Tag: Diego Maradona

• 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.

• Friday, November 27th 2020 - 08:05 UTC

  Maradona's contribution to monetary policy, according to Lord Mervyn King

  

  Even the Financial Times referred to the death of Diego Armando Maradona, one of the most gifted footballers to ever play the game. In effect, the FT recalls that while his dribbling prowess was world-renowned, fewer people know that his skills were used to construct one of the most memorable monetary policy analogies of all time.

• Thursday, November 26th 2020 - 09:00 UTC

  “No matter what happens, and no matter who is in charge, the number 10 shirt will always be mine”

  

  Diego Armando Maradona was not only a brilliant player but was also notorious for his opinions and here are a few of his quotes:

• Thursday, November 26th 2020 - 08:59 UTC

  Infantino: “Diego deserves our eternal gratitude for having amazed us with his incredible talent”

  

  Football is in mourning after one of the sport’s most prodigious talents, Diego Maradona, passed away at the age of 60 in his native Buenos Aires.