No player can outdo Maradona in Napoli, says Victor Osimhen

Victor Osimhen has declared that Diego Maradona’s legacy at Napoli is unimpeachable, and he believes that regardless of what he goes on to achieve with the Partenopei, the late Argentine would remain the greatest player the Naples-based club has ever had.

Although Diego Armando Maradona remains unrivaled in the history of football and Napoli, Osimhen has done enough to near the Argentinean’s myth in Naples.

The 24-year-old led Napoli to their first league title in 33 years, the first since Maradona still plied his trade in the Italian top flight.

The Partenopei’s eternal No.10 is revered on numerous shrines, official or otherwise, and remembered for far more than breaking up the hegemony of the northern giants to inspire the southern underdogs to two Serie A titles and the UEFA club more than three decades ago.

Regarded as the greatest footballer of all time by many all around the globe, but to Argentines and Napoliteans, he is a ‘god’, and for good reasons.

The 1986 World Cup winner inspired the Gli Azzurri to rise above Juventus, Milan, and Inter to win their first-ever league title in 1986/87, with his unparalleled skills, a football genius, unlike anyone before or after.

He repeated the feat three seasons later, winning the Golden Boot as he led Napoli to their second league title.

Many decades later, Osimhen in Maradona’s 1989/90 fashion, led the Naples-based club to the Scudetto while picking up the Capocannoniere with 26 goals.

However, in a conversation with Youtuber Korty, the former Lille striker believes there is no outdoing the legacy of the late Argentine, regardless of what he achieves with the club.

“Maradona for me, is the greatest of all time,” he told Korty.

“There’s nothing any player can do in Napoli that can compare to what Maradona has given to them.”