Antônio de Oliveira Filho, better known as Careca, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a forward.
Società Sportiva Calcio Napoli, commonly referred to as Napoli, is an Italian professional football club based in the city of Naples that plays in Serie A, the top flight of Italian football. Napoli has won three Serie A titles, six Coppa Italia titles, two Supercoppa Italiana titles, and one UEFA Cup. The club was formed in 1926 as Associazione Calcio Napoli following the merger of U.S. Internazionale Napoli and Naples Foot-Ball Club. Napoli saw relatively little success in its early years, winning their first major trophy in the 1962 Coppa Italia. Napoli then saw increased success in the late 1970s and especially in the 1980s, after the club acquired Diego Maradona in 1984. During his time in Naples, Maradona helped the team win several trophies, which led to the club retiring his number 10 jersey. During this period, Napoli won two league titles, the 1987 Coppa Italia, the 1990 Supercoppa Italiana, and their only European trophy with the 1989 UEFA Cup. Following his departure, however, Napoli struggled financially, and endured several relegations and a bankruptcy, prior to being re-founded in 2004 by film producer Aurelio De Laurentiis. Under his leadership, the club has stabilized, which has led to renewed on-field success, winning 2005–06 Serie C1, the 2012, 2014, and 2020 Coppa Italia titles, and the 2014 Supercoppa Italiana, eventually culminating in their third league title in 2023, the first since Maradona's departure.
Paolo Cannavaro is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. After beginning his career with Napoli, he moved to Parma in 1999, where he played alongside his older brother Fabio. Paolo remained with the club for seven seasons, aside from a loan spell with Verona during the 2001–02 season, helping the club reach the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup in 2005. In 2006, he returned to Napoli, where he was eventually named the club's captain and contributed to the club's resurgence: he helped the team to earn promotion to Serie A in his first season and subsequently aided his side to qualify for the UEFA Cup in 2008, earn a spot in the Champions League in 2011 and win the Coppa Italia in 2012, the club's first title in over 20 years. After eight seasons with Napoli, he moved to Sassuolo in 2014, where he remained until his retirement in 2017. Following the conclusion of his professional football career, he joined his brother as a member of the team's coaching staff at Guangzhou Evergrande and Benevento.
Fernando De Napoli is an Italian former professional footballer, who played either as a central midfielder or as a winger during the 1980s and 1990s. He is best known in club football for being a regular in the Napoli team that won 4 major trophies in 4 seasons between 1986 and 1990. He then joined Milan who won numerous trophies in his two seasons there although he made less than 10 league appearances when at Milan. At international level, he represented Italy at two FIFA World Cups, and at UEFA Euro 1988.
Germán Gustavo Denis is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a striker for Campionato Sammarinese di Calcio club La Fiorita
Salvatore Bagni is a former Italian footballer who mainly played as a central midfielder. He currently works as a sporting director. Bagni played for several Italian clubs throughout his career, in particular Inter, where he won a Coppa Italia title, and Napoli, where he won a Scudetto-Coppa Italia double. At international level, he represented Italy on 41 occasions, and took part at the 1984 Summer Olympics and the 1986 FIFA World Cup.
Antonio Vojak was an Italian footballer who played as a striker or midfielder. His playing career was played out during the 1920s and 1930s.
Luís Vinícius de Menezes, more famously known as Vinício is a professional football player, who played as a centre forward. Although he is a Brazilian, Vinício played his entire career in Italy, and because of this, he was excluded from the Brazil national side, in a similar manner to José Altafini; unlike Altafini, however, Vinício chose not to play for the Italian national side. Following his professional footballing career, he later became a manager, who became known for introducing tactics based on Dutch total football in Italy.
Alberto "Albertino" Bigon is an Italian football manager and former player, who played as a midfielder or forward.
Giuseppe Savoldi is an Italian former professional football player and coach, who played during the sixties, seventies and eighties, as a forward. A versatile attacker, he played club football in Italy for Atalanta, Bologna and S.S.C. Napoli, and represented the Italy national side at international level.
Edoardo Reja is an Italian professional football manager and former player who was most recently the manager of Slovenian club Gorica.
Marek Hamšík is a Slovak former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
Lorenzo Insigne is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a winger for Major League Soccer club Toronto FC.
Maurizio Sarri is an Italian professional football manager who is the current manager of Serie A club Lazio.
Kalidou Koulibaly is a professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Saudi Professional League club Al Hilal and captains the Senegal national team.
Allan Marques Loureiro, commonly known as Allan Marques, or simply Allan, is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Emirati club Al Wahda.
Jorge Luiz Frello Filho, known as Jorginho, is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Premier League club Arsenal and the Italy national team. He operates as a defensive midfielder or a deep-lying playmaker, also known as a regista in Italian football.
Piotr Sebastian Zieliński is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Serie A club Napoli and the Poland national team. During his senior career he has also played for Udinese and Empoli.
Giovanni Di Lorenzo is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Serie A club Napoli, which he captains, and the Italy national team.
Amadou Diawara is a Guinean professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Belgian First Division A club Anderlecht and the Guinea national team.
