Maradona's Children Reveal Plans for Memorial Site in Honor of Football Legend

The children of the late football legend Diego Maradona have announced the creation of the "M10 Foundation" to honor their father's legacy. The foundation will include a memorial site, known as the "M10 Memorial," that is set to be opened in 2025 in the heart of Buenos Aires, specifically in the tourist area of Puerto Madero. This memorial site is expected to welcome up to one million visitors annually, as stated on the foundation's official website. "We aim to keep our father's memory alive and provide a place for all those who wish to pay their respects to him, by bringing him a flower or simply showing their love for him," expressed Dalma Maradona, one of Diego Maradona's daughters, during a live presentation on YouTube.

Access to the 1,000-square-metre site will be free for Argentines, but if they make a donation to the Maradona Foundation, they will be able to put their photo on a "heritage wall" at the memorial. 

Dalma added that the foundation -- chaired by her and four of Maradona's children from other relationships -- arose from a desire to "pay tribute to him (and) preserve his legacy". 

Earlier this month, a court authorized the transfer of Maradona's remains from a cemetery to a mausoleum for this future memorial site so that locals and tourists could visit "Argentina's great idol". 

Maradona died in November 2020, aged 60, while recovering from brain surgery for a blood clot, and after decades of battling addictions to cocaine and alcohol. 

He was found dead in bed two weeks after going under the knife, in a rented house in an exclusive Buenos Aires neighborhood where he was brought after being discharged from the hospital. 

He was found to have died of a heart attack.

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But a court is also investigating whether possible negligence on the part of Maradona's medical team may have led to his death.

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