Tag: Diego Maradona

Buenos Aires: Argentine football legend Diego Maradona was released from hospital on Saturday after being admitted with internal bleeding in his stomach, his daughter said. The 58-year-old was having a routine medical check-up in his home country when doctors detected the problem, the BBC reported. However, his family said the diagnosis was not serious. Maradona’s […]

Buenos Aires: Argentine football legend Diego Maradona suffers from severe osteoarthritis and needs to undergo knee surgery, one of his physicians has said. “We treated him before the World Cup so he could get through his activities in Russia in the best way,” Maradona’s doctor German Ochoa told Todo Noticias television on Friday, referring to […]

Kolkata: In what is turning out to be a long drawn saga now, Argentine football legend Diego Maradona’s visit to Kolkata was on Thursday postponed for a fourth time due to security issues, organisers said. Maradona, who was supposed to be in the city on October 8 to play the ‘Match for Unity’ against former […]

Kolkata: Argentine football legend Diego Maradona’s “Match for Unity”, featuring former India cricket captain Sourav Ganguly, has been postponed from October 2 to October 5, organisers of the event said in a statement. “A decision to this effect has been reached with the relevant authorities. The match was shifted because of the huge bandobast needed […]

Kolkata: Come September, Colombia soccer legend Carlos Valderrama may be seen in action with Argentine great Diego Maradona in Kolkata to kick-off a football carnival less than a month before the FIFA U-17 World Cup. Having already confirmed Maradona’s visit to the city on September 19-20, the organisers on Friday said they were now trying […]

London: Football legend Diego Maradona has died after suffering from a heart attack, his attorney said on Wednesday. Iconic footballer Diego Maradona led Argentina to victory in the 1986 World Cup, died after suffering a cardiac arrest on Wednesday. He was 60. The soccer icon had gone an emergency surgery earlier this month to remove […]