How many things did he experience, in all, in the only place in the world that made him a martyr and a sovereign, where you live to touch the sky and turn to pessimism in an instant. It was the city that first put one of its hairs under a display case in a bar window and then locked it directly under a cloak of terrible respect. The city that forced him to live at night and had a Rotonda named after him on the outskirts of the city. The city that treated him like a god, never like a star, worshiped him more than the fifty-two patron saints and their shed blood. The city which when sworn in was said to have mammà walls, began to swear Diego Maradona, said several times Oh Nennillolike baby Jesus, or Oh Masto, teacher, for the older ones, the word that symbolizes employer is profit, prosperity, gratitude.
Best wish for Maradona: “Gift? The end of the pandemic and another title for Napoli”
Era Diegosimply put. Diego just by saying his name, like Eduardo or more precisely as Eduardo said that the king and hairdresser deserved to be called. That is, too Diecowith c, indeed Thiechito. It was the baptismal name for 527 children born in the city, excluding the province, in 7 non-repeatable years, 12 of whom Diego Armando and one full Diego Armando Maradona. He is a pizza chef in a town near Vesuvius. Envoys from overseas still came to talk to him.
Maradona, the imperfect god of football: immortal only on the pitch
Maurizio Crosetti
Diego arrived as Mowgli who is looking for a family and goes like Simba who ran away from his family. There were eighty thousand people at San Paolo to greet him and no one accompanied him on his farewell day to the airport. He exchanged with the residents Naples all kinds of love, spiritual and physical. He said: «When I leave, I will take with me the desire to beat Giuve».
He is an avenging angel, a destroyer of the established order. He made the only successful revolution in the city and lazy people still call him Masaniello. The Scudetto is such a remote possibility that old people hope it will never come, they say: never be God – which means: God forbid – never be God because otherwise the end of the world will come. Diego did a miracle and immediately, when he said don’t invade the pitch, we want to celebrate with you, and no one came in.
Maradona scored 60: genius, weakness
Maurizio Crosetti and Paolo Condo
It is very powerful as a Naples they managed to become just dialects and chants, bridges between the upper and lower parts of the city, the rich and the poor, the postcards and the alleys, the reinforced concrete houses and the tuffs, the surface and the catacombs, the living and the dead, with the first one after the scudetto on the wall of the cemetery makes the other discover the inscription: What have you missed. He is like the Eternal Father to the humble and the law to the jurists.
It was a song that became a saying, Maradona is better’ and Pelémusic by maestro Campassi. It has been a subject of study for anthropologists and sociologists. It was a musical performance (by Tato Russo), an intellectual committee (Te Diegum), piece Pino Daniele (A true angel). There he is murals in the Spanish Quarter and in one a San Giovanni and Teduccio. It was Paolo Sorrentino’s dedication to the Oscars. He is a father who was chased all his life by a junior Diego.
He is an invited guest at parties, at clubs to be inaugurated, at baptisms, at meetings in the unspeakable city and in the gray zone, the porous city, where everything passes without a hitch from one side to the other. It was a photo taken and exhibited, Diego’s smile, a smile, in the years when Naples had ministers in the government who acted as bank guarantors. One day he returned from Turin and said in amazement that he had left the hotel to buy aftershave, no one stopped him, he who every day in Naples showed that he was vulnerable and indestructible. It is mixed with life and there is only one thought today that is worth caressing about. This is the last time Maradona die.
