A little over a week after leaving the Olivos Clinic, where he underwent surgery for a bruise on his head and began treatment for a withdrawal condition, Diego Maradona evolves in his brand new house in the closed Villanueva neighborhood, in El Tigre. He is accompanied by a nurse 24 hours a day (he stays in a room on the property) – his nephew Johny Espósito also resides there – and his daughters Gianinna and Jana visit him daily. So do Dalma and Dieguito Fernando and their brothers and sisters; and during the day Maxi Pomargo (his right hand and brother-in-law of the lawyer Matías Morla) assists him.
His personal doctor is transferred periodically to his new home, rented and equipped to house him, Leopoldo Luque, and the psychologist who treats him. It is precisely expected that between tomorrow and the day after the neurosurgeon will approach to take a momentous step for the health of Pelusa, 60 years old: It will remove the points and, in this way, you will receive the final discharge of the box for which you were operated.
Would that imply that he is able to return to work? Not precisely. El Diez feels good and wants to return to his job as technical director of Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata. During his hospitalization and the days after, they were his assistants, Sebastián Méndez and Adrián González, those who carry out the task of driving to the campus. In three dates played in Zone 6, Lobo won one match (against Patronato), tied another (against Vélez) and lost the next (against Huracán). On Sunday he will visit the Patron in Paraná and the Gallego and the former side of San Lorenzo and Banfield will be back on the bench.
At the same time, as Luque himself pointed out before Diego could leave the medical center, “you have to discuss many variables and no one is going to be absolutely right. I think that No one should be taken away from work, especially if they are passionate about it. If you give it a life, a routine. It is my suggestion. Many people may have a different opinion. No, he is not pressured, he is relaxed, he cannot be pressured … Diego is under pressure the least is on a pitch. That is my impression ”.
Consequently, it seems logical that the next step for Maradona’s inner circle is to evaluate how and when you can return to work, in his passion, soccer, to give him that order, a routine. To get to that instance, First, the entire “medical committee” must agree, which is neither more nor less than the interdisciplinary team that treats you. And then, for the approval of his family, who today have the power to make decisions..
Perhaps the parties, with the intervention of DT himself, of course, reach a consensus of a gradual return, of a few days a week, beyond the match day, and avoiding travel, of course.
At that point, there will be a sensitive item up for discussion: If you return to action in Gimnasia in a few weeks, and continue to live in El Tigre, you will have a transfer of an hour and a half one way and another hour and a half back each time you go to Estancia Chica, the training ground of Tripero. For that reason, precisely, he had moved to Brandsen from Bella Vista in early 2020; to shorten travel times. But in Campos de Roca, due to the distance, the jealous supervision that his daughters are starring in today would be more difficult. And that is giving good results. These are details to be resolved by his family environment, who knows that, sooner or later, Maradona wants to perceive the “perfume of the grass” again, a phrase that the star himself patented.
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