Reports in Argentina said football legend Diego Maradona suffered a cardiac arrest yesterday and has died at the age of 60.
Argentine newspapers Clarin and Ole claim the World Cup winner suffered a cardiorespiratory arrest on Wednesday morning local time in the town of Tigre.
Later, news agency AFP was among a host of outlets to tweet that the legend had died.
Maradona, who won Argentina’s second World Cup in 1986 almost single-handedly, only recently had surgery to remove a blood clot from his brain, following a fall.
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