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Diego Maradona taken to hospital 'to undergo tests after feeling poorly for some time' - just days after Argentina legend celebrated his 60th birthday

* The Argentinian footballing legend celebrated his 60th birthday on Friday
* Gimnasia coach attended their match against Patronato but left before kick-off
* Local media reported that Maradona was taken to a clinic near Buenos Aires
* The 60-year-old has suffered frequent periods in hospital over the years

Football legend Diego Maradona has been admitted into hospital in Argentina, local media reported on Monday.

The 60-year-old was reportedly taken to the Ipensa clinic in La Plata, about an hour from Buenos Aires.

Maradona coaches the local club Gimnasia y Esgrima.

The reports said Maradona, who won the World Cup with Argentina in 1986 and is widely considered to be one of the greatest players of all time, was admitted to hospital to undergo tests as he was feeling poorly for some time and will be held under observation for 'several days'.


Argentina legend Diego Maradona has been taken to a hospital near Buenos Aires. Maradona attended Gimnasia's game against Patronato on Friday but left before kick-off

Maradona, who celebrated his 60th birthday on Friday, was in attendance of Gimnasia's 3-0 win over against Patronato before leaving at kick-off.

Maradona sat out Gimnasia's first days of training in August as a precaution to avoid the risk of becoming infected with COVID-19 as he is considered in the risk group

Maradona has suffered frequent periods in hospital over the years, often due to the extravagant lifestyle that accompanied and followed his playing career.

The former Barcelona and Napoli striker was also admitted to hospital in January 2019 with internal bleeding in the stomach.

He also fell ill at the 2018 World Cup in Russia, where he was filmed passing out in an executive box at the Argentina-Nigeria game.

Maradona was taken into hospital in 2004 with severe heart and respiratory problems linked to cocaine use.

He later underwent drug rehabilitation in Cuba and Argentina before a stomach-stapling operation in 2005 helped him lose weight.

In 2007 he checked himself into a clinic in Buenos Aires to help him overcome alcohol abuse problems.

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Diego Maradona LEAVES hospital in an ambulance eight days after he was admitted and on the same day first post-op picture of him emerged having had emergency surgery to remove a blood clot from his brain

* Diego Maradona has left hospital in an ambulance after his brain surgery
* The former footballer was driven away from the private Olivos Clinic
* Maradona had been in hospital for eight days after having a blood clot removed

Diego Maradona has left hospital in an ambulance just eight days after being admitted for emergency brain surgery.

The iconic former Argentinian footballer was driven away from the private Olivos Clinic just before 6pm on Wednesday as hundreds of fans of photographers tried to get a glimpse of him.

Maradona was hospitalised last week and had to have an emergency operation to remove a blood clot from his brain.


Diego Maradona has been seen leaving the hospital at 6pm in an ambulance (above). His departure came just eight days after he was admitted for an emergency operation

Argentinian TV reporters travelling on motorbikes filmed the ambulance carrying him leaving before following the vehicle to transmit every inch of his journey.

His lawyer, Matias Morla, has said that the 60-year-old will continue to receive treatment for alcohol dependency.

Maradona is expected to stay in a house near his older daughters.

Maradona, who won the World Cup with Argentina in 1986 and is now the coach of Gimnasia y Esgrima in his home country, has been admitted to hospital on several occasions since his retirement.


Maradona underwent an emergency operation to remove a blood clot from his brain

He almost died of cocaine-induced heart failure in 2000 and underwent years of rehabilitation.

Maradona, who was well known for having a wild lifestyle during and after his playing days, had a gastric bypass operation to lose weight in 2005 and was once more hospitalised two years later for alcohol-induced hepatitis.

He also fell ill at the last World Cup in Russia, where he was filmed passing out in an executive box when Argentina took on and beat Nigeria in Group D.

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'I feel sick': Football legend Diego Maradona dies of heart attack aged 60 after telling his nephew he didn't feel well and was going back to bed - two weeks after having surgery for a blood clot in his brain

* Diego Maradona has died from a heart attack at home in Buenos Aires, Argentina at the age of 60
* It comes just two weeks after the footballing hero left hospital following surgery for a bleed on the brain
* Renowned for his stunning playing ability, he was also notorious for his wild lifestyle off the pitch
* He had a history of health problems including heart attacks which were linked to his alcohol and drug abuse
* Maradona is survived by five children by four different women, including his wife of 20 years Claudia Villafane

Diego Maradona's last words before he died were: 'I feel sick.'

The Argentinian football legend, 60, suffered a heart attack at home on Wednesday just two weeks after he was released from hospital following surgery for a bleed on his brain.

Maradona won the World Cup with Argentina in 1986, having knocked England out in the quarter final with the infamous 'Hand of God' goal and another - later voted 'Goal of the Century.'

Renowned for his breathtaking playing ability, Maradona's wild life off the pitch was equally notorious; running around with the mafia in Naples, serial womanising and a lethal dependency on alcohol and cocaine.

On Wednesday morning, Maradona had come down for breakfast looking pale and complained that he felt cold.

'Me siento mal,' he told his nephew before returning to bed in the Buenos Aires mansion.

Shortly before noon a nurse discovered Maradona and phoned for help but he was dead before paramedics could arrive.

Three days of mourning have been declared by the Argentinian president Alberto Fernandez.

'You took us to the top of the world. You made us immensely happy. You were the greatest of all,' the leader tweeted. 'Thanks for having existed, Diego. We will miss you for a lifetime.'

Thousands of mourners have poured onto the streets of Buenos Aires and Naples in Italy to honour Maradona as stadiums across Europe fell silent ahead of Champions League clashes on Wednesday night.


Diego Maradona, Argentinian footballing legend and one of the greatest ever to play the game, has died at the age of 60 (pictured lifting the World Cup in 1986)


LAST PICTURE: Maradona's death comes just three weeks after he underwent surgery on a blood clot in his brain (pictured), and less than a month after he turned 60

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Maradona's Hand of God was responsible for England's elimination from the 1986 World Cup

Maradona is survived by five children, including his daughters Dalma, 33, and Ganina, 31, by his first and only wife Claudia Villafane, 58, to whom he was married from 1984 to 2004.

He had his youngest son Diego Fernando with his long-term girlfriend Veronica Ojeda in 2013; while he only acknowledged Diego Junior, 34, and daughter Jana, 23, in the last five years, both born after short flings.

The footballer's family have yet to make any formal comment.

The last hours of the former Naples and Barcelona star's short short life were played out in Argentinian media on Wednesday night as an autopsy expected to show he had died from a massive heart attack got underway.

Paramedics made an unsuccessful attempt to revive him after they arrived at the rented house in the gated residential estate of San Andres north of Buenos Aires he had moved to after leaving hospital following his operation on November 11.

Prosecution chief John Broyad, speaking outside San Andres as the retired footballer's body was taken to a nearby morgue for an autopsy, said: 'Diego Armando Maradona died around 12pm local time. The forensic police began their work at 4pm.

'No signs of any criminality 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 stage that everything is pointing to natural causes.'

Maradona's body is scheduled to be taken to the Argentinian's president's mansion, Casa Rosada, in the city of Olivos for a private viewing on Thursday morning.

It is believed that his wake will take place at the mansion, the seat of the country's national government which houses the president's office.

Maradona, who only turned 60 on October 30, spelled out while he was still alive the message he wanted engraved on his tombstone.

The soccer legend made the astonishing admission in a bizarre TV interview 15 years ago in which he revealed that 'getting old with his grandchildren would mean a peaceful death' for him.

Asked by interviewer Diego Maradona what he would say in the cemetery to the soccer legend, the interviewee said: 'Thanks for having played football because it's the sport that gave me most happiness and freedom and it's like having touched the sky with my hand. Thanks to the ball.

'Yes, I would put on the tombstone, "Thanks to the ball."

A hearse from the coroner's office carrying Maradona's body was escorted by police to the medical examiner's office as fans lined the surrounding streets to catch a glimpse of it on Wednesday afternoon.

Thousands of fans have poured onto the streets in Argentina today, many at the entrance to the football club in Buenos Aires that Maradona had managed since September last year, Club de Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata.

They hung up a banner with the legend's face painted across it and of his mother Dalma Salvadora Franco.


Thousands gather to mourn the death of soccer legend Diego Maradona, outside the Diego Armando Maradona stadium, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Wednesday


Thousands of Napoli fans gathered outside the San Paolo Stadium to pay their respects to the player who led them to Champions League glory

A supporter struggled to hold back tears, describing the Argentine 'an unforgettable figure. We thank him for everything he did.'

Argentine network TN reported that its website, along with newspaper Clarín and other media outlets, were temporarily down as fans flocked to the site as news about Maradona's death broke.

In the Buenos Aires town of Villa Devoto where Maradona grew up, his former neighbours placed Argentine flags on their balconies as broadcast calls from his World Cup goals blared from a loud speakers.

A 60-year-old woman recalled the late star would escape from his childhood home in Villa Fiorito, where a bevy of fans gathered to exchange anecdotes.

'This was a poor area when Maradona lived here. The streets were filled with rock,' she said. 'He never forgot about his roots.'

A man sitting in the stands at the stadium where Maradona debuted as a 15-year-old for Argentina Juniors on October 20, 1976 recalled being there on the day and said he was 'a star'.

'The truth is that football has died,' he said. 'The truth is he had the life that he had. No one can censor it. It was difficult being Diego, coming out from where he grew up.'

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro lamented the death of Maradona, whom he considered a close friend, and shared several photos of the past meetings.

'With much sadness the legend of football has left us, a brother and unconditional friend of Venezuela. Dear and irreverent 'Pelusa', you will always be in my heart and in my thoughts. I have no words at the moment to express what I feel. Farewell, America's Pibe!'

Argentina's former manager Cesar Luis Menotti said: 'I'm devastated. I can't believe it. I'm absolutely gutted. There's no more I can say at this moment.

'I thought at first the news of his death was fake news but obviously it's what happened. It's terrible and a tragic surprise because measures had been taken to make sure he was being looked after.'

UEFA have announced that Maradona will be honoured by minute's silence before Wednesday night's Champions League games.

The fifth of eight children, Maradona was born in Lanús, in the Argentinian province of Buenos Aires, on October 30, 1960 to a Roman Catholic family.

He was very close to his parents and siblings, demonstrated during a 1990 interview during which he produced stacks of phone bills which showed he had spent a minimum of 15,000 U.S. dollars a month calling his family.

They were poor, but close-knit, and he received his first football as a gift at the age of three, quickly falling in love with the game of football in Argentina, where the sport plays a key part in its culture.

By the age of 10, Maradona had joined Los Cebollitas - the youth team of Argentinos Juniors, one of the biggest clubs in Argentina - leading them to an incredible 136-game unbeaten streak.

He was even given the nickname 'El Pibe de Oro' ('The Golden Boy').

He made his first professional debut for the club's senior team shortly before his 16th birthday, before going on to play for Bocca Juniors, Barcelona and Napoli, making 491 professional appearances and 91 for the national team.

But despite his highly successful playing career and 1984 marriage to his childhood sweetheart Claudia Villafane, by the mid-1980s, Maradona had become addicted to cocaine, having started to use the drug in Barcelona in 1983.

By the time he was playing for Napoli - in the southern Italian city of Naples - his addiction had become more severe and started to interfere with his ability to play the sport which had made him an icon.

During his time in Naples, Maradona was elevated to the status of a demi-god in the city after helping to win Napoli its first European competition - the UEFA Cup, and two league championships.

But he was having a particularly hard time dealing with his fame, unable to go anywhere in the city without being hounded by the media and playing for a club he wanted leave - all while in the depths of a cocaine addiction.

It was in the crime-ridden city that Maradona enlisted the services of the Camorra - a notorious mafia crew - who offered him protection.

This served to indulge his habits of partying, taking hard drugs and enjoying the company of women other than his wife - reportedly having multiple affairs.

After a phone call with a prostitute was tapped by the police in January 1991, charges were brought against Maradona for cocaine possession and distribution, and in April the same year a blood test found traces of the drug, leading to a 15-months ban from football.

From Italy, he fled to Argentina, but was arrested there for cocaine possession as well, with pictures from the time showing a tearful Maradona being led away by police.

In 1994, eight years after his epic World Cup-winning performances in 1986, Maradona's issues with drugs were laid bare to the world in a manic celebration against Greece during the World Cup group game in the United States.

After scoring a goal, the then 33-year-old wheeled away in celebration, screaming maniacally into a pitch-side camera.

Not long after the goal, Maradona was dismissed from international duties, and was sent home from the World Cup after testing positive for five variants of ephedrine - a performance enhancing drug banned by football's governing body.

In 1998 - a year after he had retired from professional football - the icon received a prison sentence of two years and 10 months following an incident in which he shot an air rifle at reporters.

The incident had occurred in Feburary 1994, a resulted in four injuries after Maradona had become angry at journalists showing up at his Buenos Aires house. Footage from the incident showed him firing the weapon from behind a car.

Maradona also had the tendency to put on weight, suffering increasingly from obesity as he got older. At one point, he weighed 280 lbs (135 kg), and was obese at the end of his playing career.

For the rest of his life, he suffered from health issues, undergoing a gastric bypass in 2005, was readmitted to hospital in 2007 and treated for hepatitis and effects of alcohol abuse, and underwent surgery for a hernia in 2019.

In January, he had surgery to stem bleeding in his stomach and in July he underwent a knee operation.

Three weeks ago he was admitted to hospital for surgery on a blood clot in his brain, before being discharged to recover at home.

It was there that he died on Wednesday.

His footballing career also included turns on the pitch for Barcelona, Sevilla, Boca Juniors and Newell's Old Boys and he was most recently manager of Gimnasia y Esgrima in La Plata, Argentina.

He also managed the Argentinian national team at the South Africa World Cup in 2010.

The Argentine news outlet Clarin broke the news on Wednesday afternoon UK time, describing the news of Maradona's passing as having a 'worldwide impact'.

The sad news was confirmed by Maradona's lawyer. Soon, tributes were pouring in from all over the world of football.

Maradona left hospital on November 11 just eight days after being admitted for emergency brain surgery.

The iconic former Argentinian footballer was driven away from the private Olivos Clinic just before 6pm on November 11 as hundreds of fans of photographers tried to get a glimpse of him.

Maradona was hospitalised the previous week and had to have an emergency operation to remove a blood clot from his brain.


An ambulance carrying Argentine soccer great Diego Maradona leaves the clinic where Maradona underwent brain surgery, in Olivos, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Argentina November 11, 2020


People light flares as they gather under a mural depicting soccer legend Diego Maradona, in Naples, Italy, Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2020


TIGRE, ARGENTINA - NOVEMBER 25: Fans of Boca Juniors hold a banner as they gather outside the home of Diego Maradona at San Andres neighbourhood on November 25, 2020 in Tigre, Argentina


Soccer fans hold a vigil for Diego Maradona outside the stadium of Argentinos Juniors soccer club, where he started as a professional footballer, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday

Argentinian TV reporters travelling on motorbikes filmed the ambulance carrying him leaving before following the vehicle to transmit every inch of his journey.

His lawyer, Matias Morlahas said that the 60-year-old would continue to receive treatment for alcohol dependency.

Maradona had been admitted to hospital on several occasions since his retirement. He almost died of cocaine-induced heart failure in 2000 and underwent years of rehabilitation.

Maradona, who was well known for having a wild lifestyle during and after his playing days, had a gastric bypass operation to lose weight in 2005 and was once more hospitalised two years later for alcohol-induced hepatitis.

He also fell ill at the last World Cup in Russia, where he was filmed passing out in an executive box when Argentina took on and beat Nigeria in Group D.

MARADONA'S LONG HISTORY OF DRUG AND ALCOHOL ABUSE

Maradona began taking cocaine in the mid-1980s - during the height of his playing days, going on to develop an addiction to drugs and alcohol over the next two decades.

His drug use began in 1982 and reportedly grew worse in 1984 when he moved to Napoli and had connections with the Comorra.

In 2014, Maradona said of his drug use: 'I gave my opponents a big advantage. Do you know the player I could have been if I hadn't taken drugs?'

His first real punishment came in 1991 when he was banned for 15 months by Napoli after testing positive for cocaine. Later in the same year he was arrested in Buenos Aires for possessing half a kilo of cocaine, and was given a 14-month suspended sentence.

In 1994, Maradona was back in the fold with the Argentina national team, making headlines around the world for a now-famous screaming celebration into the camera lens after a goal against Greece. His tournament was to come to an early end, though, after he was expelled days later for testing positive for five variants of ephedrine, a banned substance. He was banned for 15 months, ending his international career.

In 1995, he moved to Boca Juniors but two years later he failed a drugs test for the third time in six years, putting an end to his playing career. Officially, a 'prohibited substance' is all that has been revealed about that test, but Boca president Mauricio Macri has said in interviews that cocaine was found in a urine sample.

In 1996, Maradona said publicly: 'I was, am and always will be a drug addict.'

In 2000, the footballing legend suffered an overdose, and in 2004 he had a heart attack. A year later, he was forced to have gastric bypass surgery, and in 2007 he was back in hospital again, this time suffering hepatitis.

It is then understood he stopped taking drugs, telling a journalist in 2017 that he hadn't taken drugs for 13 years and was feeling 'great'.

He has been drinking alcohol since 2004, though, hitting the headlines at the 2018 World Cup for his bizarre antics at a number of Argentina games. A video emerged of him drinking tequila on a plane, and he claimed he 'drank all the wine' ahead of their win over Nigeria.

Two nights after Argentina's tumultuous winning of the 1978 World Cup, the streets of Buenos Aires still thronged with millions of celebrants as Cesar Luis Menotti held court in the bar of a downtown hotel.

That most languid of football managers was savouring the moment of glory with his heroes.

As Menotti clinked glasses with Passarella and Ardiles, Kempes and Luque, a slight figure sat in a dim corner, too small to be noticed and too young to drink.

Diego Armando Maradona was occupying only a vague corner of Menotti's mind.

The boy slipped away early into the night and not until dawn was breaking did Menotti have reason to discuss the future of that almost anonymous teenager.

Mario Kempes, the goal-scoring hero in the World Cup and its extraordinary final against Holland, had just informed his manager that he was unlikely to be released by his Spanish club for FIFA's anniversary showpiece fixture, to which Argentina were committed a couple of months later.

As the players dispersed, in the reluctant way that triumphant gladiators do, I asked Menotti how he could possibly replace the great Kempes for such a prestigious occasion.

'Did you notice that boy in the bar earlier?'

'Let me give you one piece of advice. Be there.' Maradona had been disappointed to be considered too young at 17 to be part of the home glory of 1978. But the advent of the unlikely looking genius who was to become the most potent challenger to Pele's mantle of Greatest Footballer Of All Time would not be delayed much longer.

As advised, I travelled to Switzerland that autumn and watched in some awe as Maradona unfurled his phenomenal talent in Argentina's reprise of their World Cup Final against Holland.

Such was my enthusiasm for the new wonder boy of the world game that several of my most distinguished sportswriting colleagues chided me gently for going over the top. But they had not been there.

When Argentina toured on from Switzerland, first to Hampden Park, then to Wembley, so the rest of Fleet Street saw Maradona's brilliance for themselves - and were astonished.

Not for nothing will the whole world of football now fall into mourning.

The facile tendency in England to vilify Maradona as nothing more than the culprit in the handball goal that defeated Bobby Robson's brigade in the World Cup quarter-finals of Mexico 86 does no justice to one of the most gifted sportsmen of all time.

As Menotti described him on that long, hot night so many years earlier: 'You will see that this boy, Diego, is a footballer made in heaven.'

Maradona, as he rose from the poverty of the Buenos Aires slums to play for the team which represented every poor boy's dream, Boca Juniors, and then to illuminate Argentina's World Cup exploits, became a symbol of hope for a people.

That he is a rascal, an incorrigible mischief-maker, a troubled human being and, ultimately, a waster of his own talent, only serves to make him all the more appealing to his fellow countrymen.

They like their genius to come wrapped in controversy and bubbling with volatility in South America.

That was one reason why Pele was so reluctant to embrace the natural successor to his throne. The other was that Maradona represented the most threatening challenge to the legendary Brazilian's unique place in the pantheon of the game.

The unlikely body in which those mercurial gifts were to be found - short, squat, bowlegged and no-necked - made Maradona's status in Pele's beautiful game all the more difficult to acknowledge.

Yet it was that low centre of gravity which blessed Diego Armando with a remarkable dexterity on the turn and acceleration with the ball. It was that capacity to produce magical skills at electrifying pace especially in the deadly zone around goal - which still sets Maradona apart from even the sublime likes of Zidane, Ronaldo, Cruyff, Platini and all the rest of Pele's apostles.

The most vivid demonstration of those talents came, as we should remember, against England in Mexico.

Robson and his players of the day remember it only too well.

No, not the cross nudged in with his hand but the other goal, the one he scored with a dazzling pirouette away from a posse of England players, an unstoppable run from the halfway line and a typically impudent finish. That stands, still, as the greatest World Cup goal of all time.

But what of the Hand of God?

Does that not diminish Maradona's reputation as much as his misspent life?

Not, if pressed to the truth, in the estimation of Lineker, Robson and Co.

Whisper it gently when Peter Shilton is in earshot but, for the most part, the England team faulted their goalkeeper for not thumping his way through the head and body of the short Maradona to clear the ball. A calm study of the photograph of that incident now reveals Maradona with his eyes closed and his arm raised as if to protect himself from the expected impact of Shilton's advance from his line.

Subsequently, he became the victim of his own, clever little phrase to describe that momentous happening.

Maradona and Argentina deserved to win that World Cup. Four years later, he was the captain and hero of the team which lost that trophy and I do mean hero.

Argentina staggered into the Final - which Germany reached by virtue of their expert penalty shootout against England - under the self-inflicted handicap of several suspensions as a consequence of their cynical football.

But Maradona was still trying to work his magic even though he had virtually been crippled by opponents desperate to subdue him. He showed me his ankles two days before the Final - a forlorn affair in Argentina's case - and they were as black, blue and swollen as his self-abused body is now.

By the time he got to the United States in 1994, he was sustaining himself on drugs and, after one magical but manic moment, was caught and shamed by the testers.

Mistaken though he had been in his means of trying to cling to the failing glories, he was a lost soul from that moment on.

The addictions, the scandals, the physical assaults on intrusive representatives of the media and the retreat to such absurd havens as Havana all spoke of his desperation.

Argentina still loved him but he no longer loved himself.

Maradona saw himself for what he is, the little fat boy who never grew up.

In the eyes of his nation, he was Peter Pan, an enchanting child, albeit in a grotesque, misshapen form.

Now, after bringing so many so much pleasure, he is due a full measure of our sympathy.

Think of him not as the Hand of God. Think of him as the second greatest footballer ever to grace the game. Perhaps the greatest.

Think of him not as a drugged fiend. Think of him as a broken doll in a toy hospital A Pinocchio awaiting the gift of life.

That blessing which the hand of God had delivered several times before. U

Pele, Cristiano Ronaldo, Marcus Rashford and Barcelona lead the tributes to 'legendary' Diego Maradona as the world of football mourns the passing of Argentine hero
By JAMES DUTTON FOR MAILONLINE

Tributes from the world of football have flooded in for Diego Maradona after he died at the age of 60.

The football legend had a heart attack at his home just two weeks after leaving hospital, having undergone surgery on a blot clot in his brain.

Maradona, regarded as one of the greatest footballers of all time, helped Argentina win the World Cup in 1986, the pinnacle of an illustrious career that saw him widely adored for spells at Boca Juniors, Barcelona and Napoli at club level.

His former clubs and the Argentina national team's Twitter account were among the first to pay tribute to him.

Barcelona, where he enjoyed two seasons between 1982 and 1984, tweeted: 'Thank you for everything, Diego'.

The AFA, tweeted: 'The Argentine Football Association, through its president Claudio Tapia, expresses its deepest sorrow for the death of our legend, Diego Armando Maradona. You will always be in our hearts.'





Boca Juniors, where Maradona began and ended his career in Argentina, tweeted: 'Eternal thank you. Eternal Diego.'

Napoli, where Maradona spent seven years between 1984 and 1991 and won the club's only two Serie A titles in 1987 and 1990, wrote: 'Always in our hearts. Ciao Diego'.

They then tweeted again, saying: 'The world awaits our words but there are no words to describe the pain we're going through. Now is the time to grieve'.

Another football legend, the great Brazilian Pele, wrote: 'What sad news. I lost a great friend and the world lost a legend. There is still much to be said, but for now, may God give strength to family members. One day, I hope we can play ball together in the sky.'

With the sport in mourning, Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford led the tributes as news of the passing first broke with just one word, 'Legendary', alongside a picture of the former Napoli and Barcelona icon in his heyday.





Cristiano Ronaldo posted an old picture of himself with Maradona on his Instagram account and wrote: 'Today I say goodbye to a friend and the world says goodbye to an eternal genius.

'One of the best ever. An unparalleled magician. He leaves too soon, but leaves a legacy without limits and a void that will never be filled. Rest in peace, ace. You will never be forgotten.'

Former Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand posted a series of pictures of him with Maradona over the years, and wrote a heartfelt message saying: 'My 1st football hero. Few people have impact over generations like this man did. The greatest, the best, the artist, the man...charismatic, a leader...A WINNER!

'One of the main reasons why I went out on my estate to kick a ball, pretending to be Diego. RIP Diego Armando Maradona.'

Gary Lineker, who was on the receiving end of Maradona's famous Hand of God and his incredible solo goal in Argentina's quarter-final victory over England in Mexico in 1986, tweeted: 'Reports from Argentina that Diego Armando Maradona has died.





'By some distance the best player of my generation and arguably the greatest of all time. After a blessed but troubled life, hopefully he'll finally find some comfort in the hands of God. #RipDiego '.

The England national team's Twitter account, on the wrong end of Maradona's magic and infamous handball 34 years ago, wrote: 'Unforgettable. Farewell, Diego. A legend of our game.'

Sky Sports pundit Jamie Carragher tweeted: 'I'll never forget watching Diego Maradona as an 8 yr old at the World Cup in Mexico. Never seen anything like it on that stage since. Sad news #Maradona '.

Former England and Liverpool striker Michael Owen added: 'Quite simply - a player like no other. Rest In Peace Diego Maradona.'

England captain Harry Kane tweeted a picture of when he met Maradona in the Tottenham dressing room in 2017, and wrote: 'Privileged to have met him. Very sad news. RIP Diego Maradona.'

His manager, Jose Mourinho, took to his Instagram account to share a picture of him on the bench with Maradona, and wrote: 'Don Diego. F**k friend I miss you'.

Juventus boss Andrea Pirlo wrote: 'The god of football goes away... thanks for everything Diego.'

Stan Collymore tweeted: 'The football Gods shone brightly on this one. What an incredible, incredible footballer.'

Everton striker Richarlison tweeted a picture of Maradona in a Brazil shirt, with just a sad face emoji to accompany it.

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Argentine President Alberto Fernandez (L) and his partnet Fabiola Yanez paying tribute to the coffin of Argentine football legend Diego Maradona at the burning chapel in Casa Rosada presidential palace in Buenos Aires on November 26


Argentina's football players pay tribute to Maradona as scarves, flags and football jerseys are piled up around the coffin draped in the national flag at his wake in the presidential palace on Thursday


Pallbearers take the coffin to the hearse following Maradona's wake at the presidential palace on Thursday. Maradona's coffin draped in the Argentinian flag is carried out of the presidential palace late on Thursday afternoon. Pallbearers carry the casket of soccer legend Diego Maradona after a public viewing at the presidential palace Casa Rosada, in Buenos Aires


The daughters of the late Argentine football legend Diego Maradona, Dalma, 33, (left) and Giannina, 31, leave the Casa Rosada presidential palace at the end of the wake in Buenos Aires on Thursday


People react on the street as the hearse carrying the casket of soccer legend Diego Armando Maradona travels to Bella Vista cemetery


The hearse carrying the casket of Diego Maradona leaves the government house in Buenos Aires, Argentina


The hearse carrying the casket of soccer legend Diego Maradona drives to the cemetery in Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 26, 2020


The coffin with the remains of late Argentine football legend Diego Armando Maradona is carried by his family and friends at the Jardin Bella Vista cemetery, in Buenos Aire


Aerial view of the burial of late Argentine football legend Diego Armando Maradona at the Jardin Bella Vista cemetery, in Buenos Aires province, on Thursday


Aerial view of the burial of late Argentine football legend Diego Armando Maradona at the Jardin Bella Vista cemetery, in Buenos Aires province


Aerial view of the burial of late Argentine football legend Diego Armando Maradona at the Jardin Bella Vista cemetery, in Buenos Aires province, on November 26, 2020

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Napoli lit up their San Paolo Stadium to honour Diego Maradona following his death on Wednesday


Thousands of fans gathered outside the ground to pay their respects to the Argentine


Candles were lit outside the ground as supporters honoured their football hero


Every Napoli player wore the No 10 shirt with Maradona on the back before kick-off


Maradona's image remained on the screens throughout the game as part of another tribute


Napoli's starting XI hold up a Maradona 10 shirt before kick-off to honour the Argentine


Napoli captain Lorenzo Insigne laid a bouquet of flowers alongside supporters' tributes


Scarves, photos and messages have also been left on the railings outside the ground


The Italians beat the Croatian side 2-0 which puts them top of their Europa League group. Hirving Lozano scored the second goal and pointed to the sky as he dedicated the strike to Maradona

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Kabarnya ketiga orang ini dikecam bahkan diancam keselamatannya oleh fans Maradona karena dianggap tidak layak berfoto dengan jasad Maradona yang sudah terbaring kaku di peti mati..

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Barcelona will have to pay a £2,700 fine after Lionel Messi paid tribute to Diego Maradona


Messi celebrated his goal against Osasuna by taking off Barcelona's blue-and-burgundy strip to reveal the red-and-black of Newell's


Maradona, who died last week at the age of 60, played for Newell's at the end of his career


Messi also blew a kiss with both hands to the sky as he looked upward at an empty Nou Camp


Afterwards, Messi posted a photo of his tribute alongside an image of Maradona in the shirt


Boca Juniors players went over to Maradona's daughter Dalma after scoring on Sunday night


They applauded her and Dalma, in attendance at La Bombonera, was overcome by emotion