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Alleged financial gains: Maradona’s daughters to shun tribute match

 

Diego Maradona’s daughters, Dalma and Gianinna, have said they will not attend the ‘Maradona Cup’ tribute match between Barcelona and Boca Juniors in December, and hit out at the commercialisation after the death of their father.

The late football great died in November 2020, aged 60, after suffering a heart attack. At the time, he was recovering from an operation at a clinic to remove a blood clot from his head.

To remember and pay respects to Maradona, two of his former clubs will face each other in Saudi Arabia. He had two spells with Boca, where he retired in 1997, and also enjoyed two years at Barcelona before joining Napoli in 1984.

However, his daughters have since expressed their dismay with the occasion and taken aim the 1986 World Cup winner’s former lawyer.

Meetings held to plan for the match used Matias Morla as an intermediary, but he has endured a heated relationship with both Dalma and Gianinna after they accused him of abandoning their father and acting with ‘dishonesty’.

According to Cuatro in Spain, Dalma said: ‘This is the guy who approached my father as a fan and now claims to be the owner of my father’s image, voice and name, stating that this is not his children.’

In the past, Morla’s offices were raided by anti-fraud police, and the legal representative remains locked in a bitter inheritance dispute with Maradona’s daughters over the legend’s brand and image rights.

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Asked about the tension, Morla took aim at Dalma and Gianinna, and claimed they abandoned their father before his death.

‘Maradona was abandoned, that’s clear,’ Morla told America TV. ‘He died alone, apart from the sisters with whom he spoke every day and (his ex-girlfriend) Veronica Ojeda, who went to see him with Dieguito Fernando, his son.’

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