Maradona’s last public appearance, on his 60th birthday

Maradona’s last public appearance, on his 60th birthday

The controversy occurred during the meeting between Tinelli and Maradona, who They couldn’t stand the emotion and decided to hug each other, something strictly prohibited by the protocol established in those days to prevent Covid-19. After this situation, nothing similar was seen and the game started normally.

In addition, on a table, there was a cake with the colors and the Gimnasia crest, which decorated and set the “Juan Carmelo Zerillo” stadium for the occasion, and another with images of Diego as a soccer player for the Argentine National Team, while he was also in the place the president of Gymnastics, Gabriel Pellegrino, who gave Maradona a club shirt for his 60 years of life.

After all the tributes, Maradona suffered too great an emotion and had to withdraw escorted from the stadium as a precaution, because he was a patient at risk of coronavirus. It should be remembered that “El Diego” lived through some very difficult days, in which he found himself totally isolated at home after one of his custodians showed symptoms of coronavirus, although its results are not yet known.

That was the last time Maradona was seen. He did not look good, but he attended for the love of the public and for a commercial commitment that his environment had made with an oil company. Nobody knew that the affection that world football gave him that October 30 was an embrace to the final soul.

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