The Argentine justice system makes no exceptions for popular heroes regarding the pace at which it moves. Five and a half years after Diego Armando Maradona’s death, Argentines know that his heart was monstrously large when it stopped beating, weighing 503 grams, almost twice that of an ordinary human. They know that the footballer died of lung edema resulting from acute heart failure. They know that three weeks earlier he had been operated on for a chronic subdural hematoma. They know that he was later transferred to a house to continue his recovery and never left. But there is still one question to be answered: whether his death on November 25, 2020, could have been avoided.

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It all began on the shores of the English Channel. John Gillard remembers himself at just 11 years old, walking along the path that led away from the sea, through a sea of ​​blue and white shirts, scarves, and flags, to the austere and venerable Goldstone Ground, in the heart of the town of Hove. In that century-old stadium, demolished in 1997 and now replaced by a shopping center, Brighton & Hove Albion, the legendary Seagulls, the pride of Sussex, the team of Gary Stevens and Gordon Smith, played their matches.

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An Argentine court on Tuesday ordered the case to proceed to trial against Diego Armando Maradona’s last lawyer and legal representative, Matías Morla, as well as his sisters Rita Mabel and Claudia Norma Maradona, who are accused of defrauding the sports icon’s legitimate heirs in the exploitation of his commercial trademarks. More than five years after the star’s death, the National Criminal and Correctional Court No. 43 rejected a request to dismiss the charges and declared the investigative phase closed.

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