A few days ago, Diego Maradona celebrated his 60th birthday. However, the Argentine’s anniversary year is clouded by worries about his health. But now there is apparently good news.
The Argentine football legend Diego Maradona has had a brain hemorrhage operated on. “The Maradona operation is over and it was a success,” wrote his press spokesman Sebastián Sanchi on Instagram on Tuesday. “Everything went as planned. Diego is fine and he is now resting in his room.”
Maradona’s personal physician Leopoldo Luque had operated on the 1986 world champion in a clinic in Olivos north of Buenos Aires for a subdural hematoma. This is a bleeding between the hard meninges and the brain. Maradona was rushed to a hospital in La Plata on Monday. Initially, there was only talk of emotional stress, anemia and dehydration. The bleeding was discovered during the tests.
Years of fighting cocaine addiction
On his 60th birthday on Friday, Maradona had already made a battered impression. Before the first game of his club Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata after the Corona break, he came briefly to the stadium to receive congratulations and gifts. However, he had to be supported by two companions while walking. He followed the game from home on the advice of his doctor.
The once ingenious playmaker has been fighting his cocaine addiction for many years, and according to family doctor Luque, recently he often used alcohol to escape depression, which is why he also takes antidepressants and suffers from insomnia. To cope with the situation, he had recently started a fitness program and had already lost significant weight.
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