last time it Naples he won scudetto It was 1990 and Diego Armando Maradona He played for the club. It was the second time then, and after that the team had its special descent into hell with a bankruptcy and even landing in the C-series equivalent of the Spanish third division. But this Thursday parthenopes (also known as albicelestes), a young team retailer trained Luciano Spaletti and consists of an Italian-led multiethnic group Giovanni DiLorenzoThey finally avenge the honor of that success machine the club had years ago. After a season where they were almost always at the top, Napoli is the champion of Italy again. And the city, how could it be less, went crazy.
least kept secret calcium This is how it was resolved with an extraordinary victory. five days Before the natural closing of the A-series and with stunning figures. Napoli finished second with 80 points, 16 points above Lazio. They won 25 matches, got 5 draws and 3 losses. He scored 69 goals. An incredible result after years of trouble. But also the result has been rumored for months when Naples first started piling up. an incredible distance It is understood that his rivals and the Italian league have already been sold. “We’re going to play to catch him. scudetto” had promised spallette at the beginning of the season. He more than kept his word.
Finally happened Napoli’s draw with Udinese (1-1) this Thursday allowed the Neapolitan team to get the final point they needed. mathematically the cup is yours wednesday glory lazio, finished second in the standings against Sassuolo (2-0) after Salernitana delayed Napoli’s victory. Nigerian offensive player Victor Osimhen, one of the rising stars of the season, scored in the 52nd minute and made Napoli the Italian Serie A champion.
flares and choirs
After the same goal a mass of people Those who prepared for victory early on, burst into enthusiasm in the streets and alleys of the city. they burned there light blue fireworks and flaresand they began to sing the best-known songs of Neapolitan fans. One of the most beautiful: “It’s been so long, we will never be apart. are kids of the volcano) VesuviusMaybe one day it will explode. A life with you, three o’clock on Sundays, I can’t be alone, without you. A melody that at times seems to be heard in harmony, streets and squares from the city.
football history of italy, debt to battered southern Italythem scudetti For the last two decades it has always been in the hands of clubs in the north of the country, and these days the Neapolitans do not forget to give it as a gift. His response to each fan’s question gave the magnitude of the victory for any Neapolitan with minimal interest in football. “This scudetto represents a rematch, we want to shinecourage and ignorance”, synthesized Archimedes, 45 years old. Luca, 55, his colleague, said: “We are not rich, they criticize and despise us.
maradona
Another ubiquitous figure maradona, who loves in Naples perhaps more than Argentina. “Mother, do you know why my heart is beating? I saw Maradona, I saw Maradona …” the phrase was heard over and over on the streets of Naples these weeks. “Olé, olé, olé, Diego …” echoed in the wealthier and more modest neighborhoods. Around the murals dedicated to him in the Plaza de los Artistas, especially in the last few weeks, many have gone to pray and pay their respects in front of the great Neapolitan festival.
Georgian Jvicha Kvaratshelia (22 years), osimhen (24 years old), Mexican Hiring Rodrigo Lozano (27 years old) and South Korean Kim MinJae (26 years old), all so young and until recently the big unknowns, will now be part of the pantheon of great Neapolitan legends. And with them, of course, is filmmaker Aurelio De Laurentis, who has owned the club since that famous bankruptcy. Naples will rise, like a Phoenix bird, from the ashes. “We wanted to win and we won together,” De Laurentis said in his first statement after the win.