Argentina will begin a trial this week into the medical team of late soccer icon Diego Maradona over homicide by negligence, a case that has charged up emotions in the country where the World Cup winner still commands almost God-like reverence.

Diego Maradona died aged 60 after a heart attack in 2020, while recovering from surgery to remove a blood clot on his brain weeks earlier

The trial for the death of Diego Armando Maradona has begun in Buenos Aires, four years after his passing. Eight people are accused, and seven will be on trial for the crimes of homicide