The controversies surrounded Maradona until his last day and now they continue without him (Number, Japón)

 

There is a coincidence in a large part of the Argentine people that Diego Armando Maradona, one of the great icons of the country, could die at any moment due to his increasingly complicated state of health and yet it was clear that no one was sufficiently prepared for a news that came when it seemed that he was just recovering.

Several times Maradona was close to death (the most shocking happened in late 2000 in Uruguay, when he was miraculously saved and welcomed in Cuba by former President Fidel Castro, perhaps the only person Maradona truly admired), that the Argentines got used to receiving the news of his death as fake, but this time it was confirmed and a crowd took the streets to express their immense sorrowsinging his name like in a stadiumand at 10 pm the people applauded moved and for a minute in tribute to the super star.

The last days of Maradona could not avoid the controversies around his health between professionals with mixed opinions and pulls between his relatives and between them and his environment (lawyer and personal doctor) and even between ex-partners out of jealousy.

At the beginning of 2020, he had been excited about the technical direction of Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata in the highest category of Argentine football, but his health did not allow him to continue at work, he had gone from that drug addiction to another to alcohol, plus dilated cardiomyopathy (his heart was twice its natural size) and other chronic problems. It was difficult for him to walk (he did it with crutches or supported by assistants) and he spoke babbling. He then left his daily task in Gymnastics (which was inexorably heading down to Second Division) in the hands of his collaborators Sebastián Méndez and Adrián González, with his supervision from his residence in Estancia Chica.

At the beginning of October, everything seemed to improve around him. His closest people (the doctor Leopoldo Luque and his lawyer and representative, MatíasMorla) maintained that he had lost weight, that he was recovering from his knee problems doing exercises, and he himself declared that he was "happy." The announced return of Argentine football, after seven months of quarantine, seemed to generate a particular illusion and a sign was that the new National Cup would begin precisely on Friday, October 30, the day of his sixtieth birthday, and relegation to Second Division was suspended (for what which, Gymnastics was saved).

However, everything collapsed like a house of cards. That same day of his birthday, the president of the AFA, Claudio Tapia and the president of the Football League, Marcelo Tinelli, wanted to get political gain by appearing in a photo with him and made him go to the Gymnastics field to give him a commemorative plate and hugging him when his state of health was delicate and it was not advisable to leave his house (in fact, he did not even stay for the game), and he especially felt the absence of his deceased parents (Diego and Dalma), so much so that he wore a face maskwith a photo of him as a young man, accompanied by them.

It was also learned that there was not so much tranquility in his house and on his birthday the confrontation between his three daughters (Dalma, Giannina and Jana -his son Diego lives in Italy-) with those who accompanied him on a day-to-day basis, and between the daughters and the former partner and mother of her young child Diego Fernando, Verónica Ojeda. "I tell everyone that I am not going to leave anything to you, that I am going to donate everything I generated in my life," he shouted at them at one point, about the 500 million dollars he would have, according to the website "Celebrity Net Worth ”. To make matters worse, he had had tough legal exchanges with his first wife, Claudia Villafañe, for issues related to the imminent Netflix series about his life, “SueñoBendito”.

Days later, the news impacted that he had been admitted to a clinic to be operated on for a subdural hematoma that did not seem to be serious, although another controversy broke out there: although everyone agreed that his departure should not be hurried and that he was a patient "very difficult to handle, used to doing his will," under his pressure, his personal doctor agreed that on November 11 he would leave the clinic when his doctor for many years, the psychiatrist Alfredo Cahe, also maintained otherwise.

They fitted him up, a house in the exclusive neighborhood of Nordelta, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, where again, he seemed to be recovering, until on Wednesday the 25th at 12 noon, when his psychologist Carlos Díaz came to his room as a routine and his psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov, discovered that he was lying, lifeless.The ambulance arrived eleven minutes after that and they tried to revive him with CPR.

Later, the news that nobody wanted to hear and that arrived seconds later to the whole world, the TV channels and radios transmitting almost in unison, the on-camera cries of their former colleagues in the different programs, and absolute chaos at a wake, which ended up in the Government House in Buenos Aires, with a crowd that was estimated at one million people, arriving from all parts of the country and in the middle of the quarantine, and with disputes between the Government that wanted to extend the hours and the family, which did not accept; and then about who is responsible for the police repression of those who made the immense line to say his last goodbye and could not enter, until, finally, when the sun was setting, they were able to remove the coffin from the side of the building, to take it to a private cemetery where he was buried in an intimate ceremony, near his beloved parents, perhaps seeking, finally, the peace that he didn’t have in life.