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Farewell Maradona … the Argentine football legend deported due to a heart attack and three days of mourning for him (photos)

Argentine football legend “Maradona” or “Diego Armando Maradona” passed away at the age of 60 after suffering a cardiorespiratory arrest, at his home, as doctors failed to resuscitate him, according to Argentine press reports. The Argentine newspaper “Clarín” wrote that the Argentine star, Diego Armando Maradona, suffered in the last hours of a heart attack at his home, and is in a very serious condition, and after the death of Maradona, Argentine President Alberto Fernandez declared public mourning for a period of three days.


Maradona in his youth

Maradona’s disease

In early November, Maradona underwent surgery on the head, in Olivos Hospital, after he was transferred with anemia and dehydration, but upon conducting tests, he was diagnosed with a blood clot in the head, so he underwent surgery the next day.

“Maradona has overcome the most difficult moment in his life. Fortunately, he now feels in good health and is determined to recover in the best possible way,” assures Matthias Morla, the lawyer for the Argentine star Maradona.

He added, “The important thing is that he only thinks about recovery, at this moment Maradona needs only to calm down.” However, the month did not end until Maradona’s death was announced.

The legend Maradona
The legend Maradona

Maradona movie

With Maradona’s celebration of his 60th birthday, the film “Maradona, the Hand of God”, described by critics as a footballing genius who lived in the shadow of a life of recklessness, was shown off the stadium. The film reveals many details in Diego Maradona’s life outside the stadium, events that the fans did not see and many do not know about Diego Times when it collapses and falls into the trap of dark easily.

Maradona was at that time in 2004, he had undergone more than one attempt at treatment, whether healthily or psychologically, but the end was always the same, which is the collapse, for Maradona to lie in his hospital bed waiting for death at any moment, as his health deteriorated greatly, due to his severe alcoholism and his habit of eating He no longer controls it and is taking it all the time.

Maradona
Maradona

Despite this situation, which was going towards the impossible, Maradona was able to return to life again, to turn Maradona’s life at that time a great transformation from a legend that wasted her career and recklessly turned into a soccer hero who regained his life and fought for it and returned from the point of death to reach the top.

The beginnings of Maradona

Maradona began his career in 1976 and actresses like jealousy of children in Argentines at that era, a young boy without a shirt wandering the streets of Buenos Aires, he loved football and the Argentine fans adored him and in 1984 when he joined Napoli, after two years of playing for Barcelona he was still a new young man in Europe and not European life gets used to with a lot of controversies in Spain, and in Italy the temptations were more and greater and exceeded what he found in Argentina.

Goodbye Maradona
Goodbye Maradona

His club, Napoli, was associated with the Italian mafia at that time, and reports said that it was at that time responsible for supplying him with drugs.

In 1991 he was suspended from playing in the Italian league for 15 months after tests showed positive drug abuse.

Maradona was welcomed into the Newell’s Old Boys club in Rosario, but in 1994 he missed training and was expelled from the club, and that was the year he shot a journalist outside his home.

Maradona has gone through everything in his life, as he succeeded in football and then disappeared, and on June 30, 1994, Julio Grendona, President of the Argentine Federation, received the news of tests for doping and drugs, and the sample was positive for Maradona, and everything began to disappear from then on, so that the greatest football player faced a scandal in the largest sports tournament Just a week ago, he was considered the most unmatched World Cup star.

The looks of admiration for the football genius turned into accusations of recklessness and submission to the influence of drugs and abuse, and during 1997 he failed again to skip an examination of stimulants and drugs to keep him away from fame and the spotlight and suffer a major psychological crisis and spoil his career.

By the year 2000, he was lying in hospital suffering from an acute heart attack while on vacation he was spending in the resort of Uruguay. At that time, Carlos Menem, President of Argentina and his friend at the time, said: “It is a heart attack he suffers from due to pressure.” But Uruguayan police said he had used too much cocaine.

Legend of the ball Maradona

Maradona admitted in his autobiography that he was addicted to drugs, but he explained that he was the victim of a conspiracy by football officials and politicians, and despite his recovery, in 2004 he entered into a new crisis after using an overdose of cocaine, especially since the crisis had actually hit him while he was watching a match for his favorite and former club, Boca Juniors at the “La Bombonera” stadium, and he had to withdraw between the halves and the doctors feared that his heart would not be able to continue.

Argentine Maradona
Argentine Maradona

The crowd lined up outside the rehabilitation center, in front of the “Buenos Aires” hospital, with everyone wearing the blue and yellow Bokagoniors shirt, and in the back number 10, and many banners showing their love and fear reading: “Diego Argentina loves you.” “Hold on, Diego.”

Maradona went after that to Cuba to treat himself from drugs and drug addiction, and that was one of the strangest periods of his life, as he dyed his black hair orange and remained in the company of Fidel Castro, President of the State and his friend.

Afterwards, press reports said that Maradona donated all his biographical revenues to the people of Cuba and Castro, after admiring their “dignity and their origin” with regard to the health treatment regimen. After that, Maradona underwent surgery to lose weight, in a journey that seemed very strange to one of the best people they touched. Football at all.

Autobiography of Maradona

Triumphs and defeats is the summary of Maradona’s life as his first autobiography “I am Diego”, which was published in September 2000 in Argentina, is among the best-selling books there, as he sold 125 thousand copies in just a week, and one of the most famous phrases in that biography was: “I am Maradona, I can do whatever I like. “
Maradona

Maradona was a role model for a player who came from poverty to fame and wealth and then was stigmatized for drug use, and his private guards were not trained and professional, but were young men from Buenos Aires, and it was famous for the poor class there that they used alcohol and cocaine.

In 2005, Maradona regained his throne as the king of football everywhere in the hearts of fans of the game, when he made a TV program and talked about his goal against England in the 1986 World Cup, and admitted for the first time in history that he hit the ball with his hand and that he never regretted it.

After all that came his appointment in 2008 as coach of the Argentine national team, and the concerns were in a number of newspapers, the most prominent and famous of which was the first saying: “Diego risks damaging his reputation and legend as Maradona.”

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