The day when Napoli emerged as champions and Maradona “returned” to score on goals to celebrate the Scudetto

How would I celebrate? Diego Maradona a shield of Naples? How would this one who just came in 33 years from the last one he chiseled celebrate? The answer doesn’t come from his mouth, but from his Instagram account. The same one that after his painful and inexplicable death, that cursed November 25, 2020, was drawn among those interested in keeping, among other things, his memory.

“A new date to remember, a new joy for the city, for the people, for history. Thanks to all of you! GO NAPLES ????” reads the text that accompanies the recreated image of a Maradona turned away, looking his time in football.

In the image, in the present, he climbs a few steps in a suburb near the stadium, which now bears his name, where everything is celebrating the new Scudetto. The names of the new champions are written on each step and the one who should climb the next step – Diego is climbing, as if he were heading for the celebrations – reads “Napoli Campione 2022-2023”.

The image is crowned by a sort of garland with 12 jerseys with the numbers of most holders and flags as braces, with the colors of Italy and Napoli. This is how Dalma Maradona imagined it, who manages his father’s official account, after recovering it from the power of Matías Morla.

Would Maradona have said or written those words? In less than an hour, the publication received 135,000 hearts and nearly a thousand comments. Would he have sat as a guest in the box on the Udinese field and then, as in the image, would he have mixed with the Neapolitans? Impossible to imagine the unpredictable mood of him. But there is the post in your name and you can choose to believe it would have been.