Trending: Miccoli vs. Maradona

Fabrizio Miccoli and Diego Maradona have a few things in common.

Miccoli wears No. 10 for Palermo, the same number Maradona famously wore during his playing days in Serie A with Napoli.

Both made names for themselves at unfancied southern Italian clubs, and both were mavericks.

And now this. Check out Miccoli’s stunning strike against Chievo Verona this past weekend:

It bears a striking resemblance to a goal Maradona scored against Hellas Verona 27 years ago:

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