Updated On: 26 November, 2020 01:22 PM IST | Mumbai | IANS
The football legend was no stranger to Kerala as in 2012, he had arrived on a two-day state visit to inaugurate a new showroom of a jewellery chain in Kannur

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan
The Kerala government has announced a two-day state mourning following the death of football legend Diego Armando Maradona. Kerala Sports Minister E.P.Jayarajan has announced that the mourning will be observed in the state starting Thursday.
Maradona died due to cardiorespiratory arrest at his home in the Tigre district on the northern outskirts of the capital Buenos Aires on Wednesday.