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ARCHIVE: Buenos Aires, Argentina – 25 November 2020
1. Fans carrying banner and portrait of Argentine soccer star Diego Maradona ++ MUTE++
2. Fans carrying banner and portrait of Maradona
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Isabel DeBre, The Associated Press:
"A homicide trial relating to the death of soccer legend Diego Maradona is now getting underway outside of Argentina’s capital of Buenos Aires. On trial are members of the medical team that was looking after Maradona in the weeks leading up to November 25th, 2020, when the soccer star, at the age of 60, died of cardiac arrest while recovering from brain surgery. Although Maradona was known to have struggled for many years with alcohol and drug addictions, as well as various health problems, the prosecution ultimately concluded that the doctors (that) were responsible for his care, were negligent, and said that his death could have been avoided. The seven that are standing trial include his neurosurgeon, his psychiatrist, psychologist, and nurses, and they all deny any wrongdoing, saying instead that Maradona was a difficult patient that did not allow himself to be treated. The trial is expected to last several months."
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4. Maradona walking on pitch and waving to crowd of Mexican second-tier football club Dorados de Sinaloa
5. Maradona punching the air with his fist, UPSOUND cheering
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ARCHIVE: Buenos Aires, Argentina – 21 July 1989
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6. Former Argentine President Carlos Menem and Maradona on pitch during charity soccer match
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7. STILL of Maradona celebrating with fans while holding FIFA World Cup trophy
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ARCHIVE: Buenos Aires, Argentina – 25 November 2020
8. Maradona fans cheering and chanting UPSOUND (Spanish): "Diego, do you know everything I feel? Diego of my life, you are the cheer in my heart."
9. Mid of fan with Maradona jersey and crowd chanting UPSOUND (Spanish) "Diego won’t leave us"
STORYLINE:
Seven members of the medical team that treated Argentine soccer great Diego Maradona before his death will go on trial for homicide starting Tuesday in Buenos Aires.
The case revolves around allegations that negligence by the health care professionals contributed to the World Cup winner’s death in 2020 at the age of 60, which triggered an outpouring of grief in his native Argentina and across the world.
Maradona suffered a heart attack at his rented house in Tigre, an affluent district north of Argentina’s capital Buenos Aires, where he had been recovering from surgery to remove a blood clot on his brain weeks earlier.
Widely perceived as one of the sport’s greatest players, Maradona famously led Argentina to victory in the 1986 World Cup and inspired his compatriots with a rags-to-riches story that vaulted him from poverty in the hardscrabble outskirts of Buenos Aires to international reverence.
Maradona had struggled with drug addiction, obesity and alcoholism for decades, and reportedly came close to death in 2000 and 2004.
But prosecutors concluded that — were it not for the negligence of his doctors — his death could have been avoided.
Seven of the eight medical professionals who have been charged in the case, including Maradona’s brain surgeon, psychiatrist and nurses, are now standing trial for culpable homicide, a crime roughly commensurate with involuntary manslaughter.
They deny wrongdoing but could face up to 25 years in prison.
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