Diego Maradona: soccer star has died

Diego Maradona is dead. The Argentine Football Association has confirmed that. He died in his home at the age of 60.

Former soccer player and coach Diego Maradona has died at the age of 60. The Argentine media reported unanimously. The Argentine Football Association AFA has the death of the football legend confirmed. The star of the football world is said to have died in his private home after a heart attack. The Argentine had brain surgery in early November.

Eight days after the operation on the brain, the former world-class kicker was able to leave the hospital in a suburb of Buenos Aires. Maradona, who last worked as the coach of the Argentine soccer club Gimnasia, is said to have fallen in his house before a blood clot was found in his brain and surgically removed.

The great career of the Argentine

Diego Armando Maradona grew up as the fifth of eight children of a factory worker in Villa Fiorito, a slum on the outskirts of Buenos Aires. At nine he joined the children's team of the first division club Argentinos Juniors, at 15 he played in the first team, at 20 he was considered the best playmaker in South America. In 1981 he moved to the better-known local rival Boca Juniors and became Argentine champion. From 1985 he became world champion twice with his new club, SSC Napoli, and in 1986 with the Argentine national team (in the final against Germany). He coached the Argentine national team (2008-2010) at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa up to the quarter-finals.

The soccer legend had to struggle with health problems again and again. He has had two heart attacks in the past, suffered from hepatitis and had gastric bypass surgery because he was overweight. He also received multiple treatments for drug addiction.