring of grief and nostalgia around the world. He was such an important figure in his native Argentina that the president declared three days of mourning.