Tag: Diego Maradona

• 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.

• Saturday, November 28th 2020 - 08:05 UTC

  Argentine billionaire Eurnekian will erect a statue of Diego Maradona at Ezeiza airport

  

  Argentine billionaire Eduardo Eurnekian is preparing to fulfil an old promise to the late football icon Diego Maradona by erecting a statue of the player at the country’s main airport. Eurnekian, founder of Corporacion America Airports and one of the country’s top businessmen, announced the plan in a note of condolences published in newspaper La Nacion on Friday.

• Saturday, November 28th 2020 - 06:47 UTC

  Maradona's inheritance anticipates a formidable legal battle

  

  In the coming days, the time will come for Diego Armando Maradona's lawyer, Matias Morla, to begin the process of distributing the inheritance he leaves behind. While Maradona once said, half in jest, that he would donate all his earthly possessions, the details of this difficult situation and who will inherit what eventually become known is a great mystery

• Friday, November 27th 2020 - 09:46 UTC

  Maradona in life, as in death, involved in chaos and controversy: fans overwhelm and invade the presidential palace

  

  Diego Maradona in life, as in death, was involved in chaos and controversy, and his funeral was not the exception. In effect Argentine police and fans who were lined up to see the casket of the football icon clashed on Thursday as authorities moved to shut down access to the Casa Rosada presidential palace ahead of a planned mid-afternoon shutoff for the public wake.

• Friday, November 27th 2020 - 08:49 UTC

  Maradona buried next to his parents, amid a global outpouring of grief in the streets of Buenos Aires and Naples

  

  Argentina’s Diego Maradona, one of the world’s greatest ever soccer players, was buried on Thursday amid a global outpouring of grief from the streets of Buenos Aires to Naples in Italy.