Airport closed during Napoli's Scudetto celebrations

Diego Maradona's achievements for Napoli are still alive in the memories of the fans today. In the six seasons the club spent with Maradona, it won five trophies, whereas in its first sixty years it had won only two. His face still appears on the city's walls.

Enzo Demme moved from Italy to Germany at the age of seven and built a career that reached as far as the 3. Bundesliga. Even during the 15-month ban he received for cocaine use, he kept his loyalty to Napoli and Maradona. He named his son Diego.

Diego Demme played for Arminia Bielefeld and Paderborn before leading RB Leipzig from the third tier to the Champions League. As captain, he came closest to a trophy in the 2018/19 DFB Pokal Final, but the final was lost to Bayern Munich. While Leipzig were at the top of the Bundesliga, Demme chose Napoli, then in crisis, in January 2020. As a midfielder, he played an important role in winning the 2019/20 Coppa Italia, ending the club's six-year wait for a trophy.

Napoli rose in the 2022/23 season from seventh place to fifth, then to third, and finally to first. The Scudetto was secured with five matches to spare. In 2020, pandemic restrictions kept the fans at home; this time the streets filled with celebrations. Demme said that after the win at Udinese, they flew back to Naples and the airport was closed because there were too many people there. He said they moved to the military airport, where the crowds were also very dense.

Napoli fans had wondered for 33 years after Maradona whether such success would ever come again. They found the answer 30 months after Maradona's death.