Napoli, now the scudetto party. But Conte's decision weighs on the future

The city is preparing for the celebrations with the open-top bus and the players, waiting to understand what the coach will decide for next season

A night of celebration and tears in Naples , for the fourth Scudetto of the Azzurri. Antonio Conte 's team won the Serie A 2024-25 after the success in the last match against Cagliari and now prepares the celebrations in the city with the open bus. With a big question mark over the future of the coach, which the protagonists also spoke about in the post-match.

"This is a scugnizzo championship, after all Conte comes from the South. He has a house in Turin but he is still someone from the South and he had a team of blue-haired scugnizzi" said Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis , adding regarding the coach's contract that "coaches have their own personality, which must be respected and they should never be forced. Even if there are ironclad contracts. Naples is Naples and deserves respect ".

Naples, what future for Conte?

Conte also spoke about what is to come, before letting himself go in the celebrations: "We are enjoying everything, I have an excellent relationship with the president. Even with the family, we had the opportunity this year to get to know each other, I got to know him and he got to know me. Now we are all celebrating together, we are two winners, maybe in different ways but we are two winners ."

Naples, scudetto celebration in the city

For Conte, there will now be reason to celebrate a historic and unexpected title. With a celebration destined to last a long time, at least until Monday 26 May , when at 3 pm the open-top bus with the team will parade along the city's seafront, greeting the fans. "The buses - explained the mayor of the city Gaetano Manfredi - will parade from the Luise pier to Piazza Vittoria, there and back, on Monday afternoon at 3 pm. We will have around one hundred thousand seats available and four giant screens in the squares for those who cannot get in".

Last night, thousands poured into the streets of the city, especially in Piazza del Plebiscito. Flags and smiles, smoke bombs, blue wigs, no public order problems. A party that grew in intensity minute after minute. Especially kids with the number 10 shirt: they haven't seen Maradona, over 30 years have passed, but the plot came from parents, relatives, in the smallest details and the cult is fully observed. Antonio Conte, Scott McTominay, of course. The chants that are heard every 15 days at the Maradona stadium. But it is the blue shirt that the fans in the streets of the center feel like a second skin. A question of identity.

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