In a trial of seven health professionals accused of the negligent homicide of Argentine footballing legend Diego Maradona, experts involved in his autopsy testified on Tuesday that the football legend had an abnormally large heart. The experts who conducted Maradona’s autopsy also testified that he was suffering from cirrhosis but stated that his body showed no traces of alcohol or drugs at the time of his death. Maradona, who orchestrated Argentina’s World Cup triumph in 1986, passed away on November 25, 2020 at the age of 60. Forensic expert Alejandro Ezequiel Vega told the court that Maradona’s heart was “enlarged” and weighed around 503 grams, when the average weight is between 250 and 300 grams. Vega explained that the examination of Maradona’s heart revealed that the legend suffered from “long-standing ischemia,” with a “lack of blood flow and oxygen.” Maradona breathed his last while on house hospitalization in a residence in Buenos Aires, a few days after undergoing surgery for a hematoma that formed between his skull and brain. Story continues below this ad The …