Legend Maradona buried in private ceremony

Updated November 27 2020 - 11:04am, first published 11:00am
Diego Maradona's coffin lies in state at the funeral chapel of Buenos Aires' Casa Rosada palace.
Diego Maradona's coffin lies in state at the funeral chapel of Buenos Aires' Casa Rosada palace.

Soccer superstar Diego Maradona was buried Thursday in a private ceremony attended by only two dozen people - a stark contrast to earlier in the day when tens of thousands of weeping fans filed past his coffin for hours in an observance that mixed head-of-state-like honours with the chaos of a rowdy stadium.

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