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04 December 2020From today in Naples there is the Diego Armando Maradona stadium.

The council of the municipality of Naples approved the resolution proposed by the mayor, Luigi de Magistris and by the councilor for toponymy, Alessandra Clemente.

The deed was signed unanimously.

The Fuorigrotta stadium is no longer called "San Paolo", but "Diego Armando Maradona Stadium".



In the act, the administration remembers Maradona as "the greatest footballer of all time who, with his immense talent and his magic, honored the Napoli shirt for seven years, giving it two league titles and other prestigious cups and receiving in exchange from the city eternal love ".



"Maradona - reads the resolution - embodied the redemption symbol of a team which, in the darkest years, has shown that it is possible to get up, win and triumph, while offering a message of hope and beauty to the whole city ​​because, through the football victories of the Argentine champion, it was not only the Napoli team that won, but the entire city, which fully identifies with him; always on the side of the weakest and common people, Maradona fought prejudices and the discrimination to which the Neapolitans were still subject in the stadiums, becoming the idol of the entire city, which also forgave him the weaknesses and frailties of man who never clouded the greatness of the champion ".



The mayor de Magistris, in his resolution, also underlines that he conferred honorary citizenship on Diego Armando Maradona in 2017, as a public attestation of the profound admiration and gratitude on the part of the city and that "no one has ever managed to identify himself in such a way complete in the body and soul of Naples, with which el pibe de oro shared the genius and uniqueness, but also the recklessness and torments that made him a true son of the city ".



The municipal council also remembers the great champion who passed away as "the son of this city who came from afar who wrote us in history and who is written in the history of this city" and also the proclamation of city mourning for the day of his funeral.

"Maradona - reads the resolution of the Giunta de Magistris - is also loved and remembered by those who are not passionate about football or by those who, born after his legendary football feats, have not lived through the years of his successes; the manifestations of condolences and the awards received have also exceeded all sporting, social, geographical, political and religious boundaries, which have had very rare precedents, to the point of making the naming of 'his' Neapolitan stadium become a unanimous chorus far wider than the city's supporters ".