Diego Maradona’s last words before he suffered a heart attack that killed him at the age of 60, on Wednesday, has been revealed.
According to reports, Diego Maradona who was hospitalised a few weeks ago after suffering a blood clot on his brain and requiring a surgery, had told his nephew he felt unwell. This was on Wednesday and on the morning on his fatal heart attack.
Diego Maradona’s words to his nephew was: ‘I don’t feel well’, just hours before his fatal heart attack.
The Argentine World Cup winner passed away at his home in Buenos Aires on Wednesday just two weeks after he was released from hospital.
Argentine television network TN reports that Maradona arrived for breakfast with his nephew, Johnny Esposito, looking pale and feeling cold at around 10am. After eating, Maradona was checked over by a doctor before he returned to bed having complained to Esposito that he was feeling unwell.
By midday, emergency medical staff were called to Maradona’s home but by then the 60-year-old was already suffering from a cardiac arrest. Medical staff attempted to resuscitate Maradona but were unsuccessful.
After undergoing surgery on his brain clot earlier this month, Maradona was taken to a recovery clinic where he was treated for alcohol dependency. According to Clarin, the Argentine newspaper who first broke the news of Maradona’s death, the former Boca Juniors, Napoli and Barcelona player was invited by Fidel Castro’s son, Tony, to recovery in privacy in Cuba following his surgery.
Before being hospitalised this month, Maradona was admitted to a private clinic in La Plata with signs of depression.
Argentina’s president, Alberto Fernandez, has declared three days of national mourning. ‘You took us to the top of the world. You made us immensely happy. You were the greatest of them all,’ he said. ‘Thank you for having existed, Diego. We’re going to miss you all our lives.’