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Diego Maradona successfully operated on the brain

2020-11-04T03:11:34.188Z


"Everything went as planned": According to a spokesman, ex-soccer player Diego Maradona survived an operation on his head. The Argentine had previously been diagnosed with hemorrhage.


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Diego Maradona (in December 2017): "He's resting in his room now"

Photo: ALEXANDER NEMENOV / AFP

Football fans all over the world - especially in Argentina - are still worried about Diego Maradona.

But now there is a very positive interim result.

The Argentine footballer of the century has undergone surgery for a brain hemorrhage without complications.

"The Maradona operation is over and it was a success," wrote his press spokesman Sebastián Sanchi on Instagram on Tuesday.

"Everything went as planned. Diego is fine and he is now resting in his room."

Maradona's personal physician Leopoldo Luque had operated on the 1986 world champion in a clinic in Olivos north of Buenos Aires for a subdural hematoma.

This is a bleeding between the hard meninges and the brain.

Maradona was rushed to a hospital in La Plata on Monday.

At first there was only talk of stress, anemia and dehydration.

"It was a somewhat difficult week emotionally for him. He was under a lot of pressure. That hurt him psychologically," said doctor Luque on Monday.

The bleeding was discovered during the tests.

Maradona was only able to walk with help

On his 60th birthday on Friday, Maradona had already made a battered impression.

Before the first game of his club Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata after the Corona break, he came briefly to the stadium to receive congratulations and gifts.

However, he had to be supported by two companions while walking.

The 1986 world champion watched the game from home on the advice of his doctor.

The once ingenious playmaker has been fighting his drug addiction for many years and, according to Luque, has recently often resorted to alcohol to escape depression.

That's why Maradona also take antidepressants and suffer from insomnia.

Most recently, he had started a fitness program and had already lost significant weight.

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Source: spiegel

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