One of Diego Maradona's daughters testified Tuesday in the trial of seven medical professionals accused of negligence in the soccer great's death, describing the room where her father underwent home hospitalization in 2020 as "disgusting" and "smelling of urine." Dalma Maradona said she and her siblings were deceived by the doctors treating their father. "They promised us a home hospitalization that never happened," said Dalma, the eldest of the former Argentina captain's five children and the first of them to testify in court.

"They made us believe in something that never happened. They deceived us in the cruelest way to support that," she added. Maradona, who led Argentina to the World Cup title in 1986, died on Nov. 25, 2020 while undergoing home hospitalization on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, days after undergoing surgery for a hematoma that formed between his skull and brain. He was 60. Dalma said the facility was not fit for medical treatment. "It smelled like urine, the bed was disgusting," she said.