Argentine football legend Diego Maradona is furious after a rumour claiming he was dead began doing the rounds immediately after Argentine beat Nigeria in a thriller on Tuesday. Maradona, who was very animated throughout the tense match, was helped out of his VIP seat by medical staff, and moments later, a video claiming he had passed away after suffering a massive heart attack, began doing the rounds of social media.

Maradona, through his lawyer, Matias Morla, is offering a cash reward to anyone who can find the person behind the voice in the video. “I've just spoken to my office in Buenos Aires and I have instructed them to make public the decision to offer a reward of 300,000 Argentinian pesos (R7,20,000) to the person who provides information about the author of the voice messages. When it comes to technological issues like these, I think we can get to the bottom of this. And if there's a financial incentive, someone who knows how something started often ends up revealing it and helping to unmask whoever was behind an atrocity like this,” Morla told Argentine newspaper, Clarin.