REUTERS: Diego Maradona was raised in dire poverty and would always take the side of the oppressed which made Napoli, sneered at by the richer clubs from northern Italy, the perfect team for him.
Defensive tactics and gamesmanship were the order of the day and the likes of Maradona were subjected to vicious treatment by defenders, who were allowed to hack lumps out of them with impunity. When Maradona was flown in by helicopter for his official presentation, 75,000 people packed into the stadium to see him and one newspaper said that none of the city's problems matter"because we have Maradona"."Naples was a crazy city – they were as crazy as me – soccer was life itself," Maradona, who had previously been at Barcelona, once said.
Local politicians fell over themselves to be photographed with him and even today, paintings of Maradona still adorn walls around the city.
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