In 1993, Marseille won the European Cup, the predecessor of the Champions League, beating AC Milan so who knows how that story would have ended. Maradona’s autobiography, Guillem Balague’s ‘The Boy, The Rebel, The God’ and Jimmy Burns’ Hand of God’ are consistent in the description of this incident. But bang in the middle of celebrations, Ferlaino told Maradona that he should respect his contract that ran till 1993. (That competition is memorable for a clip of Maradona, bootlaces fluttering and the ball doing his bidding, warming up to Opus’ ‘Live is Life’) Napoli did. Napoli president Corrado Ferlaino had promised to release Maradona if they won the UEFA Super Cup in 1989. Maradona’s annual salary of $12m would be doubled, he would stay in a villa “with a 6000m park for my daughter (Dalma) to run around in, for my family to enjoy, with a swimming pool. How else can you explain that Napoli’s last league title came when Maradona wasn’t even supposed to play for them? To get Maradona to Olympique Marseille, Bernard Tapie had promised riches beyond the imagination of a footballer in the 1980s. No one knew better than Maradona that being famous and “living my life” were like opposite-coloured bishops in chess. “And this is the down payment to be allowed to live my life! I want to live my life, please,” he wrote in El Diego, the autobiography translated into English by Marcela Mora Y Araujo. “This is proof that I know myself better than anyone!,” Maradona screamed after the final whistle. Diego Maradona cheers after the Napoli team clinched its first Italian major league title in Naples(AP)
The only goal came in the seventh minute, central defender Marco Baroni heading home a Diego Maradona free-kick, ending another Italian season shrouded in controversy but also one that heralded the arrival of Gianfranco Zola.
It was at home and after a 1-0 win against Lazio in their last match, the battle with AC Milan having gone down to the wire. On April 29, 1990, Napoli won their second, and so far last, Serie A title.
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