The match is the biggest of the season for the two competitors, with the Giallorossi looking to put pressure on their Neapolitan rivals for a place in the group stages of the Champions League for next season.
A television audience as large as a billion people could be watching the fixture across all inhabited continents, according to Napoli. From Albania to Zimbabwe, audiences will be clamouring to see the likes of Gonzalo Higuain and Mohamed Salah battling it out for victory.
Two of the world’s least populated countries, tiny island nations Nauru and Tuvalu, are included on the list of expected viewers for the Derby della Sole.
South Sudan, the world’s newest sovereign state having been formed in 2011, are also expected to be glued to television sets and mobile phones as the game kicks off at 16:00 their time.
This article originally appeared on Gazzetta World.
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