Largo Maradona

This guide to Largo Maradona in Naples opens with a puzzle: why a twenty-three-year-old waiter named Mario Filardi spent two nights on a ladder painting a wall after Napoli's 1990 league title. It follows him working through the dark by borrowed car headlights, sketching Diego Maradona's face from a single photograph and whatever paint the local fan club could scrape together. The fan club leader parked cars beneath the wall just to keep the headlights trained on it.