His impact on world football has been tremendous, but his effect on the Italian game was positively seismic. He ripped up the unwritten rule that teams from south of Rome had no hope of winning the Scudetto. He took a club that had made an art form out of underachievement and made it a European heavyweight. By his mere presence, he helped to ensure that Serie A became the undisputed best league in the world. In the process, he won the undying love of an entire city.
The tale of Maradona’s Neapolitan adventure can be told in a series of
