Argentina football legend Diego Maradona has died at the age of 60 after suffering a cardiac arrest on Wednesday, according to reports from Argentina, less than two weeks after he was released from hospital in Buenos Aires.
The 1986 World Cup winner and current coach of La Plata side Gimnasia, who turned 60 at the end of October, has passed away.
It was reported earlier this evening on Argentine television that he was in critical condition.
The Argentina national team has paid tribute to him, saying: “You will #Eterno in every heart of the soccer planet”.
Argentina’s La Nacion newspaper reported that he died at lunchtime at his home in San Andrés. The paper reports that he suffered a cardiac arrest and that nine ambulances attended the scene but that he could not be resuscitated.
The former Argentine captain and coach underwent brain surgery for a blood clot in Buenos Aires earlier this month, his doctor said.
Maradona played for the likes of Napoli, Barcelona and Boca Juniors before hanging up his boots in 1997.
