Napoli, unleashed fans: full of enthusiasm at Maradona

The summer has just ended a few days ago, but Naples has warmed up for Napoli only at the twilight of the summer: there will be 40,000 on Saturday at Maradona in the match against Torino and in 2600 (sold out) following the team in Amsterdam against Ajax. All normal in a city in football such as Naples were it not that until a month and a half ago – that is, at the beginning of the championship – it was the time of controversy and skepticism.

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Not surprisingly, the blue club was the last to trigger the season ticket campaign because the air that was blowing in the city did not bode well: banners against De Laurentiis, latent protest in retreat both in Dimaro and in Castel di Sangro and that increasingly marked split between the city and the team. Then, the magic of the results overturned all forms of disappointment due to the sales of the various Mertens, Insigne and Koulibaly and already after the debut in Verona there was a bit of a crowd in Fuorigrotta against Monza. The season ticket campaign has even reopened and the figure seems to exceed 10,000 (it closes on Saturday).

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There is a desire for Naples and obviously for the Scudetto but we dream … in moderation after the last few years in which the tricolor has only been touched. It hasn’t come since 1990, when Diego Armando Maradona was in Naples, to whom a street in Pompeii has now been named, complete with a resolution, where via Vittorio Emanuele III will become via Diego Armando Maradona. “I intended to welcome the will of the citizens”, said the mayor Carmine Lo Sapio – inaugurating in the street named after the Pibe de Oro the mural by the Argentine artist Maxi Bagnasco immortalized during a 1990 World Cup match with the “Selección” shirt but the coat of arms of Naples.