Eight healthcare professionals to stand trial in Diego Maradona’s death

A medical board’s report previously given to prosecutors concluded that Maradona could still be alive if he had been properly hospitalized.

TRIAL SET: A shrine in memory of Diego Maradona in the Spanish Quarter of Naples, Italy. England start their Euro 2024 qualifying campaign against Italy in Naples this evening. Picture date: Wednesday March 22, 2023. PA Photo. Photo credit should read: Adam Davy/PA Wire.

Eight healthcare professionals will stand trial over the death of football great Diego Maradona in 2020, an Argentinian court has ruled.

The date of the proceedings has yet to be set, but they are unlikely to begin before next year, the court said Tuesday.