BUENOS AIRES.- Argentine football remembered this Monday Diego Maradona four years after his death and the star’s family asked for justice for his alleged involuntary homicide for which eight health professionals will go to trial.
“Four years after your departure, you are more present than ever, Diego… How much we miss you here!”, published the X account of the Argentine soccer team, with which Maradona was world champion in Mexico 1986 and which He recently won the title again in Qatar 2022 with Lionel Messi.
Dozens of clubs paid tribute to the ten, who died on November 25, 2020, among which the team of which Maradona was a fan and where he retired stood out, the popular Boca Juniorswho published on their networks a photo of their La Bombonera stadium in the dark, illuminating only the box where the soccer star went.
Eternal, wrote Messi
Messi joined the tributes on his Instagram account: “Eternal,” he wrote over a photo of the former soccer player holding the world championship trophy obtained in 1986.
Also the humble Argentinos Juniors – where he began his professional career and whose stadium is named after the star – published an emotional video compiling goals from a young Maradona.
Two of his daughters, Dalma and Giannina Maradona, remembered their father on social networks and asked for “justice” for the death of the idol, which is being investigated in the Argentine courts and which has eight defendants charged with “homicide with possible intent” (involuntary). .
“You didn’t die, they killed you,” Giannina Maradona wrote this Monday in X.
The eight defendants are health professionals who were in charge of caring for the former soccer player while he was under home confinement in a home on the northern outskirts, where he died while convalescing after head surgery.
One of the accused, nurse Gisella Madrid, faces a jury trial, requested by her defense, which began with a preliminary hearing in October, while an oral trial will begin for the other seven defendants on March 11, 2025.
A permanent mark
Furthermore, in October Maradona’s children launched a foundation with his name to honor the star’s legacy and announced the construction of a 1,000-square-meter mausoleum where his remains will rest, which will be located in the center of Buenos Aires and will be inaugurated in 2025. with the name “M10 Memorial”.
