Injuries complicated Giovanni Simeone, but the Argentine striker was part of a historic season for Napoli with the Serie A title included, after 33 years, which celebrated on Sunday with a 2-0 win over Sampdoria at home for the last date. The 'Cholito' nailed a barbaric goal and made a Maradonian celebration, to keep Diego Armando Maradona present, as in every corner of the city of Southern Italy.
The title of the 'Scudetto', for the third time in its history and first since the death of the '10', could not end the story without a happy ending, although the least this Sunday was the result.
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Thinking more about the after party than the match itself, a meeting between two antagonistic teams during the campaign, between the anticipated champion and the first relegated of the year, the coach Luciano Spalletti came out with everything to also say goodbye with a victory, because he will not continue on the Neapolitan bench.
The match passed in a distributed domain and with the peace of mind of both teams knowing that they had nothing to lose. But if there is someone who does not understand letting go, it is Victor Osimhen. He did not stop looking for the goal insistently throughout the match until in the 62nd minute he was brought down inside the area.
The referee pointed penalty and everyone in the Diego Armando Maradona knew that the launch had an owner. Osimhen did not hesitate and successfully converted to put a match on track that sentenced 'Cholito' Simeone shortly after, in the 85th minute, with a shoe from outside the area that he placed in the angle.
A goal that closed the season and celebrated by showing on his chest an old Napoli shirt, with Maradona's 10 on his back. It was his ninth goal, fourth in Serie A, and that made him end with a smile a year in which he had also started with so much in his debut in the Champions League.
Napoli ended their season with victory on a day in which the most important thing, again, will be the party of an entire city that is at the top of Italy after 33 years of waiting.