Diego Maradona’s last words before he died were: “I don’t feel well.”
The football legend died on Thursday (AEDT) from a heart attack, two weeks after he underwent surgery on a brain bleed.
It can now be revealed Maradona, 60, ate breakfast before telling nephew Johnny Esposito he didn’t feel well and was going to lie down again
A nurse who was looking after Maradona, following his release from hospital after his brain scan operation, phoned for an ambulance and several responded.
But it was already too late and the retired footballer was dead by the time help arrived.
The last hours of the former Napoli and Barcelona star’s short life were played out in Argentine media as an autopsy expected to show he had died from a massive heart attack.
One described how he had awoken in the morning looking pale and complaining of feeling cold.
He went back to bed after a quick breakfast where he is said to have pronounced his last words: ‘Me siento mal’ - English for ‘I don’t feel well’.
Emergency responders made an unsuccessful attempt to revive him after they arrived at the rented house in the gated community he had moved to after leaving hospital on November 11.
State prosecutors, who have launched a routine inquiry into Maradona’s death, said it had occurred around midday local time.
Prosecution chief John Broyad, speaking outside San Andres as the retired footballer’s body was taken to a nearby morgue for an autopsy, said: “Diego Armando Maradona died around 12pm local time.
“The forensic police began their work at 4pm. No signs of any criminality or violence have been detected.
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