Piazza in city’s Spanish Quarter fills with red smoke, tears and giant screenings of footballer’s greatest moments
‘Tonight a piece of Naples has died forever’ says Antonio Esposito as he stares through his tears at the 20ft mural of Diego Maradona overlooking his local piazza in the Spanish Quarter in central Naples.
He can barely muster the energy to speak. Minutes earlier, the news of the legendary Argentinian footballer’s death was announced live in the middle of a popular national television chat show, prompting hundreds of mourners to take to the streets to commemorate the king of football and their adopted king of Naples.
