Regarded as one of the best football players of all time after a glistening career, Soccer legend Diego Maradona who died at the age of 60 laid to rest as thousands of fans lined up at the streets of Buenos Aires to pay their respects as his coffin was driven to the cemetery.
The 1986 World Cup winner was taken to the Bella Vista cemetery on the outskirts of the capital – where his parents were buried – for a private ceremony attended by only around two dozen relatives and close friends.
Maradona tragically lost his life on Wednesday at the age of 60 after suffering from a cardiac arrest barely a month after being discharged from the hospital after undertaking a surgery to remove a blood clot on his brain on 30th October 2020.
A true legend of the beautiful game of football , Maradona had countless fans – including many current footballers, managers as well as pundits and his death triggered mourning around the world but nowhere was it felt more fiercely than in a country were he was seen as a National Hero.
Maradona led Argentina to four World Cup tournaments, winning one in 1986 and losing in the final in 1990 and while wearing the Argentina jersey, Maradona engineered one of the most iconic moments in the football history by scoring during the ’86 championship run in Mexico City in a quarterfinals match against England by lightly using his fist, out of the referees’ view, a goal Maradona memorably described as “the hand of God.”
In his club career, Maradona put Italian club Napoli on the map and won five titles with them, including two Scudettos, he also won three titles with Spanish giants Barcelona and one with Argentina’s Boca Juniors.
Maradona also coached the national team of Argentina during the 2010 World Cup tournament.
Maradona’s rise and downfall in the sport was the subject of an HBO documentary that was released last year which chronicled the hard partying, alleged drug abuse and alcoholism that eventually derailed his glorious playing career.
REST IN PEACE DIEGO MARADONA
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