No Place For Diego To Die

Cramped, bare room in rented house where Maradona spent his final days

- Gerard Couzens

This is the cramped makeshift bedroom Diego Maradona died in after he was unable to climb the stairs in his luxury house.

The soccer legend was supposed to sleep in an upstairs en suite bedroom at the rented property.

But the ground-floor playroom had to be converted, with a wardrobe dragged across a doorway for privacy, as he recovered from brain surgery.

Maradona, who died at 60 last Wednesday from heart failure, had been using a portable orthopaedic loo at the house on the gated estate of San Andres, north of Buenos Aires.