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Heartbreaking ‘last video’ of Diego Maradona days before he died surfaces

Soccer Football - Superliga - Boca Juniors v Gimnasia y Esgrima - Alberto J. Armando Stadium, Buenos Aires, Argentina - March 7, 2020, Gimnasia y Esgrima coach Diego Maradona before the match [REUTERS/Agustin Marcarian/File Photo]

Diego Maradona slurs his words and admits: “I’m bruised” in a shocking last video of the soccer icon taken days before he died.

The former Napoli and Barcelona star, his head still bandaged after his hospital brain blood clot op, appears to struggle to find his words at times as he sends a message to his doctor from the kitchen of the rented home where he died.

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