LDiego Maradona’s younger brother, Hugo, died in Naples at the age of 52 on Tuesday, December 28. He succumbed to a heart attack, a little over a year after the disappearance of the Argentine genius.
The president of the club, Aurelio De Laurentiis, and the team “gather around the family of Maradona and unite with her in the pain caused by the disappearance of Hugo”, reacted the Napoli in a statement on its website . Hugo Maradona, father of three children, residing in Miami (Florida, south-eastern United States), was declared dead when help arrived at his home in Monte di Procida, in the Neapolitan metropolitan area.
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The two brothers face each other in a match
Former player, Hugo Maradona had evolved in Italy, Austria, Spain, Argentina and Japan, before returning to Italy to settle there permanently and embrace a brief coaching career in amateur clubs in Naples. He recently ran on a right-wing list in municipal elections, which the left ultimately won. He had barely reached the age of majority in the great southern port city, in 1987, recruited by Napoli, before being loaned to Ascoli. On September 20 of the same year, the two brothers clashed in a match won 2-1 by Napoli.