2024-02-28 19:51:18
By: TeleSurtv.net
Diego Armando Maradona’s father, Don Diego, died this Thursday at the Hospital de los Arcos in Palermo (north of Buenos Aires, Argentina), at the age of 87 after being hospitalized for more than a month, according to Argentine media.
From the beginning, Don Diego’s chances of recovery were almost zero due to his advanced age and the coronary and respiratory complications he had. In addition, he had already been hospitalized three times during 2015.
Soccer star Maradona traveled from Dubai to Argentina in early June to see his father and hoped to see him better so he could take him home. «I asked ‘Tota’ (for her deceased mother) to wait for me to give her a kiss and I didn’t arrive. With my old man I had the satisfaction of even talking, but I kissed his hand, his feet, his forehead and everything I thought about on this trip,” Maradona declared upon returning from Dubai.
On November 19, 2011, Maradona lost his mother, Dalma Salvadora Franco, known as Doña Tota, at the age of 81, after suffering from a heart condition.