Get Maradona Leaving Naples Images. Fans took to the streets to honor the argentine icon in naples. Maradona arrived from barcelona and gave napoli the most successful period in their history candles and scarves lie next to a picture of legend diego maradona outside the san paolo stadium.
Watch argentina legend's greatest napoli moments. Three decades have passed since diego maradona last played for naples, but he towers over the city — with a status somewhere between a. Maradona won the world cup with argentina in 1986, having knocked england out in the quarter final with diego maradona, argentinian footballing legend and one of the greatest ever to play the game.
Soccer legend diego maradona mourned in naples.
Maradona had recently battled health issues naples mayor luigi de magistris on wednesday proposed that napoli should rename their san paolo. Napoli fans flocked to diego maradona's mural in naples to remember their club's most iconic player. Maradona led napoli into a golden era in the club's history when he arrived in southern italy in. Maradona was mobbed by tens of thousands of fans when he first arrived in naples, but he left.