Love for his Naples football team betrayed the hideout of a longtime fugitive, who was captured while riding a moped on a Greek island, Italian police have said. Naples-based Carabinieri paramilitary police said Vincenzo La Porta, who was on Italy’s list of 100 most dangerous fugitives, was spotted in a photo of fans in a restaurant in Corfu, who were celebrating after the Napoli football squad clinched Italy’s top league championship a few weeks ago. Police then went to Corfu to tail the 60-year-old fugitive, who had been on the run for 11 years. They did not specify when he was arrested but said officers blocked him going down a Corfu street on a moped. Greek police later said he was arrested on Friday. La Porta, who is thought to have links to the Naples-based Camorra syndicate, has been convicted in absentia of criminal association, tax evasion and fraud, the police said. According to the owner of a different restaurant on the island, La Porta had been working there as an assistant chef for the last month or so. Police in Corfu said he appeared before a prosecutor on Saturday and was ordered to be held in jail until a panel of appeals court judges rules on the extradition request. Italy is seeking extradition so he can serve a prison sentence of 14 years and four months. It was not immediately clear whether La Porta had a lawyer. Police said they had been following La Porta’s online activity, including financial movements, and waited for him to make a false move that could tip them off on his location. “Betraying him was his passion for soccer and for the Napoli team,” police said in a statement. “With the championship victory, La Porta couldn’t resist celebrating.” Investigators spotted him in a photo of people celebrating in the restaurant, where he was holding in his hands a scarf in the sky-blue colours of his home town team.