Barcelona and Boca meet Tuesday in Riyadh in honor of Maradona

The Marsool Park Stadium in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, will be the stage on Tuesday for a friendly match between Argentina's Boca Juniors and Barcelona on the "Maradona Cup", in order to commemorate the late Argentine legend Diego Maradona.

The match will take place a year after the death of the "golden boy" on November 25, 2020, and coincides with the 2021 Riyadh season, where the stars of the Saudi teams Al Hilal and Al Nasr will play on the same stadium a match against Paris Saint-Germain next month with the participation of all the stars of the latter, led by the Argentine Lionel Messi. Kylian Mbappe and Neymar, the Brazilian.

Maradona wore the Boca Juniors shirt twice, first in the 1981-1982 season and then in 1995, in his last two professional seasons in a long career.

Maradona also played in Barcelona's colors for two seasons between 1982 and 1984, where he played 58 matches and won the King's Cup, before moving to Napoli, Italy, where he achieved his footballing exploits.

Maradona, who was crowned the World Cup in Mexico in 1986 and one of the greatest players in the history of football, died at the age of 60 of a heart attack, just weeks after he underwent brain surgery after suffering a blood clot.

Since then, the local authorities have been trying to determine whether the death of one of the most famous people who wore the number 10 shirt in the stadiums was a result of negligence on the part of the medical team, which caused his health to deteriorate, following a complaint filed by the Maradona family.

Maradona had visited Saudi Arabia and participated in a friendly match with Al-Ahly Jeddah team in November 1987 against the Danish team Brondby in a football sports festival to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Saudi club.

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