Hugo Maradona, Diego’s brother, died at age of 52

The Cadet of the Argentinian Genius of Football has succumbed to an infarction in his house of the Neapolitan agglomeration, according to Italian media.

Le Monde with AFP

The younger brother of Diego Maradona, Hugo, died, Tuesday, December 28, in Naples, announced the Napolitan football club on his website. “Hugo Maradona died”, a little over a year after the disappearance of the Argentine football genius, soberly written the Napoli in a communiqué .

The President of the Club, Aurelio de Laurentiis, and the team “gather around the Maradona family and unite with her in the pain caused by the disappearance of Hugo,” adds the text.

The club thus confirms information from the Italian media according to which the cadet of the Maradona siblings would have succumbed to an infarction. This father of three children residing in Miami (Florida) was declared dead on the arrival of the relief at his home of Monte di Procida, in the Neapolitan agglomeration.

Former footballer, coach and election candidate Municipal

Former football player, he had evolved in Italy, Austria, Spain, Argentina and Japan, before returning to Italy to settle it definitely and kiss a brief coaching career in amateur clubs Napolitans. He had, moreover, recently presented on a list on the right to the municipal elections, finally won by the left.

In 1987, he was barely major when he had arrived in the great port city of the South, recruited by the Napoli, before being loaned to Ascoli. On September 20 of the same year, the two brothers had confronted during a match winning 2-1 by the Napoli, recalled the daily he corrrage del mezzogiorno.

/Media reports.