Football legend, Diego Maradona, has died at the age of 60, on Wednesday.
The Argentina football legend and the national team’s former manager, Maradona, was known to be one of the greatest footballers of all time.
After the death of the great footballer, the Argentine president declared three days of national mourning.
Before the death of the 1986 World Cup winner he was admitted in the hospital in Buenos Aires after surgery, to remove a blood clot on the brain earlier this month.
Meanwhile, sources have disclosed that he was being treated for alcohol dependency.
The AFA said on Twitter: “The Argentine Football Association, through its president Claudio Tapia, expresses its deepest sorrow for the death of our legend, Diego Armando Maradona. You will always be in our hearts.”
On his history, Maradona was blighted by controversies on and off the field but his successes made him a global star and a national hero in Argentina.
