A cardiorespiratory arrest would have caused his death this morning, in the region of Tigre, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Cristian Carlos. Peninsula 360 Press [P360P].
The former Argentine attacking midfielder and coach was scheduled to undergo surgery for head injuries on 3 November. It had also been announced that the former soccer player would undergo therapy to treat his alcohol addiction, according to media reports in Argentina.
Diego Armando Maradona was responsible for winning the 1986 World Cup in Mexico for Argentina's representation.
Abroad, he played in European football clubs such as Futbol Club Barcelona and S.S.C. Napoli, which gave him two Serie A titles with the Italian club. During his career, he scored 34 goals in 91 games playing with Argentina's soccer team in four World Cups.
He represented Argentina in the final of the 1990 World Cup in Italy, which he would have lost to his West German counterpart. Unfortunately, Maradona was unable to overcome his cocaine addiction and was sent off for 15 months after testing positive for doping in 1991. As a result, he was permanently suspended from the Argentine national football team in 1994 on 25 June when he failed a doping test.
He retired from professional football in 1997, on his 37th birthday. Maradona was then appointed head coach of the national team in 2008 and left after the 2010 World Cup, when his team was defeated by Germany in the quarterfinals.
He later coached teams in the United Arab Emirates and Mexico and was in charge of the top flight of Argentine soccer at the time of his death.
