Diego Maradona on health scare: “I am very much alive”

Maradona, 57, appeared to require assistance when leaving his seat in a video posted by Mexican journalist Fernando Schwartz.

The video had a lot of people concerned over Maradona’s health forcing him to speak about it in Telesur’s ‘De La Mano del 10’ programme.

“I was shocked that (reports suggested) there had been a stretcher, an ambulance,” Maradona says.

“Nothing happened.

“We were all together, the Telesur team and my team, and we could not believe how social networks started to make a big lie, which made no sense, go viral like that.

It makes me a bit angry, because my sister, yesterday she made me whistle on the phone to see if I was okay, and I went (whistles).

‘What else do you want me to do?’ I asked her.

My brother in Italy, my nephew in the United States were worried because of course, the bad news travels much faster than the good news.

I am very much alive, and very well taken care of.”

There you have it folks, Maradona, in his own words is “very much alive”