Napoli players posing with Maradona’s shirt.
At the beginning of the year, more precisely in March, the Naples He paid another tribute to Diego Maradona: The Italian club has decided to release a new jersey that had the face of the Argentine star and idol of the Neapolitan cast overlaid by a fingerprint. However, it will no longer be used as this Wednesday it was decreed that the Italian team will not be able to continue using the image of their idol on the shirt.
What happened?
In practice, the judge Paolo Andrea Vassallo for some time warned Stefano Ceci, legal representative of Diez Fze company in Dubai, to refrain from “reusing the image of Diego Armando Maradona” at the request of his heirs and authorized the lawyer Sebastián Baglietto to impose the seizure of assets and credits of Diego’s former agent up to the sum of 150 thousand euros.
From this, Baglietto himself presented this precautionary measure which was approved by Judge Vasallo and has been in force since 19 September and prevents the diffusion or use of the image of Maradona both by Ceci and Naples.
The request was presented for damages reported by the heirs relating to the production of jackets that the Napoli players used and that had Maradona’s face stamped with a drawing by the architect Giuseppe Klain.
A business that will now be a problem
Up to six thousand of these shirts were sold for 150 euros each, then it was a profit of around one million euros for Napoli, even if € 22,500 went to Stefano Ceci, who sold him the marketing license.
The heirs of MaradonaWhich ones are they dalma, Gianinna, Diego Fernando, Diego Jr. Y janahis father’s Italian partner had been warned not to use the image rights without his consent, therefore Failure to comply with this despite the warning led the magistrate to establish that “he must be civilly liable for the damages suffered by the actors”.
Source: Clarin
