Argentina’s appeals court officially announced on Tuesday that eight people, all doctors and nursesaccused of the football legend’s death Diego Maradona they are about to be tried.

The eight defendants face 8 to 25 years in prison for first degree murder.

These are Maradona’s personal doctor neurosurgeon Leopoldo Luque, his psychiatrist Agustina Kosatsov, psychologist Carlos Angel Dias, doctor Nancy Edith Forlini, head nurse Mariano Ariel Peroni, nurse Diana Hisel Madrid, nurse Ricardo Omar Almiron and doctor of the Pedro Pablo Di Spain Clinic.

Maradona died on 25 November 2020 at the age of 60 from pulmonary edema and heart failure in San Andrés in Tigray, where he was receiving home treatment for alcohol addiction while undergoing head surgery.

The eight defendants had appealed to the court in San Ysidro, northwest of Buenos Aires, against the seriousness of the charges, arguing that they should be charged with manslaughter.

A panel of 20 medical experts convened by Argentina’s public prosecutor concluded in 2021 that Maradona “would have a better chance of survival” with adequate treatment in an appropriate medical facility. No date has yet been set for the hearing.