Napoli, Aurelio De Laurentiis responds to Antonio Conte
Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis, speaking at the microphones of Radio CRC, responded to Antonio Conte. The Azzurri coach in the cpre-match press conference with Monza had said: “What happened with Kvaratskhelia and in general over these eight months have made me realize that many things here in Naples cannot be done”.
“Evaluations in itinere can also create discomfort, because then they deserve answers, reflections and considerations, which is always better to do at the end – replied the number one of the partenopei -. All football teams are evolving until the end: the only script that can not be written is the soccer game and its championship”.
“The Scudetto film was a good success, I said to myself why don–t we tell every season of Napoli– continued De Laurentiis -: from the signing of Conte in my offices to the retreat, to everything else, we are building the film of this season that I hope and hope to release towards the end of June in cinemas, I am discussing it with the platforms, I have hired a 16-year-old boy who is the protagonist of Napoli New York, an extraordinary actor who came to see me during the interval of Napoli-Empoli with his mother: I told him that he has to tell the story of the season with his spontaneity, we have interviewed journalists, actors, singers, fans. L’blue as a color is always more blue, Napoli has been saying its piece for 20 years. When I say I work for Neapolitans, I always see a latent envy toward the city and its inhabitants: it is easy to talk about it, in my opinion it is envy not to understand that Neapolitans are the salt of Italy. I lived with my father and uncle and my grandparents who moved to Rome in the ’40s. Dad in the ’30s fresh out of college moved to Sofia in Bulgaria where he founded a successful newspaper called ‘black and white’ but he wasn” not a Juventus fan.
On the stadium: “Mayor Manfredi? He does his job very well, if I were to abandon the Maradona I would create no small problem for him. He is trying very hard to make the necessary verifications. Councillor Cosenza is his mentor and he is investigating, but there are issues that do not only concern the third ring. We have to see if the 1959 structure, revisited with the 1990 superstructure, holds up to further work. Are there possibilities to make 100 lounges and 70,000 seats to be competitive with northern teams? Are there possibilities to create extraordinary visibility of the game? The soccer field is off-center from the stadium basin, if I were to re-center it I would have to dismantle the concrete of the authority stand destroying the locker rooms. The athletic track in the stadiums where you want to attend the game and where you want the 12th and 15th fan on the field should not be there. We already have an extraordinary tifo. The curves from the second ring eat segments of seats and stay 25 meters from the goal, of problems there are many. I have made myself available, l’ass. Cosenza promised me ‘dear Aurelio by April 30 I will give you a report on what can and cannot be done’. For me to stay where our great Maradona played would only make me happy”.
Closing on the Scudetto race: “Open an egg in Bologna colors tomorrow night? But let’s open it today at 6 p.m. (laughs, ed.). Do you want to cheat? I detest those who cheat, I cannot cheat others”.
