Diego Maradona’s entourage and medical team had a plan for the Argentine football star but things “went out of control” in the lead-up to his death, his daughter Gianinna said in an interview this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maradona, regarded as one of the greatest football players of all time, died in November 2020 at the age of 60 of heart failure and acute pulmonary edema \u2014 a condition where fluid accumulates in the lungs \u2014 while recovering at home from surgery for a brain clot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“There was definitely a plan and someone was in charge of it, but things got out of their control,” Gianinna, 36, told news outlets, including AFP<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She spoke on the sidelines of the trial in San Isidro of seven medical workers \u2014 including a neurosurgeon, a psychiatrist and a nurse \u2014 whom prosecutors accuse of gross negligence over Maradona\u2019s death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The seven deny responsibility and say the star of the 1986 World Cup died of natural causes. They face prison terms of between eight and 25 years if convicted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gianinna blamed Maradona\u2019s former lawyer and representative Matias Morla and his former assistant Maximiliano Pomargo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The pair are not among the accused in the negligence case, but will stand trial for alleged fraudulent management of Maradona\u2019s brands. The trial date has yet to be announced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “I can\u2019t quite bring myself to think through this plan, that they wanted to kill him. Did Morla want to have my father\u2019s life in his hands? Surely,” Gianinna said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Diego Maradona’s entourage and medical team had a plan for the Argentine football star but things “went out of control” in the lead-up to his death, his daughter Gianinna said in an interview this week. Maradona, regarded as one of the greatest football players of all time, died in November 2020 at the age of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-sports","category-world"],"yoast_head":"\n