Diego Maradona undergoes brain surgery for blood clot

[ASFN Admin]

Argentine football great Diego Maradona underwent successful brain surgery on a blood clot on Tuesday night, his doctor said. "We managed to successfully remove the clot. Diego coped well with the surgery," Leopoldo Luque said at the icon's private clinic in the capital Buenos Aires. "It's under control, there's a little drainage (of blood). He'll remain under observation." Maradona, 60, had gone to hospital in La Plate - where he is the coach at Gimnasia y Esgrima - on Monday after falling ill. According to local media reports Maradona, who won the World Cup with Argentina in 1986 and is widely considered to be one of the greatest players of all time, had been feeling poorly for some time.

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