Maradona fans pour onto streets as casket arrives at cemetery
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CONVOY CARRYING CASKET OF SOCCER LEGEND DIEGO MARADONA ARRIVING AT BELLA VISTA CEMETERY / FANS GATHERED ALONG STREETS TO SEE CASKET, CHEERING AND CHANTING
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SHOWS: BELLA VISTA, BUENOS AIRES PROVINCE, ARGENTINA (NOVEMBER 26, 2020) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL)
1. CONVOY CARRYING CASKET OF SOCCER LEGEND DIEGO MARADONA ARRIVING AT BELLA VISTA CEMETERY
SAN MIGUEL, BUENOS AIRES PROVINCE, ARGENTINA (NOVEMBER 26, 2020) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL)
2. VARIOUS OF CROWDS CHEERING AND CHANTING ON THE STREETS AFTER GATHERING TO SEE PROCESSION
BELLA VISTA, BUENOS AIRES PROVINCE, ARGENTINA (NOVEMBER 26, 2020) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL)
3. CROWD OF PEOPLE CHEERING AND CHANTING
4. MAN HOLDING UP T-SHIRT SAYING (Spanish): "Always eternal Maradona."
5. MAN ON LAMP POST LOOKING ON
6. MEN CHANTING
7. POLICE OFFICERS
8. MAN HOLDING BABY LOOKING ON
9. VARIOUS OF CROWD CHANTING
STORY: Argentina's Diego Maradona, one of the world's greatest ever soccer players, was buried on Thursday (November 26) amid a global outpouring of grief from the streets of Buenos Aires to Naples in Italy.
The death of Maradona at the age of 60 on Wednesday (November 25), following a heart attack, has sparked both mourning and celebrations of a true sporting star, who was a genius on the soccer field but lived a life marred by struggles with addiction.
In a day of high emotion, the World Cup winner was taken by hearse late on Thursday to the Bella Vista cemetery on the outskirts of Buenos Aires - where his parents are also interred - for a small private ceremony of his family and close friends.
Thousands of Argentines lined the roads as the procession passed on the hour-long journey from the presidential palace in central Buenos Aires, where Maradona had lain in state during the day.
In Argentina, three days of national mourning were called for the player who led the country to a 1986 World Cup win and is revered with cult-like status. Tens of thousands took to the streets, not all wearing masks, despite fears over the COVID-19 pandemic.
(Production: Leonardo Benassato, Iona Serapica)
