Maradona offers reward over ‘death’ report

By Daily Sports on June 29, 2018

Diego Maradona has offered a $10,000 reward to identify the source of reports he had died after Argentina’s World Cup match against Nigeria, his lawyer said Thursday.

Maradona found himself on the receiving end of much attention following his animated response to Argentina’s narrow victory over Nigeria that saw them escape their group last Thursday.

Reports that Maradona had died in the game’s aftermath went into circulation — something that elicited an angry response from the legendary footballer.

The reports, circulated via WhatsApp voice messages from a man with an Argentine accent, said the 57-year-old star had been hospitalised and had died of cardiac arrest.

“I gave instructions to make public the decision to offer a reward of 300,000 pesos (around $10,000) to anyone who can provide true and accurate information about the author of the audios,” lawyer Matias Morla told Argentina’s Clarin daily from Russia.

The Argentine star took ill at the end of the match and had to be helped from his seat.

But he denied rumors of ill health the day after, telling reporters: “I’m perfect. I’ve never been better.”

Morla said Maradona had suffered “a spike” in blood pressure.

“It’s a subject that at one time alarmed him. It’s no secret how he lives through a game. How he lived them as a player is how he lives them as a fan.”

According to Morla, Maradona shouldn’t even have been at the stadium for the second half of the game, in which a late goal secured Argentina’s World Cup.

“The doctors told him to rest, not to stay for the second half of the Argentina-Nigeria match, but asking that of Maradona is like asking a son not to love his mother.

“For Diego, the team is Dona Tota (his mother), and he will never let her on her own.”

The audio messages spread on social media after the match.

“Maradona’s sisters heard the news, they could not communicate with me nor with their brother, and one of them suffered a weakness, and the truth is that we cannot let such an outrage go by,” Morla told Clarin. (AP)

Photo shows Maradona making an obscene gesture while celebrating Argentina's goal against Nigeria

Source Daily Sports

Posted June 29, 2018


 

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