VIDEO CONFERENCE – Spalletti: “I’m leaving for an authentic act of love, I don’t intend to face Napoli as an opponent, my tattoo is forever”
<!– –>
CASTEL VOLTURNO (CE) – Luciano Spalletti, coach of Napoli, spoke in the Press Conference on the eve of the match against Sampdoria. Here is what highlighted by “Naples Magazine”.
– First he has to say something…
“I thank everyone I met in 2 unforgettable years. I thank our fans all over the world, all the children who embraced me filling me with their blue love. Thanks to the coaching staff, employees and collaborators, doctors, thanks to the president and to everyone”.
– What’s the point of hugging ADL?
“I don’t want division, either him or you. I don’t want someone canceling the other. We’ve all worked very well. This championship has been a triumph”.
– If you were to give advice to your successor, what would it be?
“I have no possibility of giving advice to others. Advice is asked for, but it is not sought in the words of others. I can’t advise who to take”.
– Three things you take away from this Scudetto victory?
“I would like to have three. I told the team during the year that we would see a city explode with joy. For months I talked about something I didn’t know the real imagination of. Naples must be lived, not imagined. I have always been a I’m a bit Neapolitan, I needed these two years to become completely Neapolitan. I’m taking a patinus for the sea. I’m taking a horse, which reminds me of my footballers who trotted. And a crucifix for faith”.
– Is there a question you wish you had?
“I more or less always think about the possible answers and I say them regardless of the questions. I have a few notes. The scars, the pain…”.
– After which game did you think you could win the Scudetto?
“It’s crucial to have a strong mentality, with a group of players who are friends. Nothing interesting was done this morning on the opposing team, but we trained with mental strength, quality and character. Napoli will have a great future. I hear it takes time to forge and create an understanding.”
– Simeone said he made him grow as a footballer… Did he falter on his choice?
“We embraced as we always do, it’s the hardest thing to overcome. Then comes the thought to understand if you’ve done well or badly. In these days, starting to imagine myself away from Naples, I realized how difficult it is to get to take this decision. Sometimes the heart tells you to continue, because the team has the foundations for further improvement. The love I feel around me helped me make the choice.”
– The mayor wants to give you honorary citizenship…
“I am pleased. I am honoured. I hope to return to my friends in Naples in 10 years time too”.
– What is your idea of football after the Neapolitan experience?
“The truth always lies somewhere in the middle. The goal was to make the players understand that they know how to interpret many things even on their own. The total area like someone carries forward is not good. We are the best attack, for now the best defense. For the best it is difficult to admit that we were the best and everything went wrong for the others”.
– What remains of Naples, the best moment and the most difficult?
“The good moment was in Udine, with the championship victory. The difficult moment was that of Empoli which we were winning and we made up for it”.
– When did you realize that your adventure in Naples was over?
“At the dinner with the president we had to settle everything in a quarter of an hour, even disturbed by the goodness of the food. And that was it, then I let the president say so. I’m not one to change my mind so easily. If I leave now it’s a authentic act of love. I gave everything I had. I no longer have the energy to live up to what one loves. Those who don’t come to the press conference don’t have courage”.
– Georgians support Napoli, Kvara was praised…
“Kvara was talked about by the observers. We had to replace a very strong footballer like Insigne. We needed something similar in terms of characteristics. Giuntoli pulled him out of the various names. I played 5 years in Russia, the president was perplexed as to where he came from, I I phoned a couple of times, I inquired and gave my ok. That’s how it works when you take a footballer. Then he was even better at putting more stuff in. Giuntoli was good at identifying him. and the club was good at buying him. He’s a professional, he widened his eyes to understand, I’ve seen him make chases, tackles that have never been made. Kvara has an enormous sweetness in touching the ball “doce, doce”. He’s very strong. He approaches Maradona in the way he plays.”
– Is the Coppa Italia your only regret?
“When I arrived, the president told me he didn’t give a damn about the Italian Cup and we took him at his word. We had to finish in the top 4 and put the club’s accounts in order. ADL was good at take responsibility. We rearranged many things. We did 4 years in 2. I learned to be even a little more entrepreneurial. The president already knew about football.”
– Do you give us training?
“I don’t know all of it. Demme and Olivera haven’t trained. Mario Rui has returned from a couple of training sessions. I’d like those who played more often to be more present in the match. It will be similar to the one who played more often”.
– What message do you want to give to Napoli supporter children?
“We thank all the children who have filled me with their blue future. I have friends who come from all over the world for the party. It is a happiness that has done well all over the world”.
– Napoli has a tattoo on his arm, should your club need you, would you come back in a year? Or is it also contemplated not to train yet during the sabbatical year?
“I don’t want to play against Napoli. I don’t want to wear tracksuits that are different from Napoli’s. That’s what I immediately said at that dinner with De Laurentiis. We start from there, then at the end of the year we inventory of what are the stimuli, the feelings, the thoughts and we look at where we are. This year I came off the bench and walked about twenty meters, opened the grandstand gate and watched Napoli from there. You can see it on television too good all the same. Those who love football always do it, even away from home and with Napoli you always play at home. There are beautiful scars that everyone carries with them, like the one I have on my arm. I got it on my arm to get it always under my eyes, to always look at it. This tattoo will be my beautiful scar. They have already begun to offend me in some stations (laughs, ed.)”.
– Closing on Giulia Tramontano…
“She was a huge fan of Napoli. Men who kill a woman confess their cowardice. With her wickedness, she erased a story that deserved to be lived. Let’s imagine the mother and son go to Maradona, they will be with us at the stadium. Anyone who thinks of solving things with violence is a loser with no future”.
Antonio Petrazzuolo
Napoli Magazine
Reproduction of the text permitted provided the source is cited: www.napolimagazine.com
<!– –>
