Davide Nicola reinstated, Danilo Iervolino reveals backstory

“Smart people can also change their minds.”

At the center of an unbelievable case that first saw the coach exonerated, and later reinstated, Davide Nicola and Danilo Iervolino, Salernitana’s coach and patron, respectively, have been in the sports news all week. Not exactly, perhaps, the best way to prepare for the difficult match with leading Napoli, which will descend at the Arechi on Saturday afternoon for the last match of the first half of the season.

Interviewed by the ‘Corriere dello Sport,’ the Campania club’s number one returned to the affair that has kept all Granata fans in suspense: “After the Bergamo blow, it was right to think about discontinuity. It was not only an issue related to the defeat with Atalanta. For several days the team looked long, listless, graying. We were casting about for many technicians who had proposed themselves. Then Nicola sought me out, I was not well disposed at first, but eventually I called him back. He convinced me that I still had energy, courage, passion. The players were overjoyed to find him again, the ds as well. Smart people can also change their minds. He admitted the mistakes, he deserved extra confidence.”