{"id":48586,"date":"2026-04-14T16:00:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T10:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=48586"},"modified":"2026-04-14T16:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T10:41:11","slug":"new-trial-begins-in-diego-maradona-death-case-who-are-the-seven-medical-professionals-facing-negligent-homicide-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/new-trial-begins-in-diego-maradona-death-case-who-are-the-seven-medical-professionals-facing-negligent-homicide-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"New trial begins in Diego Maradona death case: Who are the seven medical professionals facing negligent homicide charges?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"auto\">A new trial over the death of Argentine football legend <strong>Diego Maradona<\/strong> kicked off on Tuesday, April 14, 2026, in San Isidro, near Buenos Aires. Seven members of his medical team are charged with <strong>negligent homicide<\/strong> (culpable homicide) nearly a year after the original proceedings collapsed in a high-profile mistrial.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">Maradona, the 1986 World Cup champion and one of the greatest soccer players of all time, died on November 25, 2020, at age 60 from a heart attack while recovering at home from brain surgery to remove a subdural hematoma.<\/p>\n<h3 dir=\"auto\">The Accused: Who Are the Seven Medical Professionals on Trial?<\/h3>\n<p dir=\"auto\">The seven defendants, all part of the team responsible for Maradona\u2019s home care in his final weeks, have denied any wrongdoing. They face potential prison sentences of up to 25 years if convicted. Here are their names and roles:<\/p>\n<ul dir=\"auto\">\n<li><strong>Agustina Cosachov<\/strong> \u2014 Psychiatrist<\/li>\n<li><strong>Leopoldo Luque<\/strong> \u2014 Neurosurgeon and Maradona\u2019s primary personal physician<\/li>\n<li><strong>Carlos Angel Diaz<\/strong> \u2014 Psychologist<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nancy Edith Forlini<\/strong> \u2014 Physician and medical coordinator<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ricardo Almiron<\/strong> \u2014 Nurse<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mariano Ariel Perroni<\/strong> \u2014 Head nurse \/ Nursing coordinator<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pedro Pablo Di Spagna<\/strong> \u2014 Physician<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p dir=\"auto\">An eighth defendant, nurse <strong>Dahiana Madrid<\/strong> (also referred to as Gisela Madrid in some reports), will be tried separately in a jury trial with no date set yet.<\/p>\n<h3 dir=\"auto\">What Are the Charges?<\/h3>\n<p dir=\"auto\">Prosecutors allege that the medical team provided deficient and reckless care during Maradona\u2019s home recovery. They described the setup as a \u201c<strong>theatre of horror<\/strong>,\u201d claiming essential monitoring, proper medication management, and adequate professional supervision were missing in violation of treatment protocols.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">A 2021 medical board investigation concluded the team acted in an \u201c<strong>inappropriate, deficient, and reckless<\/strong>\u201d manner. The defense argues that Maradona\u2019s death was inevitable due to his decades-long struggles with cocaine and alcohol addiction, along with other severe health complications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new trial over the death of Argentine football legend Diego Maradona kicked off on Tuesday, April 14, 2026, in\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":502,"featured_media":48589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[214,1132],"class_list":["post-48586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-death","tag-diego-maradona"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/502"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48586"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48595,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48586\/revisions\/48595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}