BUENOS AIRES – Argentine footballer Diego Maradona will be hospitalized for several days after suffering an unexplained “abstinence” that followed his brain operation this week, he said thursday.
“We all know Diego,” physician Leopoldo Luque told the clinic’s outdoor journalists where, three days ago, Maradona was operated on by a subdural hematoma, a blood clot in the brain.
‘In the postoperative phase, there have been episodes of confusion that we’ve had with abstinence. ‘
Abstinence from what Luque still Maradona, the former bungalowr from Barcelona, Napoli and Boca Juniors, has already fought against alcohol and drug addiction.
“The concept is to treat it for abstinence,” Luque added. ” We think it’s the right thing to do, we think it’s better for Diego. “
His comments came hours after he told reporters that Maradona, the 60-year-old coach of Gymnastics and Fencing, was well enough to tell doctors he would be fired.
Maradona, who won the World Cup with Argentina in 1986 and is considered one of the most important players of all time, has spent common periods in the hospital over the years, due to his extravagant lifestyle.
He nearly died in 2000 from the failure of the cocaine-induced center and underwent years of rehabilitation, largely in Cuba, where he befriended former President Fidel Castro.
Maradona underwent gastric bypass surgery in 2005 to lose weight and was hospitalized two years later for life-threatening alcoholic hepatitis.
He also fell ill at the 2018 World Cup in Russia, where the Argentina-Nigeria party was filmed fainting in an executive box.
(Reporting through Ramiro Scandolo in Buenos Aires, written through Andrew Downie, edited through Matthew Lewis and Ed Osmond)
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