ROME: Hugo Maradona, younger brother of Diego, has died at 52 in Naples after a heart attack. a little over a year after the death of the Argentina superstar.

Napoli announced Hugo’s death in a statement. It added that club president Aurelio De Laurentiis and the team “gather around Maradona’s family and unite with them in the pain caused by Hugo’s death.”

Hugo, who leaves three children in Miami, was pronounced dead when help arrived at his home in Monte di Procida.

He had played in Italy, Austria, Spain, Argentina and Japan, before returning to Italy to settle there permanently and undertook a brief coaching career with amateur clubs in Naples.

He was signed by Napoli in 1987 before being loaned to Ascoli. On September 20 of the same year, the two brothers faced each other in a match won 2-1 by Napoli.

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