Buenos Aires (Argentina): Football great Diego Maradona underwent a successful brain surgery for a blood clot here on Tuesday, his doctor said.
“We managed to successfully remove the clot. Diego coped well with the surgery,” Leopoldo Luque said at the icon’s private clinic in the capital Buenos Aires.
“It’s under control, there’s a little drainage (of blood). He’ll remain under observation.”
World Cup winner Maradona had been taken to hospital in La Plata — where he is the coach of top flight side Gimnasia y Esgrima — on Monday for a series of tests after feeling unwell.
A scan revealed the blood clot, and on Tuesday he was transfered to the specialist clinic in a northern neighborhood of the capital.
Maradona, who turned 60 on Friday, has suffered ill health before. He has survived two heart attacks, and also contracted hepatitis and undergone gastric bypass surgery.
