Friday, March 18, 2011

Twenty years of the King from the Adda, the lights come back on to Naples

March 17, 1991 - March 17, 2011, today. Long wait twenty years, waiting for the engine of the universe. Exactly twenty years ago Diego Armando Maradona lost scepter, dethroned by all the vices and weaknesses of a unique character beyond good and evil. El Pibe de Oro was not only the strongest player of all time, but the sublime synthesis of the dream behind this wonderful sport.

And 'one who has trivialized the word love, too restrictive to express the attachment of two nations, Argentina and Naples, against this genius of football. Two people who have merged into a single claim, Diego Armando Maradona. Stadio San Paolo, 3 July 1990, the World Championship semi-final between Italy and Argentina, the blue people, Italian with a capital, he could not turn his back on God's seven-gold, it was renamed.

Seven years of Maradona, 84 to 91, which led to Naples and the Naples summit, in Italy as in Europe. The apotheosis of the Naples football history, the pride of a people who many times was to watch without ever losing the smile on the lips. Seven years of magic, difficult to define a player's every touch an illuminated by the great great challenges, triumphs and happiness.

Until that March 17, 1991, Napoli-Bari 1-0 with a network of Zola: El Pibe de Oro is raffled all'antidoping, will be found cocaine in his veins to sanction the inexorable decline. The drug was venting to a (non) life of a person weak in his unspeakable magnitude, stifled by the end of "too much" love of those who revered him.

"I did not feel more of a symbol to represent something, to take all the stress that causes this machine, this football. I confess my inability, my fragility, even though my presumption, my pride made me look different. " Diego Armando Maradona. March 17, 2011, no heir, but take away the dreams to the people of Naples is a difficult exercise in imagination.

For twenty long years Naples has not wanted to see, or rather it is seen to frustrate their dreams a reality is not up to the imagination. The wait is over, Naples is big again. Regardless of what you will, stand up in front of Napoli De Laurentiis, Walter Mazzarri, Cavan and companions.

A serious company and ambitious, a champion Tuscan leader, a wonderful center-icing of a group of high level. Maradona will be just as proud.

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