BUENOS AIRES: Diego Maradona was striding towards recovery on Wednesday as he walked around his intensive care hospital room, but the Argentine soccer great's doctors gave no hint of when he would be sent home.

　　The 43-year-old has been in hospital for 11 days after being taken ill with heart and lung problems. His fans have kept a constant vigil outside, some chanting and others praying aloud for his recovery.

　　"He has been able to walk inside his room," the Suizo-Argentina clinic said in a statement on Wednesday. "(He) continues to be stable with progressive improvement in the state of his heart and lungs.

　　"He is without fever, the only medication still administered intravenously are antibiotics and the rest of the medication is taken orally. He continues to eat normally."