Napoli Serie A Champions: Napoli Celebrations: With a draw against Udinese at Dacia Arena, Napoli won the Serie A for the first time in 33 years, setting off wild celebrations in their home city of Naples.They last won the league in 1990 when a team led by Diego Maradona added to their first championship from three years prior. After Sandi Lovric had given Udinese an unexpected lead in the 52nd minute, Victor Osimhen slammed home an equaliser. With five games remaining, Napoli managed to maintain the point they required to capture their third Serie A championship.Follow Serie A LIVE Updates and Scores on InsideSport.IN.
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The two championships won by Napoli previously occurred in 1987 and 1990, under the reigns of Argentina superstar Maradona, in whose honour their stadium is now called. The club experienced financial deterioration, relegation, and insolvency after their heydays; it last competed in Serie C in 2006. Although they have three Coppa Italia victories in the last 11 years, the Scudetto is what Napoli supporters really wanted.
Their game against Udinese was just a footnote. Prior to packing the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona to watch a webcast of the game, Napoli supporters had been having a good time in Naples all day. Over 10,000 supporters made the trip up north to support their team in Udine, but after just 13 minutes they were brought to complete silence when Lovric was given plenty of room in the box before curling the hosts in front.
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The Dacia Arena in Udine witnessed a crowded house of sky blue jerseys despite doing the job away from home, and as the full-time siren sounded, they all flooded onto the pitch. As the streets erupted at home, chaos reigned supreme.
Like the Diego Armando Maradona Stadium, which celebrated the achievement of glory by being completely sold out and filled with flares and smoke bombs. As tattoos and flags filled camera lenses throughout the city, Maradona himself was a recurring element of the tributes.
As fans remembered the great while ascending to the top for the first time since he had led them there, Live Is Life was playing at the stadium bearing his name. Naples’s bay was lit up by fireworks, which started a party that probably lasted well into the night. As Napoli owner Aurelio De Laurentiis entered the pitch with a microphone at full time, there was pure joy in Naples.
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