One year after his death, Napoli remembers Maradona with three statues
Naples has not given up on its myth, on that man whom a crowd was able to wait every day in front of his house, sure not to be left without a word, a smile, financial help, encouragement, a promise to take an interest
AGI - "Peppiniello those statues go to three". It is appropriate to paraphrase Totò in 'Misery and nobility' to tell one of the two aspects of Naples' tribute to Maradona on the anniversary of his death.
The homage that perhaps shows the most how much that city is lacerated which at the end of the 1980s the unforgettable Pibe de oro was able to unite in a breath of hope and redemption, which then better characterized the season of mayors in 1993 and its redemption as the capital of culture and tourism.
In fact, there are three statues dedicated to the strongest footballer of all time by three city institutions.
The first, the most discussed, conceived a year ago as a tribute from the municipal administration, the subject of controversy since then, and finally donated by its author, Domenico Sepe, to the Municipality, had to be positioned as early as last July within the Maradona stadium.
But the fluctuating relations between Aurelio de Laurentiis and the council headed by Luigi de Magistris blocked its installation, which was then moved outside.
And tomorrow, at 1.30 pm, the bronze sculpture depicting the Argentine champion will be placed in the square in front of the gates of the Distinti sector, visible until 10 pm, awaiting its final location in the coming weeks.
There will also be exponents of the ultra groups at this ceremony, then intending to remember in their own way the center forward della mano de Dios with choirs and smoke bombs around the stadium in the evening, and then returning present in the curve on the occasion of the match against Lazio.
Meanwhile, in social media, yet another controversy is going crazy because in the initial phase the sculptor had positioned the ball in front of the wrong foot, the right, and not the deadly left with which Diego violated the opponent's goal every time he wanted.
The second statue in chronological order is the one that de Laurentiis himself commissioned for the sports facility, which will be placed on November 28 in the Maradona changing rooms, before the match with Lazio, signed by Stefano Ceci, with the limbs modeled according to the proportions of those of the footballer.
Also in this case, controversies such as those already linked to the celebratory shirt worn in the last matches by the players, dark blue with the effigy of the black champion on the background of a sort of white fingerprint, inspired by paintings by the artist Giuseppe Klain, gadget on sale for 150 euros.
The third statue has already been inaugurated and is inside the National Archaeological Museum, in one of its gardens, the result of the work of Christian Leperino and an Artbonus donation from an entrepreneur, Gianfranco D'Amato, called 'The dream of' hero ', with the appearance of a classic Nike, whose memory is actually linked only to his initials carved at the bottom.
The people, those people that Maradona loved to the point of letting them speculate on his image, not claiming rights for the thousands of scarves and sweaters and flags with his face for sale on the stalls, his 10 remembers him in his own way since always , since he left the city at night, almost secretly.
Naples has not given up on the myth of him, on that man whom a crowd was able to wait every day in front of his house, sure not to be left without a word, a smile, financial help, encouragement, a promise to take an interest.
Thus was born the mural of the Spanish Quarters, which became a pagan altar of a myth accepted in the Pantheon of the saving saints of the city, on a par with San Gennaro.
Just as he blocked the devastating plague and the eruption of Vesuvius in the 1600s, so Maradona returned to this fragile and strong city its role and its identity as an Italian capital, still homogenizing in a single body high and low, plebs and aristocracy, as in that atheist Te Deum that professionals and intellectuals dedicated to him during his life.
He is not the only one, because already in conjunction with the conquest of the first Scudetto, in 1987, the effigy of the unforgettable captain capable of building the game of the whole team with his genius, had appeared in almost every corner of the historic center and suburbs.
A few years ago the consecration with that of Jorit in the eastern district of San Giovanni a Teduccio.
The best known altar, on the other hand, is in the heart of the Decumani, inside a bar that is also well known for the extreme quality of its coffee and contains a player's hair, collected by the owner of the restaurant and placed in a glass case. glass, gradually surrounded by 'holy cards' made from football player stickers and cards in increasingly bulky frames.
Even today the homage of a few tourists and of the many Neapolitans who know where to go to greet their champion is still alive.
But the memory that perhaps Maradona would have appreciated the most is that of the children of the districts of Naples, tomorrow afternoon engaged in the five-a-side football tournament named after him: twenty teams of baby footballers aged 9 to 12 in the Ventaglieri park.
Many, among their parents, remember all the times that the champion played in a courtyard or in a garden to cheer up some child who had expressed the desire to see him dribble.
Lucia Vignati, 75, former cook and housekeeper in the Maradona house, wife of the caretaker of the then San Paolo, Saverio, continues to cry for these gestures in her house in Miano, where with one of her 11 children ("Il twelfth was Diego ", he always said) has set up a museum made with relics 'discarded' in the change of company or gifts from Maradona himself.
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