Diego Maradona died: the day he spoke of his death and wondered what his funeral would be like

11/25/2020 3:23 PM

• Clarín.com

• Fame

Updated 11/25/2020 3:28 PM

After knowing the death of

, at age 60, a video of the former footballer in the remembered program he led in El Trece,

(

began to go viral, both on social networks and in different WhatsApp groups

( 2005).

In the cycle, Maradona interviewed great figures of sport and international entertainment.

But there was a special program, in which

The fragment that went viral from that interview is the one that Maradona talks about his own death.

"If you had to say a few words to Maradona in the cemetery, what would you say to him?" He asks himself.

The day of Maradona's interview with Maradona in "La noche del Diez".

"What would I say to him? And you ask me that," Ten answers.

And then, in his role as interviewee, Maradona responds with one of his legendary phrases:

Thank you for having played soccer, because it is the sport that gave me the most happiness, the most freedom. I touched the sky with hands thanks to the ball ".

"It would put on a tombstone 'Thanks to the ball'," he

said.

Digital image of a television effect made on October 14, 2005, in which former soccer player Diego Armando Maradona interviewed himself.

afp photo File.

Later, he wondered what Claudia Villafañe would say at her farewell.

Maradona died this Wednesday, November 25, after suffering a cardiorespiratory arrest in the San Andrés neighborhood, in the Buenos Aires province of Tigre, where he had settled days ago after the operation on his head to which he was subjected for a subdural hematoma.

On October 30, he had turned 60.

As confirmed by Clarín in a world premiere, Maradona decompensated at 10 in the morning and died minutes after noon, after the doctors who attended him tried to revive him without success.

The 1986 world champion in Mexico had undergone surgery for a blood clot in the head in early November.

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