Argentina devotes unlimited worship to Diego Maradona, who died a year ago to the day at the age of 60.
So much so that some fans blinded by the adoration they have for the attacker imagined stealing his heart to make a sort of relic.
Nelson Castro, journalist and doctor, published a book a few days ago on the very fragile state of health of the former No.10 before he died due to a heart attack at his home in Buenos Aires. .
In his account, the author reveals that the Pibe de Oro was buried without his heart.
This one, which weighed half a kilo according to the neurologist while the average weight is around 260 grams, had in fact been taken for autopsy.
But not only according to the neurologist who affirms that the local authorities had been alerted to a macabre project carried out by supporters of Gimnasia La Plata, the last club to have been trained by the 1990 world champion. They had planned to extract the heart of the South American just before the burial in order to keep it as a souvenir.
Fortunately, the project could not be completed.
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The doctor also specified that Maradona's organ was still kept in La Plata, within the Department of Pathological Anatomy depending on the local police.
The prosecution, which is still investigating the circumstances of the death of the ex-player, regretted the dissemination of this information and justice was recently forced to strengthen security around the place where the heart is kept.