The 2020 death of the iconic football great shook Argentina and fans around the world.
Published On 29 May 2025
The homicide case against Diego Maradona’s medical team has been declared a mistrial, lawyers for the defendants said, in a case that transfixed Argentina following the football great and national hero’s 2020 death.
The date for the new trial was not initially announced on Thursday and new judges were not yet nominated. The decision came after one of three judges in the case, Judge Julieta Makintach, resigned on Tuesday in the face of allegations of an ethical breach.
Maradona, who almost single-handedly led the Argentine team to World Cup victory in 1986 in Mexico, died from heart failure while he was recovering from surgery for a haematoma that formed between his skull and brain. He was 60.
His death shook the nation, and he was mourned across the world, acutely in Italy’s Naples, where he had elevated the southern city’s scorned team Napoli in the mid- to late 1980s to huge success with domestic and European glory.
Lauded as one of the greatest and most iconic players to ever grace a football pitch, Maradona struggled with drug addiction for many years and with conne