Football legend Diego Maradona’s former healthcare team has been brought to trial in Argentina for alleged homicide by negligence, facing up to 25 years in prison following his death at age 60 in 2020.

Argentina began a long-awaited trial on Tuesday of the medical team for soccer star Diego Maradona, who died in 2020, in a case that has riled emotions in the South American country where the World Cup winner is still revered.

Diego Maradona's death is to come under scrutiny in a trial in Buenos Aires as seven people stand accused of having a role in the football legend's passing in 2020, aged 60

Seven Argentines went on trial Tuesday accused of homicide for their alleged role in what prosecutors called the ‘horror theater’ of football legend Diego Maradona's death four years ago.

A fan of late soccer star Diego Maradona holds his image outside the court where members of the medical team that treated Maradona go on trial for alleged homicide by negligence in San Isidro on the outskirts of Buenos Aires,

Diego Maradona died aged 60 after a heart attack in 2020, while recovering from surgery to remove a blood clot on his brain weeks earlier

Buenos Aires: Four years after the death of football legend Diego Maradona, seven healthcare professionals have gone on trial, facing charges of negligence leading to his demise at 60.

BUENOS AIRES (AP) — An Argentine court started on Tuesday its trial of seven healthcare professionals accused of negligence in the death of soccer great Diego Maradona, at age 60. Maradona was under the care of those professionals when he had a cardiac arrest in a house outside Buenos Aires on Nov. 25, 2020.

The defendants say Maradona had refused further treatment and should have stayed in hospital for longer after his operation. They risk prison terms between eight and 25 years if c

An Argentine court started on Tuesday its trial of seven healthcare professionals accused of negligence in the death of soccer great Diego Maradona, at age 60.