Argentinians paid their respects to Diego Maradona as they filed past his body in the country’s presidential palace yesterday.
Fans wept and blew kisses at the legendary footballer’s coffin, draped in the country’s flag and number 10 shirts from the national side and his Buenos Aires club Boca Juniors.
More than a million mourners were expected at the Casa Rosada palace in the capital.
Maradona’s family and former teammates had held a private wake earlier in the day.
The World Cup winner, 60, died from a heart attack at home in Tigre on Wednesday, two weeks after being discharged following brain surgery.
He is survived by five children and ex-wife Claudia Villafane, from whom he split in 2004.
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