These days the name of Pietro Puzone made noise again in Italy and also in Argentina. This is a former Napoli forward, who he was champion with Diego Maradona in the 1986/87 season, and which is currently going through a delicate situation: He was living on the street after suffering addictions that led him down a path that he regrets today. Pietro is already in a clinic, hoping to recover, doing some self-criticism, but focused on what you can get ahead.
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Puzone is from Acerra, a city that does not reach 60,000 inhabitants, located just over 20 kilometers northeast of Naples. After a decade-long career in Italian clubs, Pietro returned to his homeland and there the weight of addictions, which he had since before retiring, took its toll. A few days ago they found him living on the street, as a homeless person. In this days he was admitted to a clinic and said: “I ended up like this because of me. I want to recover.”
Acerra, that town that in the past was conquered by Romans and later became part of the Kingdom of Naples, can give itself the pleasure of being one of the cities that saw Maradona play. Back in 1984, in Diego’s first days in Napoli, Puzone himself organized a game for the benefit of a child who had to undergo surgery for a palate disease. They needed to raise money for that boy to have his surgery.
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Maradona playing in the mud.
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Pietro was already part of Napoli and had a good relationship with Maradona. Diego did not hesitate: beyond Corrado Ferlaino’s refusal, president of the club and who did not want to risk the Argentine jewel that has just arrived from Barcelona, on the 10th he went and played at Stadio Comunale di Acerra. In the middle of the mudyeah This stadium had ccapacity for 5 thousand people, but there were more than 12 thousand, many with their cars behind the arches. Total revolution.
Diego’s team wore the Napoli shirt, although the club did not enable that friendly. I did not want to risk raw material on a playing field that was more than complicated. Maradona was the same: you had to help, and he was going to do it. I know they needed 20 million liras at that time and 10 contributed 15 million. The rest was completed with the collection.
Maradona playing in the mud.
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Diego took the game seriously, so much so that nailed two 4-0 goals on Acerrana, the rival, the homeowner, and one of the many went to gambeta: passed rivals and mud. LAlo Maradona and Puzone were part of their team. Acerra had a lot of what Diego lived in Villa Fiorito. So, and for Pietro, he did not hesitate to lend a hand. The left-handed.
