Diego Maradona: funeral workers fired after photo with corpse

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D.three employees of the funeral home posed for photos next to the body of football idol Diego Maradona and were then fired. Claudio Fernández assured radio station Diez on Friday that he was surprised by the action.

In one of the photos you can see with his son Ismael at the open coffin of Maradona, the son with the thumb up. Another image shows the third employee in a similar pose.

For many Argentines, the images of the dead football icon that spread across the internet amount to sacrilege. There were angry comments. Fernández said he even received death threats. “They know me. I come from the neighborhood,” said his father from the El Paternal neighborhood, where Maradona began his professional career in 1976 at Club Argentinos Juniors. “They say they will kill us.”

Maradona had died of a heart attack on Wednesday at the age of 60. The next day, before the funeral, there were chaotic scenes because thousands of fans had tried in vain to say goodbye to the coffin that had been set up in the presidential palace.

Fernández said he knew nothing of the other two’s plans shortly before the funeral and certainly nothing that the images were to be distributed on the Internet. “It was something immediate. I just raised my head and my son reacted like an 18 year old. “

The Argentinos Juniors football team – with which Maradona began his professional career and whose stadium is named after him – announced that the termination of the card of one of the men had been initiated. “In my friend’s memory, I will not rest until he has paid for such a derailment,” wrote Maradona’s lawyer, Matías Morla

Maradona’s daughter writes to her father – new video of the legend

The day after Diego Maradona’s funeral, several social media posts and images of the football legend moved people in his native Argentina. Maradona’s eldest daughter, Dalma, addressed him in an emotional text he posted on Instagram on Friday.

Among other things he says: “I am destroyed, but I will make it! Wait for me there “. The 33-year-old also wrote: “And if your niece wants to video call you as before, I’ll die inside, but don’t worry: I’ll tell her exactly who you were, who you are and who you will always be!”

The Argentine media also released one of the likely last recordings of Maradona before his death. The video shows the 1986 world champion walking past a house, leaning on other men. A small child calls him from inside the house: “Hello Diego”, and the national hero nods back.

“Maradona greeted me,” says the boy. According to reports, the video was from a private Instagram account of a neighbor of Maradona in the gated neighborhood near Buenos Aires where he spent the last two weeks of his life.

Beckenbauer to Maradona: genius who did not have life under control

Franz Beckenbauer speaks of Maradona with respect but still critical. “He was always kind, always friendly when we met. I liked. He was a genius who had obviously lost control of his life in recent years. It couldn’t be overlooked, “the former world champion and world champion coach said in an interview with” Bild “.

“You’ve been throwing it all your life. We can’t even imagine it in Germany. What they did to him was more than enthusiasm, it was hysteria. In Argentina as in Naples ”, Beckenbauer (75) mentions some of the problems of the Argentine football idol.

In his personal meetings as head of the German team with Maradona, Beckenbauer said: “Two World Cup finals against Argentina, twice Diego was my biggest problem. In 1986 in Mexico it was at its peak and actually unstoppable. I trusted only Lothar Matthäus, who had to take him into cover. There wasn’t much to see about Diego as usual. But we missed Lothar in the offensive. “

Beckenbauer believes that you shouldn’t compare players from different times. “Pelé was three times world champion. But right behind him comes Maradona for me. He was more than a footballer. He was an artist! ”He said anyway.