Victor Osimhen has been scoring the goals that look increasingly likely to lead Napoli to a third Scudetto, but he has insisted legendary Diego Maradona has done more for the Naples club.
“I don’t consider myself as an icon yet until I achieve the objective which the club has set itself for this season,” Osimhen said while picking up an award in Rome.
However, if Napoli win the scudetto, he said: “I think [I] have a very big chance of being named an icon.”
But, he quickly added: “It wouldn’t compare to what Maradona has done for this club.”
Maradona inspired Napoli to win the Scudetto in the 1986/87 season at the height of the tension between the North and South Italy over economic development.
The club’s home ground has been named after him following his death.
Naples are already getting ready for a big victory party with three million guests when they land a third championship.
“It’s been 33 years since the last Scudetto,” Napoli President Aurelio De Laurentiis said.
Another title “could make the city go crazy, I think it is already going crazy and planning [a party] which could involve two or three million people,” he added.
