A small picture of what the new statue of Diego Maradona will look like is shown, paying homage to his left foot. It will be shown in the city of Naples.
The devotion for Diego Maradona on the part of the Neapolitans was endless. Today, the Scampia neighborhood has been chosen as the venue for a new and specific statue of the “Ten”: it will be his left foot.
A work that, as previously shown inside the Napoli stadium, will be paid for by the actor Stefano Ceci. Thus, the city of Naples, in Italy, will offer a new salute of the Argentine star.
Ceci, the footballer’s former manager, will prepare a three-dimensional work of Maradona’s left foot and it will be displayed in the Scampia neighborhood, an area home to approximately 80,000 residents located north of Naples.
“I thought Scampia the perfect place for this project, born from a proposal by Stefano Ceci and I talked to the president of the club, Aurelio De Laurentiis, ”said the mayor of Naples, Gaetano Manfredi.
A small picture of what the new statue of Diego Maradona will look like is shown, paying homage to his left foot. It will be shown in the city of Naples.
“I think Maradona represents the symbol of the recovery of a man who, with his talent, has achieved the top of the football world,” Manfredi said of the Argentine star who died in November 2020.
“In this way, the statue of Maradona will become the collective heritage of tifosi not only within the stadium but in the city and bringing it to Scampia is a sign of redemption of one of the districts that in the collective imagination have the greatest difficulty “, explained the mayor of Naples.
Manfredi announced the choice of the neighborhood where the statue will be located during a ceremony held in the room of the Giunta di Palazzo San Giacomo, where Ceci gave him a miniature of the taskto be made by the Argentine crack.
Also Napoli president De Laurentiis received a limited edition reproduction of Maradona’s left foot.
“Diego doesn’t have to comment, he needs to find a definitive and proper placement in this territory and we will do that with this project,” Ceci guarantees.
It was also announced that the glory of the Neapolitan group will participate in a ceremony for the laying of Maradona in the chapel of San Gennaro, in the Cathedral of Naples, organized by the association “Legends of Naples”.
Former president Corrado Ferlaino and former footballers Alessandro Renica, Giovanni Francini, Fernando De Napoli, Raffaele Di Fusco, Giuseppe Volpecina, Giuseppe Bruscolotti, Antonio Carannante confirmed their presence at the ceremony scheduled for Tuesday.
With information from ANSA
Source: Clarin
