Maradona jr, controversial farewell to the Napoli United bench: “Players left without food and money” – Football

The experience ended in the worst way Diego Armando Maradona Jr on the bench of Napoli United, a team born in 2009 with the aim of promoting social inclusion through sport through the involvement of asylum seekers and young people at risk of exclusion residing in the metropolitan area of ​​Naples. The son of Pibe de Oro and of Christian Sinagra he had been sitting on the bench of the Eccellenza Campania club since 2021. The resignation came via Instagram: “Four months – he writes – over 100 days without receiving any money. Work and personal relationships have been affected. There are thousands of guys in the team km from home and Napoli United left them without a penny for groceries, without food, in one case even without hot water for several days. I couldn’t resist, I was no longer able to stand still in the face of such injustices. integration, acceptance and leaving people without food is a bit out of place”.

The club: “We recognize Diego’s great professionalism, but it’s a difficult moment”

The club let it be known that it “had to accept the resignation of coach Diego Armando Maradona junior and his staff”, to whom “we acknowledge, in these two years, a great self-sacrifice and great professionalism, especially in a difficult moment, both from the from an organizational and economic point of view, like what we are facing in the last year. From the first to the last day we met people who deeply respect the game of football, who love their job beyond the responsibilities it entails. We wish everyone the best continuation in this world which we all know is difficult but which needs more professionals like them,” concludes Napoli United.