Kuala Lampur, May 4 -- Diego Maradona's entourage and medical team had a plan for the Argentine football star but things "went out of control" in the lead-up to his death, his daughter Gianinna said in an interview this week.

Maradona, regarded as one of the greatest football players of all time, died in November 2020 at the age of 60 of heart failure and acute pulmonary edema - a condition where fluid accumulates in the lungs - while recovering at home from surgery for a brain clot.

"There was definitely a plan and someone was in charge of it, but things got out of their control," Gianinna, 36, told news outlets including AFP.

She spoke on the sidelines of the trial in San Isidro of seven medical workers - including a neurosurgeon, a ...