El Pibe de Oro has passed away.
The icon Diego Armando Maradona lost his life this Wednesday, November 25, 2020, his entourage has just announced.
After his incredible career, the life of the Argentine star had been punctuated by many health problems, some of which were linked to excesses of all kinds which sometimes made him flirt with death.
In 2000, he had a heart attack following an overdose in the seaside resort of Punta del Este.
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He then followed a long cure in Cuba.
In 2004, when he weighed over 100 kg, another heart attack struck him down in Buenos Aires, but he got away with it.
He had subsequently undergone stomach surgery.
In 2007, excessive alcohol consumption had taken him to hospital.
At the beginning of November he had to undergo brain surgery due to a blood clot.
An operation from which he had come out "without after-effects", his surgeon had said.
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