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Football legend Maradona dies after suffering cardiac arrest

A man cries under a mural depicting soccer legend Diego Maradona, in Naples, Italy, Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2020.

A man cries under a mural depicting soccer legend Diego Maradona, in Naples, Italy, Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2020. Source: AAP Image/AP Photo/Salvatore Laporta

Diego Armando Maradona has died in his house in Buenos Aires less than a month after his brain operation.


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By Carlo Oreglia, Magica Fossati

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Diego Armando Maradona has died in his house in Buenos Aires less than a month after his brain operation.


Journalist Andrea Eusebio tells SBS Italian the circumstances surrounding Maradona's death. 

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