The legend of Diego Maradona at Napoli hovers over the current team’s Italian league title, which was sealed Thursday. The Argentina standout holds saint-like status in Naples 2½ years after ...

Below a giant mural of Diego Maradona, Napoli fans celebrated the Italian league soccer title as if they were at the game — singing, jumping and lighting flares. On the other side of Naples, at ...

Pierpaolo Marino, the man who brought Diego Armando Maradona to Napoli, reveals Juventus, Inter and Sampdoria all ‘turned down’ the chance to sign El Pibe de Oro first.The arrival of Maradona ...

In that, Maradona, when he arrived at Napoli in 1984, welcomed by 75,000 at the stadium, was readily hailed as the saviour angel descending upon the dusty, forgotten city in Italy’s discarded south.

When Maradona joined Napoli in 1984, the southern club had won virtually nothing and was far removed both geographically and socio-economically from the country’s soccer capitals of Milan and Turin.

How Maradona came to Napoli in 1984 HAMBURG, GERMANY – AUGUST 13: Freundschaftsspiel 1987, Hamburg; Hamburger SV – SSC Neapel; Thomas VON HEESEN/HSV, Diego MARADONA/Napoli (Photo by Bongarts ...

ROME (AP) — Below a giant mural of Diego Maradona, Napoli fans celebrated the Italian league soccer title as if they were at the game — singing, jumping and lighting flares.