NAPLES, Italy (AP) — Napoli and its fans paid tribute to Diego Maradona on the fifth anniversary of his death.

A video of Maradona was shown on the big screens in the stadium before Napoli’s match against Qarabağ in the Champions League on Tuesday, with the stadium announcer saying: “Napoli wants to remember you with a special video. Five years ago the greatest of all time left us.”

The whole of the stadium chanted “Diego, Diego.”

In the 10th minute — Maradonas shirt number — fans started chanting “there’s only one Maradona” and singing songs about him, at the same time as they waved flags, scarves and team shirts in his honor.

Maradona died of a heart attack at age 60 on Nov. 25, 2020, two weeks after being released from a hospital in Buenos Aires following surgery for a blood clot on

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