Maradona to be discharged within days, says doctor

FILE PHOTO: Fans of Argentine soccer great Diego Maradona, Walter Rotundo and his twin daughters Mara and Dona, who are named after Maradona, pose for a photograph outside the clinic where Maradona underwent brain surgery, in Olivos, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Argentina November 5, 2020. REUTERS/Matias Baglietto

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentine soccer star Diego Maradona is recovering well from a brain operation and post-surgery complications and should be discharged over the next couple of days, his personal physician said on Monday.

"Diego wants to go home and we are evaluating his discharge," Leopoldo Luque told reporters outside the hospital where the 60-year old Maradona was operated on last week for a subdural haematoma, a blood clot on the brain.