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Apr
22
2023
By The African Mirror
Eight healthcare workers face trial over Maradona’s death – reports

Eight healthcare workers face trial over Maradona’s death – reports

WORLD
EIGHT healthcare workers will go on trial over the death of Diego Maradona after being charged with "homicide by negligence", Argentine media reported. The footballing great, who led Argentina to a second World Cup title in 1986, died aged 60 in November 2020 from heart failure after undergoing brain surgery days earlier. A court in San Isidro, a town on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, rejected defence appeals for a lesser charge and upheld a year-old indictment by prosecutors for "reckless and inefficient work" in the treatment of the former Boca Juniors and Napoli player, TV channel TN reported. The…
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Dec
21
2022
By The African Mirror
Argentina’s World Cup winners arrive home to hero’s welcome

Argentina’s World Cup winners arrive home to hero’s welcome

SPORT
NICOLÁS MISCULIN and MIGUEL LO BIANCO THOUSANDS of ecstatic fans gave Argentina's football squad a hero's welcome in Buenos Aires in the early hours before dawn on Tuesday after the plane carrying Lionel Messi and his World Cup-winning teammates touched down at Ezeiza airport. The Argentine capital has been in party mode since their dramatic victory over France in Sunday's final in Qatar, which gave the country its first World Cup win since Diego Maradona hoisted the trophy 36 years ago. The players, wearing their gold winners' medals around their necks and taking turns to hold the World Cup trophy aloft, waved…
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Dec
20
2022
By The African Mirror
Soccer Argentina’s post-Maradona youth revel in Messi’s maiden World Cup win

Soccer Argentina’s post-Maradona youth revel in Messi’s maiden World Cup win

SPORT
MIGUEL LO BIANCO and HORACIO SORIA ARGENTINE Santiago Cutaia, 34, had never felt the elation of his country winning the soccer World Cup before, born two years after late icon Diego Maradona last hoisted the trophy aloft for the Albiceleste in 1986. He has now. His generation, who grew up after the peak of Maradona, witnessed for the first time their team become world champions on Sunday, beating France on penalties in a whipsaw final. It was the third World Cup for Argentina, but the first in 36 years. "I am 34 years old and I had never seen Argentina…
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May
02
2021
By The African Mirror
Maradona care ‘deficient and reckless’ before death, medical board report finds

Maradona care ‘deficient and reckless’ before death, medical board report finds

WORLD
JUAN BUSTAMANE A medical board appointed to investigate the death of Diego Maradona has concluded that the soccer star's medical team acted in an "inappropriate, deficient and reckless manner," according to a copy of the report shared with Reuters. Maradona's death in November last year rocked the South American nation where he was revered, prompting a period of mourning and angry finger pointing about who was to blame after the icon's years-long battle with addiction and ill health. Argentine prosecutors launched investigations shortly after Maradona's death at age 60 from heart failure at a house near Buenos Aires, including ordering…
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Mar
11
2021
By The African Mirror
Argentines march, seeking answers over Maradona’s death

Argentines march, seeking answers over Maradona’s death

WORLD
NICOLAS MISCULIN  ARGENTINES took to the streets yesterday to demand what they say is justice for Diego Maradona after the soccer icon's death in November sparked investigations into how he died and whether there had been any negligence in his care. "He did not die, they killed him!," the organizers of the demonstration said in materials sent out on social media. "Justice for Diego. Trial and punishment of the guilty." The march will begin at 18:00 local time (2100 GMT) at the emblematic Obelisco monument in central Buenos Aires. Maradona, a World Cup winner with Argentina who is regarded as…
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Nov
30
2020
By The African Mirror
Maradona’s doctor probed for his death

Maradona’s doctor probed for his death

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER WORLD superstar Diego Maradona’s doctor, who is being investigated for his death, has denied any wrongdoing. Argentine law enforcement agencies yesterday raided the clinic and properties of Dr Leopoldo Luque in San Isidro, an affluent suburb in Buenos Aires, who face possible charges of culpable homicide. Luque has denied any wrongdoing. The investigation followed a complaint from Maradona’s three daughters about the treatment the football legend received days before his death. Maradona, who captained the Argentine national team that won the World Cup in 1986   died at age 60 of acute lung edema and chronic heart…
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Nov
27
2020
By The African Mirror
How Maradona’s ‘Hand of God’ quote went round the world

How Maradona’s ‘Hand of God’ quote went round the world

SPORT
MARTYN HERMAN IT became the most iconic sporting comment of all time but the English-speaking world very nearly did not get to hear Diego Maradona's pithy reflection on his infamous goal in Argentina's 2-1 defeat of England at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico. Reuters sports correspondent Rex Gowar was in the bowels of Azteca Stadium after the match when Maradona confessed to the most talked-about piece of cheating in soccer history. "It was my first World Cup with Reuters," Gowar, who first encountered a teenaged Maradona in Buenos Aires as a photographer for an Argentine newspaper, recalled on Wednesday…
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Nov
27
2020
By The African Mirror
Maradona, football legend, was a champion of Latin America’s left

Maradona, football legend, was a champion of Latin America’s left

WORLD
SARAH MARSH ARGENTINA football legend Diego Maradona said his hero, late Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro - whom he considered a "second father" and whose face he had tattooed on his leg - once urged him to go into politics. Maradona, who died on Wednesday aged 60, never fulfilled those aspirations but he did play a role in championing leftist leaders across Latin America - such as Castro, Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and Bolivia's Evo Morales - and in helping to lend them broader international appeal. "Everything Fidel does, everything Chavez does for me is the best (that can be done),"…
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Nov
27
2020
By The African Mirror
‘Adios Diego’: Maradona buried as world mourns soccer great

‘Adios Diego’: Maradona buried as world mourns soccer great

NEWS
MAXIMILIAN HEATH and GABRIELE PILERI ARGENTINA’S Diego Maradona, one of the world's greatest ever soccer players, has been buried, amid a global outpouring of grief from the streets of Buenos Aires to Naples in Italy. The death of Maradona at the age of 60 on Wednesday, following a heart attack, has sparked both mourning and celebrations of a true sporting star, who was a genius on the soccer field but lived a life marred by struggles with addiction. In a day of high emotion, the World Cup winner was taken by hearse late on Thursday to the Bella Vista cemetery…
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Nov
26
2020
By The African Mirror
My special moments with El Diez in Africa

My special moments with El Diez in Africa

NEWS
JERMANE CRAIG ‘El Diez’ is no more. Number ‘10’ will live forever. Diego Armando Maradona has died, and a piece of football’s soul has died with him. Maradona was my first football hero, I absolutely adored him.  As a 10-year-old, when I first truly began to understand and love the global game, it was the grainy images of Diego Maradona winning the 1986 FIFA World Cup almost single-handedly for Argentina that mesmerised me. He was sensational, magical, his talent defied belief. He caressed the ball, made love to the ball, it was seemingly glued to the laces of his football…
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