Argentine soccer legend Diego Maradona has died at the age of 60 after suffering a sudden cardiac arrest, according to an official statement issued today by the Argentine Football Association.
The Argentine Football Association said in its statement that Maradona suffered a new health setback today at his home in Tigre, where he was recovering following an operation to remove a hematoma.
And Argentine media confirmed that Maradona’s condition deteriorated today, and he was taken in an ambulance to hospital.
Maradona is one of the greatest footballers of all time and led his country to Argentina to win the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, and played for many European clubs.
Among his training stations was that he led the Al Wasl team as a technical director in 2011, and lived for a long period of his life in Dubai, which he considered the closest city to his heart in the world.