Napoli has won the Scudetto. Another great party can begin
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Antonio Conte arrived saying "amma faticà!". He worked hard, he made his men work hard. Now he is celebrating a championship victory that was as unexpected as Luciano Spalletti's was unexpected
The first time he spoke as Napoli coach, Antonio Conte said that "there is only one thing to say, not only to the fans, but to the entire Neapolitan environment: amma faticà!". The second time he spoke as Napoli coach, Antonio Conte stressed that "we must speak little. We do not make proclamations. We keep quiet and pedal . Napoli must erase the tenth place of last championship. I cannot promise victory, but we will be competitive". The third time he spoke as Napoli coach, Antonio Conte suggested that "Napoli is not tenth place, it must be higher". How high they asked him. He smiled and did not answer.
A place in the Champions League was to be expected. Maybe even a Napoli in the top three. Because since the 2011-2012 season, when Antonio Conte sits on the bench of an Italian team it goes like this. Napoli won the Scudetto, another Scudetto, the first under the Antonio Conte brand, the first after the incredible city party to celebrate Luciano Spalletti and his men .
Naples, Anna Maria Ortese said, "is a city of happy flashes and depths of pain, incapable of maintaining a serene floatation in the gulf of life".
Napoli, after celebrating their first Scudetto after the Maradona era, became the nemesis of the winning team they had been just a few months earlier. They suffered the abandonment of Luciano Spalletti, aware that repeating the unthinkable was impossible.
Almost cinematically, Aurelio De Laurentiis staged the farce of Napoli as champion of Italy. A terribly ugly representation of the very pleasant show that made Naples dance, sing, have fun, dream for days, weeks, even months . Indeed, that makes people dance again. A necessary plunge to rebuild, to abandon figures who had dared to put him aside in the scene. Almost as if to say: if I have to take a step aside, I will be the one to decide.
Aurelio De Laurentiis, a half step to the side from the center of the scene, has decided to do it for real. He has placed the saintly miracle worker, that Antonio Conte who wherever he goes would like to be a coach, a sports director, a technical director and also a player and, while he is at it, also a president. However, Antonio Conte is very good at being a coach, so anyone can forgive him for everything else.
In the Neapolitan theatrical performance, it all started as a farce. Antonio Conte's first Napoli was pelted by Hellas Verona at the Bentegodi. But in such a brazen and sad way that the suspicion immediately arose that the coach had decided to lose that match to challenge the club that was a bit tight-fisted when it came to reinforcements. The purchases, the ones Antonio Conte had asked for, arrived and Napoli began to win. Even after the farewell to the team and the city, tormented and tormenting, even farcical, of Khvicha Kvaratskhelia , right in the middle of the season that would have officially sanctified him in Naples. Aurelio De Laurentiis had indeed taken a step to the side, but he still wanted his place on the scene .
Antonio Conte celebrated a new scudetto. Naples is ready to experience a new, very long party. Antonio Conte is perhaps already fed up with this "wonderful Neapolitanness". Perhaps he will go elsewhere. Perhaps he will follow in Luciano Spalletti's footsteps. Perhaps he also suspects that Anna Maria Ortese was right.
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