Diego Maradona: the football legend dies at the age of 60

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D.he world of football mourns Diego Armando Maradona. The former Argentine world footballer died at the age of 60. According to the media, the national hero suffered a cardiac arrest. More recently, the 1986 world champion had to undergo an operation due to a blood clot in the brain.

After leaving the Buenos Aires hospital two weeks ago, those around him were optimistic. Maradona is about to recover. “He survived the most difficult moment of his life,” said his lawyer Matías Morla.

The 1986 world champion was taken to hospital on November 2, just days after his 60th birthday. Initially it was only about emotional stress, anemia and dehydration. During the tests, a subdural hematoma was discovered in the soccer hero. This is a hemorrhage between the hard meninges and the brain. Maradona was operated on on November 3, according to her medical team.

As Morla said, her client is finally willing to rehabilitate due to personal problems. “Maradona will hang around for a while,” he prophesied.

Maradona with the hand of God and his church

The myth of Maradona was founded in his early youth. In Argentina, stories were told of a child prodigy who could handle the ball like no one before. At the age of twelve he delighted the public as a ball boy for the Argentinos Juniors first division club. Many came to the stadium only to see the little curly hair in the intermission break with its locker pieces.

At 15 he made his debut in the Argentine league, at 16 he became a player for the national team. A year later he was the top scorer, at 19 he was voted South American Footballer of the Year for the first time. The beginning of a great career that culminated with the 1986 World Cup in Mexico.

He has racked up many titles: world champion and Uefa Cup winner with SSC Napoli on the pitch, doping thug, failed TV presenter and cocaine addict aside – actually too much for a single life. Argentina is crying.

There are countless anecdotes about Maradona: how he fooled his opponents in line, how he even barely dribbled death, how he shot reporters with an air rifle or even a church got its name from him. Faithfuls from the Iglesia Maradoniana, the Church of Maradona, follow their D10S, who also held God’s hand from his irregular goal against England at the 1986 World Cup.

As a footballer, Maradona was indescribably good as perhaps no one before or after. As a person, many years later he was so fat that he could barely speak. Diego Armando Maradona: The name stands for a life between extremes, between heaven and hell, between genius and madness.