The tears of Naples for Diego Armando Maradona Photoreportage of the mourning of a city

"La Napoli che piange" is the title of one of the many funeral posters around the city. Naples mourns one of his child, one of those he loved most of all for the emotion he created from the first to the last day of his life in blue. Telling the pain is never easy, but the right photos often arrive where words don't. In the last three days there have been many gathering points where Napoli fans met to celebrate the Pibe de Oro, the man who helped make Naples a cultural and sporting capital. From the Maschio Angioino to the Quartieri Spagnoli, up to the pilgrimage to what will soon officially become the Diego Armando Maradona Stadium.

Gianluca Monti, one of the most authoritative Neapolitan journalists, called Diego "the most important Neapolitan of the last 100 years" and it is the truth. The culture of an entire city owes a lot to one of its main heroes, one of those who - like Pino Daniele, Massimo Troisi and Totò - was and always will be the face of the Neapolitan people.

In the book "Dio ci ha creati gratis. Il Vangelo secondo i bambini di Arzano", Marcello d'Orta collects religious themes carried out by elementary school children. It is strange to see that among the themes there is also Maradona, considered by some children as a divinity. One of the comments - also reported on the back cover - reads: "If Maradona didn't take drugs and didn't say motherfuckers at the World Cup, if he didn't cheat on his wife and trained every day, he could become a saint". Despite man's mistakes, despite everyone knows the dark sides of the best player ever, as good friends, parents and fellow adventurers, the Neapolitans forgive everything to Diego, the new patron of Naples and its people.