Argentine football legend Diego Maradona is furious after a rumour claiming he was dead began doing the rounds immediately after Argentine beat Nigeria in a thriller on Tuesday
Diego Maradona
According to reports, two recordings in Spanish went viral with one claiming that an adrenaline injection pumped into Maradona's heart had failed to save him. Another video claimed that the news of Maradona's death would only be announced the next day. It is learnt that Maradona had to call up his partner Rocio Oliva, while returning to Moscow in the early hours of Wednesday, to confirm that he was alive and that there the heart attack story was false.
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