A conference on the MSC Divina is scheduled for Thursday 27 June Diego Armando Maradonaor rather on the most sensational negotiation in the history of the world transfer market concluded forty years ago, on 30 June 1984, in a hotel in Barcelona by Corrado Ferlaino And Antonio Julianopresident and general director of that Napoli which, despite having finished the previous championship in 12th place, wanted to dream big and, with a great financial effort, managed to get to the one who had already been designated as the heir of Pele in the football firmament.
At this conference, organized by the journalist Marcello AltamuraFerlaino and Vincenzo Scottiwho forty years ago was the mayor of Naples. Their interventions will be useful to understand how in those days – the negotiations were long, from the beginning of May to the end of June – the forces and powers of the city came together to achieve what was not simply a transfer market objective: Maradona would become the symbol of the redemption of the city.
Ferlaino would never have done it alone. He had to support him within Napoli not only the tenacity of Juliano but also the skills of entrepreneurs who alternated alongside the former captain, general director of the club, in those days, starting with Dino Celentano, on whose boat Maradona the 4 July toasted the arrival in Naples
The engineer knocked on the doors of politics and banks, that is, of mayor Scotti and the CEO of the Banco di Napoli Ferdinand Ventriglia and those doors were opened to politically and financially support an operation made complex by the continuous changes in conditions by Barcelona. That time seems so far away…
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