Diego Maradona has died from a cardiac arrest less than a month after undergoing surgery to remove a blood clot on his brain.
He was just 60. The football legend was believed to have been on the road to recovery following the operation on October 30, but died at his home in Tigre, Argentina.
Hailed as one of the greatest talents of his generation, the sports star's life was as controversial and it was celebrated. For 20 years he was held captive by a destructive addiction to cocaine that saw him banned twice from the sport he loved.
Maradona once told how he started using the Class A drug in Europe in 1982 when he was just 22. "It was enough for me to feel alive.
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