We had to aim straight at the heart of the coach Naples, Luciano Spallettito receive your word this Monday of football hangover and mild emotional mourning. After the 1-1 draw with Salernitana he left on the pitch apnea to the Neapolitans about to shout “Champions of Italy!”, Spalletti didn’t wake up wanting to give speaking lessons. Quite the opposite.
It was ten in the morning in this rainy Naples when the coach entered the hotel with his family majesticin the historical center of the city, for breakfast.
And while they were setting a table for eight, he meekly indulged in the ritual of the two, three selfies with hotel employees and some guests who recognized him.
“I’m not going to talk”he kindly replied clarion when we went after a statement from the technical director that the third is about to hang on the chest of all Napoli shield33 years after the last one, obtained with Diego Maradona in the team.
-Tell me, at least, how did you sleep last night…
-How did you sleep?
-More or less. And you?
-As soon as I woke up, I was fine. When I woke up, a little worse. It would have been better if she had continued to sleep. As I slept during the night, I was fine because I was unaware. Instead when I opened my eyes and regained consciousness, bad. Because I wanted to win that match (Napoli-Salernitana, which would have been the crowning of the champion).
After this confession, Spalletti crossed his arms over his chest and asked not to continue the speech.
-I can’t say more. The club’s press office won’t let me.
-But you know well what Napoli, the club that Diego loved so much, means for the Argentines…
Right there, the top-grossing manager of this season in the Italian Serie A loosened up…
-What do you want me to say?
-How did you feel on Sunday?
– We’re sorry we couldn’t give this joy to all Napoli lovers, but it will probably happen in the next matches. Thank you for filling the stadium with blue like yesterday. It was a beauty to have witnessed that show that we will always carry with us.
Spalletti didn’t want to say anything else. He nodded and fixed his eyes on the cappuccino with the bills waiting for him on the table.
Napoli woke up this Monday more serene. Even if the beer bottles placed on some monuments, whole or in pieces, betrayed the party that overflowed the districts of the center and the suburbs.
As if it were necessary to purify everything to start from scratch and put energy into Udinese-Napoli on Thursday, the morning drizzle turned into pouring rain during the day. The image was that of a city that needed to let off steam after a hectic weekend to celebrate a triumph that makes itself desired.
It has been raining since Sunday when, at dusk, on the Castel dell’Ovo, that castle at the foot of the Gulf of Naples where legend has it that the poet Virgil hid an egg on which the fortune of the place depended, a projected “Thank you guys” (“Thanks guys”) huge directed at Spalletti’s team.
With the rain some of the victorious saves that thanked and praised the Napoli players faded away. It sounded like they had been crying.
On the steps of the city’s cathedral, there where the blood of San Gennaro miraculously becomes liquid three times a year, the Neapolitans who went to mass trampled, without even realizing it, a sticky portrait of Naples 9, Victor Osimhen, which some devotees stuck looking towards the cathedral. Perhaps as a cabal.
Naples Italy. Special Correspondent.
Source: Clarin
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