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Report: Diego Maradona to Have Emergency Brain Surgery

Argentina soccer legend Diego Maradona will have emergency surgery on Tuesday night for a subdural hematoma in his brain, according to TyC Sports and ESPN.

Maradona was first hospitalized on Monday at La Plata Hospital with anemia, dehydration and depression. The Gimnasia y Esgrima manager will be transferred to Clinica Olivos for the surgery.

The procedure to treat the subdural hematoma, a pooling of blood between the brain and its outermost covering, will reportedly be completed by Maradona's personal doctor, Leopoldo Luque.

"We did an MRI one month ago and everything was normal," Luque said, per ESPN.