The day Maradona set Naples on its feet
Now that he's gone, many remember Diego Armando Maradona (1960-2020), for many the best player in the history of football. The Argentine star, left during his 60 years of life, multitude of good and bad things. Today we prefer to stay with the good ones without a doubt. Like the day I filled the stadium with St. Paul in your presentation.
The day Maradona set Naples on its feet
Was the 5 July 1984. Maradona arrived from Barcelona and after the Copa del Rey final fight of the 84. Nothing more and nothing less than 70.000 people filled the Neapolitan coliseum to receive the star that was going to change their history, that was going to make them a champion team.
The stadium dressed up in gala and blue to welcome its new God. Maradona, asked that poor children could enter for free at a time when the Neapolitan city was not going through a good situation, something unfortunately common in this area of Italy.
D10S for Neapolitans
Naples is a bit orphan with the departure of Maradona. And it is not for less since the '10’ Argentinian, he was more than a footballer for the club, for a whole city. A figure who was influential in all fields of the life of the population while he was there and even after. And it is that nobody will forget the ‘Fluff’ Never. Neither the fans and inhabitants of Naples nor the Argentine fans, nor of course football fans in general.
