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A POTHEOSIS is the glorification of a subject to a divine level.
Now rewind back to 2019 and I’m walking through the mazy back streets of Naples - on every wall there’s a portrait of the late, great Diego Maradona. On every corner, a stall selling the Napoli legend’s iconic Number 10 jersey. Even a pizza shop has named a pizza after the great man himself, but for Neapolitans Maradona isn’t just the club’s best player or their former league-winning captain - he is a god to the city of Naples and is...