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The body of Argentine soccer legend Diego Maradona has been transported to the presidential palace in Buenos Aires, where it will be wrapped so fans can catch a farewell look.
The government said it expects up to a million people to face the coffin of Maradona, considered a national hero and one of the greatest footballers of all time.
Officials quickly erected barriers and took other steps to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
Crowds of crowds remained in the streets late at night to mourn Maradona’s death and celebrate his life.
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Maradona’s body will be kept in the presidential palace
Argentina’s stadiums turned on the spotlights at ten o’clock, the time chosen to coincide with the number on his jersey, in honor of his memory.
The Vatican said Wednesday that Pope Francis remembers soccer legend and Argentine Diego Maradona with nostalgia, and that he had prayed for him. The official media of the Holy See described him as a “football poet.”
Maradona met the Pope several times at the Vatican after Francis was elected in 2013 as the first Latin American Pope.
Maradona traveled to Rome several times to participate in various games called “Games for Peace”, the proceeds of which were donated to a papal charity for education in developing countries and victims of the 2016 earthquake in central Italy.
Diego Maradona died of a heart attack on Wednesday at the age of 60.
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