Diego Maradona recorded a heartbreaking message about his ‘angel’ youngest son hours before his death, it has emerged.
The football star asked the stepfather of his son to take good care of the seven-year-old.
Maradona shared son Dieguito Fernando with his former long-term girlfriend, Veronica Ojeda.
Diego Maradona recorded a heartbreaking message about his ‘angel’ youngest son hours before his death, it has emerged.
Maradona shared son Dieguito Fernando with his former long-term girlfriend, Veronica Ojeda, pictured together in 2010
Maradona’s final photo with his seven-year-old son Dieguito Fernando, whose mother is his former long-term girlfriend Veronica Ojeda
In the recording, he told Mario Baudry, the boyfriend of his son’s mother: ‘Look after her and look after my angel, who is incomparable.’
Veronica attended the retired footballer’s funeral alongside Dieguito last Thursday.
Maradona is survived by five children, including his daughters Dalma, 33, and Giannina, 31, by his first and only wife Claudia Villafane, 58, to whom he was married from 1984 to 2004.
He had his youngest son Diego Fernando with his long-term girlfriend Veronica Ojeda in 2013, while he only acknowledged Diego Junior, 34, and daughter Jana, 23, in the last five years, both born after short flings.
Maradona is survived by five children, including his daughters Dalma, 33, and Giannina, 31, by his first and only wife Claudia Villafane, 58, to whom he was married from 1984 to 2004, pictured together above in 1992
Maradona died of a heart attack aged 60 last Wednesday just two weeks after being discharged from hospital for a bleed on his brain.
The football legend died of ‘acute lung edema and chronic heart failure’, according to a preliminary autopsy report, in his sleep at noon while resting at his home in Tigre, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Diego Maradona‘s doctor is being probed over medical negligence and police are treating the footballer’s death as a possible culpable homicide.
Police raided the home of the personal physician Leopoldo Luque on Sunday and investigators are looking into all the medical staff involved with his care.
Luque was at his home while the search on the outskirts of Buenos Aires took place, while Argentinian TV stations have been broadcasting live images of police entering his clinic.
The searches were ordered after Maradona’s daughters Dalma and Giannina gave statements and questioned whether the medication their father was receiving was appropriate.
Maradona’s death came just three weeks after he underwent surgery on a blood clot in his brain (pictured), and less than a month after he turned 60
Argentinian media are reporting Luque could be questioned as an ‘imputado’, someone who is under official investigation on suspicion of possible mala praxis or negligence.
Diego Maradona fell and hit his head a week before his death and was left alone for three days after the accident, it has been claimed.
According to local reports, Maradona bumped his head after he fell inside his house. However he was reportedly not taken to hospital or given an MRI scan.
A lawyer for Gisela Madrid, Maradona’s nurse, was quoted by Argentine media as saying: ‘Maradona fell on the Wednesday of the week before his death.
‘He fell and hit his head, but they didn’t take him to the hospital for an MRI or CT scan …’
