A love of life. This is how you can summarize their lives Diego Maradona and the recreation of Naples for seven years. One day like today, 38 years ago, the idyll began between ‘el 10’ and the city of Napleslocated in southern Italy, and its club.
On July 5, 1984, the team showed up in a crowded stadium Saint Paul -which now bears the name of Maradona– as his new player the Argentine soccer player.
He signed from Barça
Maradona came as a star, from FC Barcelonabut there it is, in Napleswhere his figure grew.
On that hot summer afternoon, the Argentine wearing a white T-shirt and a light blue sweatshirt, with his black hair curled in the sun, greeted the 80,000 fans present at the stadium raised his arms then began to juggle the ball before. an audience that was immediately struck by his genius.
On July 5, one of the strongest passions football has ever seen began and that, despite the idol’s death on November 25, 2020, seemed endless.
For 14,000 million lire (10.5 million dollars), a figure paid by the Italian club Barca, Naples He immediately saw the first fruits of that investment.
Y Maradona He paid for his crack plays and his goals with every applause from Neapolitan fans in the seven seasons in which he showed his best version and he surpassed himself.
He made a team considered Serie B almost famous and miraculously avoided relegation for three consecutive seasons.
became immortal
raised the The Azzurri at the top of the football world in what many consider his best decade as a player, in the 1980s, and he was raised as the benchmark of the kind of misunderstanding of a divided Italian society and where struggles were carried on the pitch. Doon Maradonawith his victories within the field, he became immortal for the city of Naples.
And with him Diego of people, the Diego which led to the football revolution in Italy, Naples he won five titles: the 1987 Serie A and 1990 Serie A ‘Scudettos’, the 1987 Italian Cup, the 1989 UEFA Cup and the 1990 Super Cup.
115 goals in 259 fights
Also, Maradona he scored 115 goals and provided 78 assists in 259 games played, he was the top scorer in the Italian league in 1987 and in the Italian Cup in 1988.
The titles are considered historic in Italian football, as it is a league dominated by powerful clubs, those from the North, such as Milan, Inter, Juventus, who still rules that country; but was overtaken at that time by one from the South led by Maradonathe star that explains a formation without beautiful figures.
Argentina and the world still mourn him, in every ephemeris, in every memory, but Naples he was always in her heart, so over the years, 5 July was declared by Neapolitan fans as ‘Maradona’s Loyalty Day’ and his 10 shirt was also revoked by the team.
Naples Y Maradonaan unconditional love.
Source: La Verdad
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