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The last and tragic words of Diego Maradona before dying were: “I don’t feel well.”
The Argentine legend went back to bed after having breakfast and telling nephew Johnny Esposito that he was not feeling well and that he was going to bed again.
A nurse who was caring for Maradona after she was discharged from the hospital after she underwent a brain scan called an ambulance and several responded.
But it was too late and the retired footballer was already dead when help arrived.
The last hours of the former Napoli and Barcelona star’s life unfolded in the Argentine media Wednesday night when an autopsy that was expected to show he had died of a massive heart attack began.
One described how he had woken up in the morning pale and complaining of being cold.
He went back to bed after a quick breakfast in which he is said to have uttered his last words: ‘I feel bad’, in English which means ‘I don’t feel good’.
The first responders made an unsuccessful attempt to revive him after arriving at the rented house in the gated community of San Andrés north of Buenos Aires to which he had moved after leaving the hospital following his operation on November 11.
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State prosecutors who launched a routine investigation into Maradona’s death said Wednesday that it occurred around noon.
The chief prosecutor, John Broyad, speaking outside San Andrés as the retired soccer player’s body was taken to a nearby morgue for an autopsy, said: “Diego Armando Maradona died around 12 pm local time.
“The forensic police began their work at 4 in the afternoon.” No signs of crime or violence have been detected.
“The autopsy is being carried out to determine beyond any doubt the cause of death, but we can say at this point that everything points to natural causes.”
Maradona’s wake will take place in the Argentine equivalent of the White House.
It was rumored that the Casa Rosada, the seat of the country’s national government that houses the office of the president and which translates as the Casa Rosada, would be used.
The news was confirmed this afternoon, with President Alberto Fernández announcing three days of national mourning.
Maradona, who turned 60 on October 30, also spelled out before his death the message he wanted to engrave on his tombstone.
The soccer legend made the surprising admission in a strange television interview 15 years ago in which he questioned himself.
The famous ex-footballer interviewed for the program that Diego presented at the time called La Noche del 10 said that “growing old with his grandchildren would mean a peaceful death” for him.
Asked by the interviewer Diego Maradona what he would say to the soccer legend in the cemetery, the interviewee said: “Thank you for having played soccer because it is the sport that gave me the most happiness and freedom and it is like having touched heaven with hand. Thanks to the ball.
“Yeah, I’d say on the tombstone, ‘Thanks to the ball.’
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