It was necessary to aim straight for the heart of the
Napoli
coach ,
Luciano Spalletti
, to get a word from him on
this Monday of football hangover and slight emotional mourning
.
After the 1-1 draw with Salernitana that left the Neapolitans in
apnea
about to shout "Champions of Italy!",
Spalletti did not wake up wanting to give oratory lessons.
Quite the opposite.
It was ten in the morning in this rainy Naples when the technician entered the Majestic
hotel with his family
, in the historic center of the city, to have breakfast.
And while they set up a table for eight, he meekly indulged in the ritual of two, three selfies with hotel employees and some guests who recognized him.
Spalletti, desperate, gives instructions in the match against Salernitano.
Source: AP
"I'm not going to talk"
, he responded kindly to
Clarín
when we went after a statement from the technical director that the third Scudetto
is about to hang on the chest of all of Naples
, 33 years after the last one, obtained with Diego Maradona in the team .
-Tell me, at least, how you slept 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 kept sleeping.
While she slept, during the night, she was fine because she was not aware.
Instead when I opened my eyes and regained consciousness, bad.
Because I would have liked to win that match (the Napoli-Salernitana, which would have been the coronation of the champion).
Luciano Spalletti knows that the title will come sooner rather than later.
Photo: EFE
After this confession, Spalletti crossed his arms over his chest and asked not to continue the talk.
-I can't say more.
The club's press office won't let me.
-But you know well what Napoli means, the club that Diego loved so much, for the Argentines...
Right there, the highest-grossing coach of this season in the Italian Serie A loosened...
-What do you want me to say?
-How did you feel on Sunday?
-We regret not having been able to give this joy to all the lovers of Napoli, but it will probably happen in the next games.
Thank you for having filled the stadium with blue color like yesterday.
It was a beauty to have attended that show that we will always carry with us.
Spalletti did not want to say anything else
.
She waved and fixed her eyes on the cappuccino with bills waiting for her on the table.
Naples woke up this Monday more serene.
Although the beer bottles resting on some monuments, whole or in pieces, betrayed
the celebration that overflowed the neighborhoods of the center and the periphery.
As if it were necessary to purify everything to start again from scratch and put the energy into the Udinese-Napoli match on Thursday, the morning drizzle turned into heavy rain during the day.
The image was that of a city that needed to vent after a feverish weekend due to the celebrations of a triumph that is made to be desired
.
It has been raining since Sunday when, at dusk, on the Castel dell'Ovo, that castle with its feet in the Gulf of Naples where legend has it that the poet Virgil hid an egg on which the good fortune of the place depended, a
“ Grazie, ragazzi”
(“Thanks, guys”) huge addressed to Spalletti's team.
Luciano Spalletti, heartbroken, after Salernitana's draw.
Photo: EFE
With the rain, some of the victorious parades that thanked and praised the Napoli players faded.
It seemed that they had cried.
On the steps of the city's cathedral,
where the blood of San Gennaro miraculously turns liquid three times a year
, Neapolitans going to mass stepped, without even noticing, on a sticker portrait of Napoli's 9, Victor Osimhen, who some devotee stuck looking towards the cathedral.
Maybe as cabal.
Naples, Italy
.
Special envoy.