Diego Maradona has died from a heart attack just days after turning 60.
The Argentinian football legend died at home, his lawyer said, just three weeks after having surgery on a blot clot in his brain.
Maradona won the World Cup with Argentina in 1986, having knocked England out of the tournament in a match which saw him score the infamous 'Hand of God' goal and another - widely considered to be one of the greatest goals of all time.
Regarded as one of the greatest players of all time on the pitch, his life off the pitch was equally notorious - amid battles with drug and alcohol addiction.
bodleing2: Three days of mourning announced in Argentina.
I don't deny that Maradona was a football player of excellent level. But that was all. His personal life was disastrous. Several women, lately younger than their own daughters, children recognized and unrecognized everywhere, drugs, alcohol, addictions.... I think he is far from being considered a god, as some call him.
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The Argentinian football legend died at home, his lawyer said, just three weeks after having surgery on a blot clot in his brain.
Maradona won the World Cup with Argentina in 1986, having knocked England out of the tournament in a match which saw him score the infamous 'Hand of God' goal and another - widely considered to be one of the greatest goals of all time.
Regarded as one of the greatest players of all time on the pitch, his life off the pitch was equally notorious - amid battles with drug and alcohol addiction.