Maradona's legacy is still alive. His ex, Claudia Villafañe, and his daughters Giannina and Dalma, will be celebrating the Argentine icon's career with a tour through Italy, an important location for Maradona's peerless career.
© Getty Images"La Claudia es la que nos lleva," is the tour's official slogan, which translates to "Claudia is taking us." It's a reference to Villafañe, the mother of Giannina and Dalma, and Maradona's first girlfriend. As of this writing, Maradona is known to have fathered eight kids.
The tour will take place from September 13th through the 22nd, and is being organized by the company of Guido Pella, a retired tennis player. The tour is billed as an experience that follows "in Diego's footsteps," exploring the roots of some of Maradona's most notorious soccer feats, like taking Napoli to win its first title in 1987, and defeating Italy in the World Cup semifinals in 1990.
© Corbis via Getty ImagesThe tour will have an availability of 25 people, with guests paying $6,390 for a 10-day experience. The price doesn't include the plane tickets, but organizers are banking on guests wanting to spend time wth the most important women in Maradona's life.
"We'll explore Rome, Milan, and Naples with a mix of devotion, happiness, nostalgia, and madness," reads the tour, as reported by the Spanish publication El Mundo. "We'll cheer with wine and tears. We'll scream for goals that have already passed as if they were happening right now. And we'll return changed, because this trip is not to see, it's to feel."
"We'll sing, laugh, cry. Look up inside a church and think that maybe he's there too. Italy and soccer. Claudia will take us. The one who lived with Maradona when he was a boy from Villa Fiorito. The one who knows more than anyone else and who came to share. Not as a star, but as someone who also misses him."
© Getty ImagesMore details about the tour
The tour will include four nights in Rome, two in Milan, and three in Naples. It highlights a packed itinerary of activities, including a welcome dinner, tickets to a match between Roma and Torino at the Olympic Stadium, a visit to the Colosseum, the Roman Forum, a tour through the Vatican, museum visits, and stops by the Fontana di Trevi and more.
The experience comes five years after Maradona's death. The soccer icon died of a heart attack in Argentina at the age of 60. His death continues to be investigated, with some prosecutors claiming that it could have been avoided and was due to medical malpractice.
