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Diego Maradona‘s attorney and agent Matias Morla is seeking an investigation into the amount of time it took an ambulance to reach the soccer legend’s Nation Club San Andres do Wednesday, per Adriana Garcia of ESPN.
Maradona died Wednesday of a coronary heart attack on the age of 60. Morla, citing a anecdote from the San Isidro district attorney’s place of work, wrote in an announcement posted on social media that it took ambulances over 30 minutes to diagram.
“This reality can no longer be overpassed and I’m going to position a take a look at to for an investigation to sight into it until the discontinuance,” Morla added. “As Diego would deliver, you are my soldier, act with pity.”
The legendary Argentine, who received the World Cup in 1986 and two Serie A titles with Napoli amongst his many profession achievements, used to be hospitalized in early November after requiring surgical treatment to grab away a subdural hematoma in his brain. Per ESPN, he used to be on the origin admitted to La Plata’s Ipensa Hospital “with indicators of anemia, dehydration and depression.”
A enormous crowd honored Maradona on Wednesday on the presidential palace in Buenos Aires with a public wake.
“In the present day time is a day of profound ache, sadness and reflection,” Morla wrote. “I feel in my coronary heart the departure of a respectable friend, who I honoured with my loyalty and my accompaniment until his closing days.”
No longer surprisingly, tributes to Maradona—who additionally performed for Barcelona and Boca Juniors, amongst completely different clubs—came pouring in from all around the football world:
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Marcelo Bielsa on the “idol”, Maradona.
“The whole lot he did as a footballer had a magnificence which would perchance no longer be matched.”
On his 2d aim in ’86: “It used to be a work of paintings.”
On carrying Argentina/Napoli: “Gamers with such peculiar brilliance do not know what it is to play with tension.”
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Jorginho:
“Diego Maradona used to be a hero for all of us who admire football.
“What he did on the pitch used to be staunch good.
“It is something that no person can ever put out of your mind as a result of he made the history of football.
“He made us dream.
“Thank you Diego. Rest in peace.”
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The mayor of Naples has additionally moved to rename the city’s San Paolo stadium in honor of Maradona.
“We’re already striking it together this morning, taking the first steps to commit Naples’ stadium to Maradona,” Luigi De Magistris instructed journalists. “Or no longer it is a course of nonetheless this might be a temporary course of, as a result of when there is such an spectacular need there is nothing that might preserve us up.”
