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The funeral of Diego Armando Maradona. Diego’s body was transferred to the Casa Rosada in Buenos Aires, the Argentine presidential palace, where the funeral home was installed. To pay tribute to the Golden Boy There are already hundreds of people queuing for the last farewell and more than a million people are expected.
The wake will last only until 4 pm local time (8 pm Italian time), then Maradona will be buried. At the express request of the family, the funeral will be held today instead of Saturday. Diego Maradona’s family and friends had the opportunity to see Maradona at dawn for the last time in a private area that was set up in the Casa Rosada, in a private ceremony attended by Claudia Villafañe, Gianinna and Dalma Maradona. Besides Verónica Ojeda, Dieguito Fernando and Jana Maradona are other members of the family circle who are already in the Casa Rosada.
Diego Jr. is in Italy, hospitalized for coronavirus. Many players, including Carlos Tevez, Martín Palermo, and the 1986 world champions in Mexico. Also present are Chiqui Tapia, president of the AFA, and Guillermo Coppola, former representative of Maradona. One of the first to arrive at Casa Rosada was Sergio Goycochea. Argentina’s goalkeeper at the 1990 World Cup in Italy, as well as co-host of the famous program “La Noche del Diez”.
Maradona’s coffin will be closed for the last tribute to the Argentine people. The ex-wife of the former Argentinos, Boca and Napoli player was the first communication channel between Casa Rosada and the Maradona family. There were no special requests, just the fact that an Argentine flag was placed near or on top of the coffin.
Throughout the night, in the front row waiting for the doors to open, ‘La Doce’, the official fans of the Boca Juniors team. Tensions were not lacking: dozens of these fans forced their entrance to be the first to pay tribute to Maradona (PHOTO).
After a long wait outside the building in the Plaza de Mayo, visitors must go through security to enter the building and then parade a few meters from the coffin. People can stop for a few seconds, throwing flowers, flags and T-shirts, material that is immediately picked up by security agents. The coffin, made of light wood, is closed, covered with an Argentine flag, a shirt of the national team with the number 10 and another of Boca Juniors. The line at 7 in the morning is hundreds of meters, extending to Avenida 9 de Julio.
In the hours before the funeral home opened to the public, the relatives (ex-wife Claudia Villafane and daughters Dalma and Giannina) and numerous footballers and historical friends of the ‘golden boy’ entered the room where the remains of Diego Maradona are found. ‘(Carlos Tevez, Martín Palermo, the members of the victorious Argentine team in Mexico 1986, and Guillermo Coppola. During the night he was in the room where ten years ago the greatest tribute was paid to former president Néstor Kirchner, also the last girlfriend of Maradona, Vernica Ojeda, with their son Dieguito Fernando.
R S0B QBXB ++ MARADONA: TODAY WILL BE BURIAL WITH PARENTS WITH A BEAUTIFUL VIEW ++ (ANSA) – BUENOS AIRES, NOV 26 – Diego Armando Maradona’s body will be buried today in the ‘Jardin de Bella Vistà cemetery, where his mother and father are buried (Do¤a Tota, who died in 2011 and Don Diego, who died in 2015). The spokesman Sebastián Bianchi informs AFP. Created in the 1980s, it is a private cemetery surrounded by vegetation, 35 kilometers from Buenos Aires (ANSA). SAL NOV 26-20 13:38 NNNN CRO S0B QBXB ++ MARADONA: TODAY WILL BE BURIED WITH PARENTS IN HERMOSO ++ (ANSA) – BUENOS AIRES, NOV 26 – Diego Armando Maradona’s body will be buried today in the ‘Jardin cemetery from Bella Vistà, where her mother and father were buried in the past (Do¤a Tota, who died in 2011 and Don Diego, who died in 2015). The spokesman Sebastián Bianchi informs AFP. Created in the 1980s, it is a private cemetery surrounded by vegetation, 35 kilometers from Buenos Aires (ANSA). Last updated: 17:06
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