Why did the Argentine football legend die?

Process in Argentina begins

Why did Diego had to die?

Four years after the death of Diego Maradona, a court trial begins in Argentina on the circumstances of his death. The focus is on whether medical failures have contributed to death.

In a video message, his youngest daughter asked pathetically “justice for you”, the older one spoke nebulously of “fear of the mafia”. The father, Gianinna (35) and Dalma (37), submit the tone to the death of Diego Maradona before the court proceedings that started on Tuesday, which led to the death of Diego Maradona on Tuesday.

Four years, three months and two weeks after Argentina’s largest football idol had been found lifeless in his bed, the tribunal 3 will be working in the idyllic San Isidro at the gates of Buenos Aires-and wants to listen to around 120 witnesses in the next few months. The video of the corpse show, countless Whats app audio and messages come to the public.

Everything to finally find out why Maradona died. The death certificate attests “acute lung edema, triggered by chronic heart failure”. Maradona’s heart muscle had expanded pathologically for years. “I feel bad,” were the last words of the 1986 world champion before he lay down and never got up again.

With cocaine, alcohol and medication, he wanted to escape the growing depression and went into a fatal dependency. The liver destroys cirrhosis, the cardiovascular system also because of its obesity in constant disorder.

A few days after his 60th birthday, “D10S”, the football god (DIOS) with the number 10, was once again on the operating table due to brain bleeding. In the middle of the global corona pandemic, far from the family, long since in the hands of his personal physician Leopoldo Luque as well as his lawyer and consultant, Matias Morla.

Instead of transferring the patient to a rehabilitation clinic, Luque, a neurosurgeon, Maradona in his private apartment in Tigres, not far from the courtroom, under his wing and that of a team of supervisors with general practitioners, psychiatrists, psychologists and nurses. And none of them was sitting at the side of the football geniuses that seem more and more miserable in public appearances.

So have Luque and his colleagues accept the death of the Argentine symbolic figure, so have watched his dying stand without standing? Or was Maradona with his medical history, who took its course to death at the 1994 World Cup and a doping finding in the 1994 World Cup, and in the end acted a resistant to advisory?

Daughter Gianinna has an answer: “You didn’t die, you killed you.” For her, but also for many of his compatriots, the years may be without the idol, but the pain of his loss simply doesn’t stop.