According to reports, UEFA and CONMEBOL are negotiating with the goal of arranging a friendly match between newly crowned Copa America champions Argentina and newly crowned European champions Italy, one to commemorate Maradona and the other to fill Vacancies for cancelled Confederations Cup matches. Therefore, it is named Maradona Cup, and the competition venue will be located in Naples, the southern Italian city where Maradona lived for many years before his death.
Maradona
Maradona moved from Barcelona to Serie ANapoli club at the age of 24. During his time at Naples, Maradona made 188 appearances, scored 81 goals, and helped Napoli win the team's only two Serie A titles so far in 1987 and 1990, making Maradona one of the most important players in the world. A hero in Neapolitan culture, more known as the "King of Naples".
However, Maradona passed away in 2020. In order to commemorate the former football king, the Naples Club announced that its home stadium San Paolo will be renamed " Diego Maradona Stadium".
This time FIFA wants to host the Maradona Cup to increase their influence. As we all know, the FIFA World Cup is the top event in world football today. However, since the start of the World Cup, the championship and runner-up have been arranged by teams in Europe and South America, so that in the eyes of many fans, Europe and the United States are the World Cup. Although UEFA intends to create a European and American Cup with the South American Football Federation, it can be said that a piece of the FIFA cake is cut away. In theory, Ceferin's European and American Cup and Florentino's European Super League are not essential. The difference is that they want to use their own influence to take a large piece of the cake from the plate of the vested interests. Seeing that its own interests were damaged, FIFA responded quickly, so the Maradona Cup was born.
In fact, no matter what the purpose is, it is very good for fans to enjoy a high-level football game. What's more, the two intercontinental championship teams have a high degree of attention and topicality.
Messi
What's more, the two championship teams are really an epic duel. Although Italy has a lack of stars in the team, the trophy speaks for itself. And Argentina does have the champion team of famous stars such as Messi, Di Maria and so on. The two teams met in the 1990 World Cup semi-final, when Maradona was the captain.
This will definitely be a dream showdown, maybe it is destined somewhere, Argentina is Maradona's hometown, and Italy is where Maradona embarked on the road to the king of football, in Maradona In the year Na went to heaven, the two teams won the Intercontinental Championship respectively. Now the two teams have a friendly match. I believe this is the best way to commemorate Maradona.
I believe that FIFA will also try its best to facilitate this, which is also to let fans see whether the European champion or the American champion is powerful. If the two teams do face each other, will Argentina, with Messi, win, or Italy, with its tenacious solidarity, will win. All are welcome to discuss.
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