Diego Armando Maradona on
Wednesday visited his old team Napoli in their training camp
near Naples.
The Argentina legend met coach Maurizio Sarri and his men and
accepted the club's invitation to travel to Madrid with them for
the opening leg of their Champions League last 16 tie with Real
Madrid on February 15.
"Today I felt a Napoli player again," said the soccer great,
who led Napoli to two scudetti in his glory years in the late
1980s.
"Diego told us he has accepted President (Aurelio) De
Laurentiis's invitation and he'll come to Madrid with us,"
Napoli tweeted.
On Monday Maradona was the guest of honour at Naples' iconic
San Carlo opera house at an anniversary celebration of the
Azzurri's first scudetto in 1987. He also led them to a second
one in 1990.
De Laurentiis said the Argentina legend could become Napoli's
ambassador to the world while Mayor Luigi de Magistris said he
would be made an honorary citizen of the southern Italian city
where he is venerated.
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