Maradona's loss leaves an immense emptiness in every football lover, even bigger for the hearts of Argentina and Naples. It's in Naples where Diego became Maradona. Napoli's president Aurelio De Laurentiis has expressed himself on the loss of the former Napoli's number 10, through club's official site.
"Dear Diego, you leaves a testimony of what a man can be in all his fragility, strenght, love for life and the others. A unique and unrepeatable champion. Your witnesses, spots and errors are equal to your greatness and cancel themselves in the myth. Many people said you represent the genius and the recklessness. A football's painter: unique brushstrokes to be remembered in greatest artists's Louvre. As to a restless Caravaggio recklessness and indomitable are forgiven due to his greatness.
I think it's right to name San Paolo after your name, to have you with us as a witness of the road this team has begun. Your years have benn unforgettable for every Napoli's citizen. Symbol of a desired ransom and desired resurrection.
Thanks Diego, you stay and will always stay with us."
