Diego Armando Maradona sent a message to the Napoli squad ahead of their Scudetto showdown with Juventus.
It kicks off on Saturday at 19.45 GMT, click here for a match preview.
The Partenopei haven’t won the Scudetto since Maradona’s era and he is cheering them on from his home in Dubai.
Sky Sport Italia report he even called up the squad at their training retreat the day before the big game to fire up the troops.
Diego Armando Maradona sent a message to the Napoli squad ahead of their Scudetto showdown with Juventus.
It kicks off on Saturday at 19.45 GMT, click here for a match preview.
The Partenopei haven’t won the Scudetto since Maradona’s era and he is cheering them on from his home in Dubai.
Sky Sport Italia report he even called up the squad at their training retreat the day before the big game to fire up the troops.
Dries Mertens published a photograph on Twitter of Maradona holding up his Napoli jersey, while former kit chief Tommaso Starace did the same with Lorenzo Insigne’s shirt.
Sky Sport Italia then showed video of El Pibe de Oro singing the song that has become an anthem at Napoli this season, adjusting the lyrics to say “We’ll put three past Juve.”
Before that, goalkeeper Pepe Reina’s family met Maradona at an event and the Argentine warned “you have to turn down every offer, because you’ll never find love and affection like Napoli.”