Antonio juliano maradona biography
- Born in Naples on 26 December 1942, Juliano spent the majority of his club career at home-town club Napoli, after coming through their youth ranks; he won two.
- Antonio Juliano, was from the slums of Naples himself.
- Juliano played a key part in Napoli's signing of Diego Maradona in 1984.
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Naples in mourning/ The former captain and the architect who brought Maradona to Italy has passed away
Napoli is mourning the death of Antonio Juliano, former footballer and manager of the Italian club, who passed away at the age of 80 as a result of a serious illness from which he had been suffering for a long time.
The former midfielder and former captain played over 500 games in all competitions for his beloved Napoli between 1962 and 1978.
The team with which he won the Italian Cup (1976). The only team that has won the Cup while being part of Serie B. Meanwhile, he wore the Italian national team jersey 18 times.
Winning the 1968 European Championship with the Blues and being declared world runner-up two years later at the World Cup in Mexico. Then he started his career as a sports director of the heart club.
With Juliano being the person who carried out the historic operation of buying Diego Armando Maradona from Barcelona in 1984.
The summer where one of the most exciting and unforgettable romances in the most beautiful ball game began.
"One of the worst days in the
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Juliano played a key part in Napoli’s signing of Diego Maradona in 1984.
Former Napoli midfielder Antonio Juliano has died at the age of 80, the Serie A side have announced.
Juliano made more than 500 appearances in all competitions for the Partenopei from 1962 to 1978, helping the club win the Coppa delle Alpi, the Coppa Italia and the Anglo-Italian League Cup.
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He retired in 1979 after a season with Bologna and returned to Napoli as sporting director, a role in which he played a key part in the signing of Diego Maradona in 1984.
Former Napoli owner Corrado Ferlaino recalled how the deal was secured in an interview with CBS Sports last year.
“Before my arrival I had sent two of my men to Barcelona to talk with Maradona, his agent and the club,” Ferlaino said.
“Antonio Juliano, a former Napoli player who at the time was a member of our board and with him I sent a businessman as well, Dino Celentano, a friend of mine and a person I could trust for the negotiations.
“The two of them had the task to find an agreement with both
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Diego Maradona: The God of Naples
By Carlo Garganese
Some couples are just meant to be together. None more so than Diego Armando Maradona and SSC Napoli. This was a relationship that had it all. Every possible emotion and feeling. There was unbridled joy and devotion. There was trust and hope. There were so many blissful highs yet also some distressing lows. But, above all else, there was unconditional love that – 35 years on from their first date together – has never wavered.
From day one, Diego immediately felt at home in Naples. He had grown up in extreme poverty in Villa Fiorito, an overpopulated shantytown in the suburbs of Buenos Aires. As Asif Kapadia’s much-anticipated film on Maradona – June 14 in the UK and July 25 in Australia – shows in graphic detail, there was no clean water, no paved roads and the impoverished residents had to labour around the clock just to survive. Maradona’s bricklayer father Don Diego went to work at 4am each day and, in the words of his son, “arrived home dead”.
Maradona would al
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