Diego Maradona was buried without his heart

Diego Maradona was pronounced dead at the age of 60 on November 25, 2020, yet in the months since his death there has been nothing but controversy, with the latest development uncovering a conspiracy regarding his burial.

The cause of Maradona's death hasn't yet been made clear, and there have been criminal investigations brought against the doctor involved in treating the former Napoli star.

However, in recent days excerpts from a book written by doctor and journalist, Nelson Castro, has detailed some staggering details surrounding Maradona's demise.

Maradona's burial was changed

"There was a group of Gimnasia La Plata barra bravas that planned to break in and extract the heart," Castro detailed in an interview with El Trece.

"That didn't come to fruition because people found out it was going to happen so Maradona's heart was extracted.

"It was also extracted for study, because his heart was very important in determining the cause of death, obviously, the information is that he is buried without a heart."

It's a well-known fact that the Argentine legend was in ill-health in the months leading up to his death, with some even suggesting that he didn't want to get better, a theory that Castro supports in his writing.

"Unfortunately, he had an addictive personality to everything that was destructive for him, others would have died a long time before," Castro added.

"Maradona had a privileged body in terms of its resistance. The problem is that he never wanted to make a sustained recovery."

A heart attack is widely considered to be the event which ended the former Napoli icon's life, although there were some striking details revealed about the actual organ itself.

"Maradona's heart weighed half a kilo, it was a very big heart," Castro continued.

"Normally they weigh 300g, even though he had the heart of an athlete which are bigger, this was big because of something else. It was because of the heart failure he had."