Spalletti returns to Maradona on 7 December, honoured last year | OneFootball

Exactly two years after the ceremony for the awarding of honorary citizenship, Luciano Spalletti will return to Naples on December 7th. This time, however, he will not be wearing the blue tracksuit with which he lifted a historic championship trophy to the sky after 33 long years, but rather the Juventus tracksuit, as an opponent for the match at the Diego Armando Maradona between the blues and the bianconeri.

Naples, on December 7th Spalletti will return to the Maradona: on that day in 2023 he received honorary citizenship

Football and life can sometimes be really strange. This is the case with Luciano Spalletti, the current coach of Juventus, who will soon return to the Diego Armando Maradona Stadium to challenge his "beloved" Naples, with whom, in the 2022/2023 football season, he won a historic championship, thus entering the hearts of many Neapolitan fans. Even today, despite moving to the fierce rival Juventus, the coach from Certaldo is remembered with much love and esteem by many (though not all) blue fans.

The date of Luciano Spalletti's return to the Maradona Stadium is set for next December 7th, the day when Juventus will visit Naples for the fourteenth day of the Serie A Enilive 2025/2026 championship. Coincidentally, on December 7th, 2023, the year of the historic victory, Luciano Spalletti received honorary citizenship of the Neapolitan city from the Mayor, Gaetano Manfredi, as a recognition of merit and attachment to the place. In short, a strange twist of fate, which will put Luciano Spalletti face to face with his beloved past on the date he became an honorary citizen of Naples.

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