The court has ordered a culpable homicide trial after a medical panel found Maradona's treatment was rife with "deficiencies and irregularities". The Argentine legend died at the age of 60 in November 2020 due to a heart attack in Buenos Aires. He had undergone a brain surgery earlier that month on brain blood clot and was recovering at his home on the fateful day. An investigation into his death was launched a few days after by Argentine prosecutors. Last year, the panel of 20 experts appointed to examine his death found Maradona's medical team acted in an "inappropriate, deficient and reckless manner".

The panel also further concluded that Maradona would have had a better chance of survival with adequate treatment in an appropriate medical facility. Maradona's neurosurgeon and personal doctor Leopoldo Luque is among those facing charges, a psychiatrist and psychologist, two doctors, two nurses, and their boss. They will be tried on a homicide case on the basis of negligence committed in the knowledge that it may lead to an individual's death. If found guilty, the crime holds a sentence of up to 8 to 25 years in prison according to the laws of the land in Argentina. 
 

Diego Maradona is largely considered to be one of the greatest footballers to ever grace the football pitch. He was the team captain of Argentina when they won the 1986 World Cup scoring the famous 'Hand of God' against England in the tournament's quarter-finals. He, however, struggled with cocaine addictions during the second half of his career and was banned for 1 year and 3 months after he tested positive for the drug in 1991. The football world and his home country of Argentina were thrown into mourning on the news of his demise. A multitude of people turned up at the presidential palace in Buenos Aires and queued up to walk by his coffin.