Napoli's Top-10 All-Time Leading GoalScorers

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#2 - Diego Armando Maradona, 115 Goals | 1984-1991

NAPOLI DIEGO MARADONA
DIEGO MARADONA, NAPOLI.

El Pibe de Oro, The Golden boy.

That nickname stuck with him throughout his glamorous years of professional football, but it was during his Napoli years, that the world witnessed Diego Maradona at his bewitching best.

The envy of all mankind, and the yardstick by which all playmakers are measured for eternity.

In the wake of an injury and controversy-plagued Barcelona career, the advanced playmaker joined Napoli in a then world record fee of £6.9million. At the time, Neapolitans had their fair share of socio-economic challenges, but the people believed that their messiah had finally arrived -they weren't under illusions, Diego Maradona didn't solve all their problems, but as captain and top scorer, the Argentine proved the perfect therapy for whatever Gli Azzurri supporters endured in their personal lives

Is it coincidence or by natural design, that while he plied his trade with Napoli, Diego Maradona inspired success at both club and country? Helping Napoli win the Scudetto in the same calendar year he won the world cup for Argentina?

After spurring the Neapolitans to their first ever Scudetto in 1987, The World Cup winner finished the 1987/88 Serie A season as Capocannoniere with 15 goals as the little donkeys finished second behind Arrigo Sacchi's mesmerizing Milan side.

In what is believed to be his fourth and final season with Napoli, the talismanic captain put the cherry on the icing, notching sixteen goals en route the club's first and only domestic double.

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