Returning to the spirit and compactness of last season: Walter Mazzarri today experienced the first day with Napoli with full ranks, after the return of the national team, in view of his second debut on the Azzurri bench in Saturday’s away match at Atalanta. A debut on which the weight of the various injured people weighs heavily, whose employment remains in doubt, and which will be followed by even more convincing commitments with Real Madrid, Inter and Juventus. Days of emotion for the return to Castel Volturno but also of evaluation for the recovery of the stars, starting with Osimhen, whose muscles are ready to go to Bergamo but who could start the match on the bench. Mazzarri is aware of the expectations: De Laurentiis wants a place in the next Champions League, but above all the fans are demanding a strong response from the players after the inglorious farewell to Garcia.
“It was the coach who paid but let it be clear to every player. Winning the tricolor does not give you impunity”, says the banner that the Curva A ultras hung at Maradona last night, expressing the strong disappointment of the fans. Today Olivera, Raspadori, Di Lorenzo, Elmas and Politano returned, while only part of the session and then training for Osimhen, Zielinski and Meret who remain in doubt. Mazzarri works a lot, he knows he can’t afford any missteps and wants to demonstrate that he’s up to speed with football despite the 10 years that have passed since he made Naples dream.
Fabio Cannavaro also talks about the need to keep up, who today showed the old Centro Paradiso where he trained with Maradona’s Napoli as a Primavera, a structure that the world champion purchased to rebuild it and open an academy. Meanwhile, Cannavaro continues to be a coach, as he has done for ten years, the same time in which Mazzarri has been away from Naples: “football changes every year – he explains – and whoever doesn’t update himself stays behind, because today compared to before everything on the pitch you also study thanks to artificial intelligence that gives you the statistics. Today it is no longer customary to do training on pen and paper but you have to have the computer, adequate staff and the drone that films the team. There is a nice circus that helps the coach. Then of course in the end what remains for a coach is having to try to convey ideas to the team.” Cannavaro thinks that Napoli can start to enjoy themselves again and win: “Playing in a row against Atalanta, Real, Inter and Juventus is tough for anyone, because we are talking about difficult teams to face, who are already well-tested and fighting for the scudetto – underlines Cannavaro – But I think that Napoli is still strong and certainly the pride of the champions must come out in the end, because I can’t think that the team I saw against Empoli is that of the players who won the championship a few months ago. “. Encouragement also came from another ex: Lorenzo Insigne arrived in Castel Volturno to greet the team and wish Mazzarri good luck, the coach with whom he made his debut.
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2023-11-22 18:49:52
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