‘Maradona began to die 12 hours before his actual death,’ a prosecutor in new trial on the Argentinian’s death says.By AFP and The Associated PressPublished On 15 Apr 202615 Apr 2026The medical team for the football legend Diego Maradona was a “bunch of amateurs” who missed a chance to save his life, prosecutors in Argentina say at the start of a new trial over his death.The trial of seven healthcare professionals accused of negligence in Maradona’s death resumed on Tuesday, nearly a year after the original proceedings collapsed when a presiding judge stepped down after appearing in a documentary about the case.Maradona, considered one of the world’s greatest football players, died in November 2020 at the age of 60 while recovering from surgery for a brain clot. His medical team is accused of gross negligence causing his death during his home convalescence. Maradona’s former doctor Leopoldo Luque at a courthouse for a preliminary hearing in a trial over the footballer’s death in San Isidro on the outskirts of Buenos Aires [Tomas Cuesta/AFP]The first trial was sensationally annulled after two and a half months of hearings after revelations that one of the judges took part in a clandestine documentary about the case.Prosecutor Patricio Ferrari rounded on the accused at the start of the new trial.He said Maradona was cared for by a “bunch of amateurs” who committed “all kinds of omissions”, resulting in conditions he described as “cruel”.“Diego Maradona began to die 12 hours before his actual death. Anyone who thought to transfer him to a clinic in a car or ambulance during his last week would have saved his life,” Ferrari added.Maradona died of heart failure and acute pulmonary edema, a condition in which fluid accumulates in the lungs, two weeks …
