Diego Maradona: Huge crowds pass coffin of Argentina football legend in Buenos Aires

As a crowd of weeping fans gathered outside, Maradona’s coffin was lifted out of an ambulance (top left) and brought into the palace in Buenos Aires where it will lie in state in a three-day spectacle of national mourning. Others gathered outside the Buenos Aires stadium where Maradona began his career and which has since been renamed in his honour, setting up a makeshift shrine to celebrate Argentina’s legendary number 10 (grieving fans are pictured above). His death has also been keenly felt in Europe, es
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