Diego Maradona’s carer crushed sleeping pills into his beer so he wasn’t a nuisance at night and he was given alcohol on-demand at 9am in the months before he died, investigators in Argentina are told Ongoing prosecution probe into Diego Maradona’s death has heard about his battles with alcohol during the final months of his … Read more
Diego has been laid to rest after thousands of fans lined the streets of Buenos Aires to pay their respects as his coffin was driven to the cemetery on Thursday. The 1986 World Cup winner was taken by hearse to the Bella Vista cemetery on the outskirts of the capital – where his parents are buried … Read more
Diego Maradona’s body arrived at the presidential palace in Argentina today as a grieving country prepares to pay its last respects to the flawed football genius who died on Wednesday at the age of 60. As a crowd of weeping fans gathered outside, Maradona’s coffin was lifted out of an ambulance and brought into the … Read more
That rage, that insatiable, brilliant, magnificent, rage, is at last calmed. Diego Maradona is gone. Nine ambulances, called to his home in San Andres, north of Buenos Aires, could not save him. Three days of national mourning were immediately declared. ‘He leaves us, but does not leave,’ wrote Lionel Messi, ‘because Diego is eternal.’ And … Read more
Diego Maradona has died from a heart attack less than a month after turning 60. The Argentinian football legend died at home, his lawyer said, just three weeks after having surgery on a blood clot in his brain. Maradona won the World Cup with Argentina in 1986, having knocked England out of the tournament in … Read more