Velório de Maradona: crowd occupies the Casa Rosada region to bid farewell to the Argentine idol | World

The greatest player in Argentine history and world soccer legend, Maradona died Wednesday, at age 60. The Argentine government has declared three-day official duel

Maradona’s body arrived at the scene around 1:30 am. His wife, Claudia, and their children are also in the complex. A ceremony will be held in the presence of family members.

Local media reported that players from the Argentine team that won the 86th World Cup in Mexico are also in the presidential palace.

Maradona will be watched in the same chapel where the funeral of former Argentine president Néstor Kirchner, who died 10 years ago, was held.

Journalists from all over the world requested accreditation to participate in the event.

The Argentine star suffered a cardiorespiratory arrest at his home in the city of Tigre, in the metropolitan region of the capital. Known as “The Golden boy”, the player underwent delicate brain surgery earlier this month and was released eight days later, after draining a small brain hemorrhage.

Dr. Leopoldo Luque said at the time that the surgery was considered simple, but there was concern about the former player’s state of health.

Maradona leaves Three daughters (Dalma, Gianinna, Jana) e two children (Diego and Diego Fernando) – and a successful career in football: won the 1986 World Cup with the Argentine national team and was runner-up in 1990. He played in big clubs, Boca Juniors, Barcelona me Naples, and served as a coach, including leading the national team in 2010 Cup.

World champion in 1986 World Cup, when he was immortalized by the two goals he scored against England in the quarterfinals, Maradona was venerated and treated as God in Argentina.

“They often tell me, ‘You are God.’ And I answer: ‘You are wrong’. God is God and I am simply a footballer ”, said the Argentine star in 1991.

His hand goal against England was known worldwide as the “hand of God”. The other goal, in which Maradona dribbled half the team (including the goalkeeper), It was chosen by FIFA in 2002 as the most beautiful in the history of the World Cup.

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Maradona also played the 1982, 1990 me 1994. In 1990, he and Caniggia made the move that eliminated the Brazilian team in the round of 16. In 1994, it was caught up in doping test and court of the Argentine national team.

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Health and drug problems

Maradona lived his entire life with drug addiction, which earned him two suspensions as a player.

“I was, am and will be a drug addict,” Maradona said in 1996 in an interview with “Gente” magazine. In 2004, he told the Argentine television channel “Canal 9”: “I am losing by knockout.”

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In 2000, the Argentine suffered a heart attack due to an overdose in a Uruguayan spa in Punta del Este and underwent a long treatment.

At 100 kilos, Maradona had another heart and respiratory crisis in 2004 in Buenos Aires, which left him on the brink of death.

• Maradona had a history of health problems and crises related to cocaine and alcohol use

Between 2001 and 2005, Maradona traveled to Cuba to address his chemical dependency. It was in Havana that he met Fidel Castro, whom he called “second father.”

Recovered, underwent bariatric surgery, lost 50 pounds, and a year later returned as a successful television host.

In 2007, excesses in alcohol consumption led him to a new hospitalization, now for hepatitis. He was admitted to a psychiatric hospital. He left again.

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Diego Armando Maradona born in October 30, 1960 in Lanús, in the province of Buenos Aires. “El Pibe” grew up in Villa Fiorito, a very poor neighborhood on the outskirts of the Argentine capital.

At just 15 years old, Maradona began his professional career with Argentinos Juniors, where he played between 1976 and 1981. At the club he scored 116 goals in 166 games and moved. With success, the player moved in 1982 to the Boca Juniors, where he stayed for only one season.

He soon went to the Barcelona, where he worked between 1982 and 1984, on the most expensive transfer in soccer to date: US $ 8 million (US $ 21.5 million in inflation-adjusted values).

From there he went to NaplesIn Italy, he won a UEFA Cup, two Italian Championships, a Cup and an Italian Super Cup between 1984 and 1991 and became an idol.

On March 17, 1991, his addiction to cocaine cost him his first 15-month suspension. He returned to the grass for Seville, from Spain, where he played between 1992 and 1993, and returned to Argentina for a brief stint at the Newell’s Old Boys in 1993.

After the 1994 World Cup and from his second suspension he returned to wear the Boca shirt, where left the lawn on October 25, 1997, five days before turning 37.

In a memorable farewell in 2001, at the crowded La Bombonera stadium, Maradona spoke of his addictions: “I was wrong and I paid, but what I did on the field did not go wrong.”

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One of the best players in the history of world football, together with Pelé, The Argentine star played 676 games and scored 345 goals in his 21-year career with the Argentine national team and clubs..

Maradona too acted as a technician – currently directed the Gymnastics and Fencing La Plata, an Argentine club in the neighboring city of Buenos Aires.

He also trained Mandiyu (1994), Careers (nineteen ninety five), Al Wasl (2011-2012), Al Fujairah (2017-2018) e The Dorados of Sinaloa (2018), in addition to Argentine national team at the 2010 World Cup.

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