Video PlayerClose By Michael Place BUENOS AIRES, Nov. 25 (Xinhua) — The news should not have come as a shock. Diego Maradona’s death had seemed to be an imminent event for weeks, and arguably much longer. Decades of drug and alcohol abuse had reduced the Argentine football legend to a shadow of the man that seemed indestructible during his 1980s pomp. The precarious state of Maradona’s health escalated earlier this month when doctors in Buenos Aires performed emergency surgery to remove a blood clot on his brain. Argentina held its collective breath for the country’s biggest sporting idol. He was discharged from the Olivos clinic a week later; out of hospital but not the proverbial woods. Even with this in mind, the late-morning telephone call from a colleague jolted me. “Maradona is dead,” he said, as I felt the blood drain from my face and a cold shiver run down my spine. I was oblivious to much of the ensuing conversation as sepia-tinted memories of a childhood idol flashed through my mind. Not of the stammering, sickly figure of recent years, but of the unstoppable No. 10 that scored those two iconic goals against England at the 1986 World Cup;… Read full this story
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