{"id":81712,"date":"2020-12-05T14:37:25","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T09:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=81712"},"modified":"2020-12-05T14:37:25","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T09:07:25","slug":"2019-video-shared-as-huge-crowed-gathered-in-footballer-maradonas-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/2019-video-shared-as-huge-crowed-gathered-in-footballer-maradonas-funeral\/","title":{"rendered":"Video from 2019 falsely shared as massive crowd at Diego Maradona’s funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"

Argentinian footballer Diego Maradona passed away on November 25 at the age of 60 from a heart attack. Shortly before his death, he was undergoing an operation to remove a blood clot from his brain. The football star was laid to rest<\/a> in his hometown, the Argentinian capital of Buenos Aires on November 26.<\/p>\n

Following this, several users posted a video on social media showing a huge crowd of people gathered at a stadium. Twitter user @Exsecular, who is followed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, shared the video claiming it shows the crowd at Maradona’s funeral. (Archive link<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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#Maradona<\/a> funeral ! Via WA pic.twitter.com\/8kUa6V5swI<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Exsecular (@ExSecular) November 27, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A few other Twitter users (1<\/a>, 2<\/a>) also shared the clip with the same claim.<\/p>\n

This claim also made its way to Facebook. Vega Entertainment, a verified Facebook page, shared the video claiming Maradona’s fans gathered at the stadium for his last rites. (Archive link<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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Diego Maradona’s funeral procession today.<\/a><\/p>\n

#DiegoMaradona’s funeral procession today.
\nMesmerizing.
\nWhat does it indicate ?
\nA man par excellence.
\nHe is neither a president nor a prime minister of any country.
\nHis performance in football ground spoke for him.
\nSo much of Love, adulation & respect who gets these days ?
\nHe will remain immortal in the hearts of football fans.
\nMaradona..U have gone now in the safe hands of God, but whole football fraternity will remember U as ” God of Football” like our own living legend Sachin Tendulkar as ” God of cricket”
\nMaradona..Bravo
\nMay your soul rest in eternal peace in the lap of Almighty.
\n\ud83d\ude4f\ud83d\ude4f\ud83d\ude4f<\/p>\n

#Diego #Maradona #Argentinefootballplayer #footballplayer #VegaEntertainment<\/p>\n

Posted by Vega Entertainment<\/a> on Thursday, November 26, 2020\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

Fact-check<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Alt News performed a reverse image search of a few frames of the clip and found a fact check report by news agency AFP dated June 13, 2020<\/a>. This itself proves the video could not possibly depict Maradona’s funeral. The report states that the video was earlier viral as a “demonstration against Argentina’s president, Alberto Fernandez”.<\/p>\n

Local newspaper La Nacion reported on October 20, 2019<\/a>, that a crowd had gathered near the Obelisk memorial in Buenos Aires ahead of the upcoming elections in support of then-president Mauricio Macri. Therefore, this clip shows a group of people attending an election rally. AFP also included Macri’s tweet containing a picture of the aerial view of the rally.<\/p>\n

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Multitudinario #19o<\/a>. #S\u00edSePuede<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/DJWofhRr5t<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Mauricio Macri (@mauriciomacri) October 19, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Comparing the frame appearing at the 13-second mark in the viral clip with the photo in this tweet confirms that both were taken at the same rally.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Macri had also broadcast a Facebook Live<\/a> from the event which can be found on his official Facebook page. This picture was also shared on his Instagram profile<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Therefore, the video is actually a year old and it shows a massive crowd gathered at the election rally of Argentina\u2019s former president Mauricio Macri. It does not depict Maradona’s funeral processions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Argentinian footballer Diego Maradona passed away on November 25 at the age of 60 from a heart attack. Shortly before his death, he was undergoing an operation to remove a blood clot from his brain. The football star was laid to rest in his hometown, the Argentinian capital of Buenos Aires on November 26. Following […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":81722,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[739],"coauthors":[691],"class_list":["post-81712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","fact_checks_claim_type-viral-photos","an_content_type-fact-check"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2020-11-29-at-03.48.32.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81712"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81724,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81712\/revisions\/81724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81712"},{"taxonomy":"an_content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/an_content_type?post=81712"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=81712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}