Napoli have won the Serie A title after a 33-year gap and Gazzetta dello Sport has produced a story to illustrate how much has changed in the world since Diego Maradona was in charge of the Azzurri.

On Thursday night, Napoli won the third title in the history of the club: 1987, 1990 and 2023.

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April 29, 1990: Baroni’s header helps Napoli beat Lazio to win their second ever Scudetto. 33 years later, Spalletti’s side are preparing for a third after a dominant season. But how has the world changed since Napoli last won the title?

Heads of state

In 1990, the President of the Republic was Francesco Cossiga. Giulio Andreotti, leader of the Christian Democratic Party, was prime minister. In February of that year, Nelson Mandela was released and returned to the leadership of the African National Congress, the party he helped found to fight apartheid. In America, George W. Bush was about to enter his second year as US president before handing over to Bill Clinton in 1993. Ivan Paul II became the Pope, and Mikhail Gorbachev, the president of the Soviet Union, received the Nobel Peace Prize.

Technology

However, technology has changed the way we live the most over the past 33 years. The birth of the World Wide Web dates back to 1991, a year after the blue name. But that’s not all: the first “sms” is dated December 3, 1992, that is, two years later. An event that completely changed the way the world communicates, even before the invention of smartphones, hit the market in 2008, 18 years after that Baroni goal against Lazio to be exact.

Cinema

It is almost impossible to name all cult films that first appeared on the screens in 1990. Sylvester Stallone played the role of Rocky Balboa for the fifth time in “Rocky V”, Johnny Depp played another of his iconic characters in “Edward Scissorhands”. He was only 10 years old when Macaulay Culkin starred in the film “Mother Lost the Plane” and 23 years old when Julia Roberts starred in the famous film “Beauty”, known as the soundtrack of the film “Ghost”, which was released. November 6, 1990.

Music

As in the movies, it is not easy to take away all the successes of that historic year for Naples and beyond. A few months before the success of Blues, Pooh won Sanremo with the song “Uomini Soli”, but the song “Un’estate italiana” by Gianna Nannini with Edoardo Bennato, which is back in fashion after winning the European Championship 2021, is in fashion on the radio. The queen of pop, Madonna, released the single “Vogue” with a famous black and white video, but among the most popular songs was “Vattene Amore”, also known as “Trottolino amoroso”, a chorus made famous by Amedeo Ball and Mietta.

And football

These were years of changes and real revolutions for the football world as well. Serie A, which consisted of 18 teams in 1990, has grown to 20. Since the Covid-19 pandemic, substitutions have increased from three to five, but even here it is technology that has caused the biggest change: the introduction of VAR and goals. -line technology, pure science fiction at the time, violated the very scheme of the game. However, in terms of history, when Napoli added their second title to their record, Brazil had “only” three World Cups compared to Italy, while Real Madrid had “only” six Champions Cups/Champions Leagues, now in he is fourteen, more than doubled” – Gazzetta dello Sport.

Series A standings

1. Naples 80

2. Lazio 64b

3. Juventus Turin 63b

4. Inter 60 years

5. Atalanta 58p

6. Milan 58p

7. A. S. Roma 58 p