{"id":573245,"date":"2020-11-25T16:41:04","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T21:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=573245"},"modified":"2020-11-25T16:41:04","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T21:41:04","slug":"napoli-stadium-to-be-renamed-after-diego-maradona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/11\/25\/napoli-stadium-to-be-renamed-after-diego-maradona\/","title":{"rendered":"Napoli Stadium to Be Renamed After Diego Maradona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mayor of Naples, Luigi de Magistris, has confirmed that Napoli&#8217;s San Paolo stadium will be renamed after Diego Maradona, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/11\/25\/report-football-legend-diego-maradona-dies-at-60\/\" target=\"_self\">following the Argentine&#8217;s death on Wednesday, November 25.<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Napoli to Rename Stadium After Death of Club Legend Maradona<\/h2>\n<h3>Maradona Widely Regarded as Napoli&#8217;s Greatest Player<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/demagistris\/status\/1331653371338567683\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The mayor revealed the news on his official Twitter account, stating:<\/a>\u00a0&#8220;We will name the Stadio San Paolo in honour of Diego Armando Maradona!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Diego Armando Maradona, the greatest footballer of all time, Diego has died.\u00a0He made our people dream, he redeemed Naples with his genius.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In 2017 Diego became our citizen of honour, Neapolitan and Argentine, you gave us joy and happiness. Naples loves you!&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"it\">Intitoliamo lo Stadio San Paolo a Diego Armando Maradona!!!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Luigi de Magistris (@demagistris) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/demagistris\/status\/1331653371338567683?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">November 25, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"it\">\u00c8 morto Diego Armando Maradona,il pi\u00f9 immenso calciatore di tutti i tempi.Diego ha fatto sognare il nostro popolo,ha riscattato Napoli con la sua genialit\u00e0.Nel 2017 era divenuto nostro cittadino onorario.Diego, napoletano e argentino,ci hai donato gioia e felicit\u00e0!Napoli ti ama!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Luigi de Magistris (@demagistris) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/demagistris\/status\/1331641012054265857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">November 25, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>de Magistris&#8217; confirmation comes after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/sport\/football\/european\/diego-maradona-death-napoli-san-paolo-stadium-b1761904.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Napoli President Aurelio de Laurentiis confirmed to French sports channel RMC Sport<\/a> that &#8220;we can consider the idea of calling our stadium San Paolo-Diego Armando Maradona.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Maradona spent six full seasons at Napoli, where he enshrined himself into the club&#8217;s history, winning two Serie A titles, one Coppa Italia and one UEFA Cup.<\/p>\n<p>He is widely regarded as the club&#8217;s greatest ever player.<\/p>\n<p>Maradona died aged 60, after suffering a heart attack in his home in Tigres, near Buenos Aires in his homeland.<\/p>\n<p>The 1986 World Cup winner had undergone successful surgery for a blood clot on his brain earlier this month. He was due to be treated for alcohol dependency.<\/p>\n<p>Maradona\u2019s World Cup victory famously came after defeating England in the quarter-finals. The game included the &#8220;Hand of God&#8221; goal &#8211; where Maradona famously punched the ball past Peter Shilton to score.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"Lvi_7AuBTrVCo4tkWAz-_Q\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1229785405\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'Lvi_7AuBTrVCo4tkWAz-_Q',sig:'nDHs5C23MRgUNbBHenPGsOtDmVfOPzXWSysqBvzsSGA=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1229785405',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mayor of Naples, Luigi de Magistris, has confirmed that Napoli&#8217;s San Paolo stadium will be renamed after Diego Maradona, following the Argentine&#8217;s death on Wednesday, November 25. Napoli to Rename Stadium After Death of Club Legend Maradona Maradona Widely Regarded as Napoli&#8217;s Greatest Player The mayor revealed the news on his official Twitter account, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3590,"featured_media":573246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1017,7104,895,7105,136],"class_list":["post-573245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-serie-a","tag-diego-maradona","tag-diego-maradona-death","tag-napoli","tag-san-paolo","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Matt Lee","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3590"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}