The children of football legend Diego Maradona have announced the launch of a foundation to honor the legacy of the Argentinian player, which will include a planned memorial site in the heart of Buenos Aires.
The M10 Memorial is expected to open in 2025 in the tourist area of Puerto Madero and will be able to welcome one million visitors a year, according to its official website. "We want our father to be close to the love of people and fulfill the wish of anyone who wants to bring him a flower," said his daughter Dalma Maradona during a presentation broadcast Thursday on YouTube.
Access to the 1,000 square meter area will be free for Argentines, but if they donate to the Maradona Foundation, they will be able to put their photo on a "heritage wall" in the memorial.
Dalma added that the foundation - chaired by her and Maradona's four children from other relationships - was born out of the desire to pay tribute to him (and) preserve his legacy. Earlier this month, a court authorized the transfer of Maradona's remains from a cemetery to a mausoleum for this future memorial site, so locals and tourists could visit "Argentina's great idol."
Maradona died in November 2020, aged 60, while recovering from brain surgery for a blood clot and after decades of battling cocaine and alcohol addiction.
He was found dead in his bed two weeks after he was stabbed in a rented house in an affluent neighborhood of Buenos Aires, where he had been taken after being released from the hospital.
It was revealed that he had died of a heart attack.
But a court is also investigating whether possible negligence by Maradona's medical team could have led to his death.
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