“A city, a country, the whole world remember that Diego made us all fall in love, Napoli fans and others. It was an incredible passion and talent”Infantino said from the Diego Maradona stadium in Naples.
“We are no longer in the years of Maradona and President (Corrado) Ferlaino, but Italian football is a spectacle, in the sense that the passion that exists in Italy does not exist in many other countries”added the head of FIFA.
Too Corrado Ferlaino, president of Napoli that hired Maradona, recalled the Argentine star before the microphones of the Dazn chain.
“When I bought him from Barcelona, everyone could think that a city would go crazy for him,” Ferlaino said.
Infantino y Ferlaino they were part of Napoli’s guest list for the inauguration of a 167-centimeter-high statue of Maradona located on the Olympic track of the stadium named after him.
The work was ordered to the Nolana Foundry by Stefano Ceci, Maradona’s ex-manager, who died in 2020 at the age of 60.
The 35,000 Napoli’s “tifosi” who packed the stadium for the match against Lazio cheered the statue and sang choruses dedicated to Maradona, who led the Partenopean club to win its only two Serie A titles.
El president of Napoli, Aurelio De Laurentiis, removed the blanket that covered the statue in a ceremony in which he was accompanied by his brother and vice president, Edoardo De
Laurentiis, by Ferlaino, Infantino, el alcalde de Nápoles, Gaetano Manfredi, el DT del equipo, Luciano Spalletti, y los exfutbolistas Giuseppe Bruscolotti, Salvatore Bagni, Fabio Cannavaro and Luigi Caffarelli.
While the statue made an Olympic lap around the playing field, an audio letter to Maradona was heard dedicated by the writer Maurizio De Giovanni and read by the actor Gianfranco Gallo.
“Such an important foot can only be a way to start again strong, an action that we want to take, we must start, it is said, with the right foot,” said De Laurentiis after caressing the statue’s left foot.
“And it cannot be denied in any way that Maradona’s foot was the right foot. Stroking him is also a gesture of good luck,” completed the president of Napoli.
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