Boca Juniors released a video and said that you never left us, you are in the heart of every fan. Lionel Messi, the current Argentina national team captain, published a photo of himself wearing an Albiceleste shirt, with an image of Maradona on his chest. Messi later said in an interview given to the Spanish newspaper Marca, it seems like it was only yesterday and I have a strange feeling.
Maradona died in Buenos Aires from a blood clot on his brain. Several health practitioners are still facing charges of causing death due to alleged negligence in their treatment and care. Maradona’s elder daughter, Dalma, told her 1.7 million Instagram followers that it has been one year since Maradona passed away. The family of the 1986 World Cup winner gathered at a church in Garin, near Buenos Aires, to remember him on Thursday morning.
Father Adrian Guedes said during the ceremony, “We have not come to celebrate death, we have come to celebrate life, the life that Diego gave us.” Maradona’s youngest son, Diego Fernando, accompanied his mother, Veronica Ojeda, to his father’s grave in a cemetery along the Jardín de Bella Vista. There Ojeda told reporters that he had come so that little Diego could meet his father.
Argentine football fans gathered at several venues across the country to remember the former Boca Juniors, Barcelona and Napoli icon, including at La Bombonera Stadium, home of their beloved Boca. Officials said tributes were planned for this week’s matches in Primera División, the country’s top soccer league.
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