Napoli have won the Scudetto: they are Italian Champions 33 years after Maradona. De Laurentiis: “Victory together” – Corriere.it

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UDINE – At 10.30 pm, Naples uncorked the cap of emotions: after drawing with Udinese 1-1, champion of Italy for the third time.

The liberating scream rose from Maradona stadium, where 50,000 fans watched the match against Udinese through the maxi screens (eight) installed by Napoli – two per sector – and the party, finally the real one, had begun. You asked me to win, now we’ve won together, the crowd addresses Aurelio De Laurentiis on the microphone from the pitch. Then to Dazn: Now the goal is to win it again, once again. Then we miss the Champions League. This is a starting point, even for Spalletti.

The party in the city

From Fuorigrotta, the stadium district, to the hill of Posillipo, to the promontory of Vomero. The city is wrapped in a single colour, blue declined in all its nuances. Every street, every alley of the historic center, every meter of street is crowded: to the fans who waited in the open air for the final whistle of Udine’s Dacia Arena, watching the match in bars or restaurants, to those who gradually left the Maradona stadium where Aurelio De Laurentiis did the honors of the house and stayed to celebrate. Then came the thousands who left their homes to sing and dance in the great blue night under the open sky. A gigantic procession along the seafront, the reflection of Castel dell’Ovo illuminated in blue on the water, like many other monuments in the city.

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The pedestrian area, taken already at 21, continues until 4 in the morning, Friday, the day on which the team returns to Naples and awaits the embrace at Capodichino airport with the citybefore the field party that will take place on Sunday at the Maradona on the occasion of the match against Fiorentina.

Squares and narrow streets in a single and endless embrace. Not been one official eventthat will be there on 4 June, the last championship matchbut was organized spontaneously by the Neapolitans in the last month, supported by the institutions they have set up an ad hoc order service with a large pedestrian area and agents at the gates. All on foot, therefore, while the team celebrates on the pitch in Udine. The maxi blue island also scheduled for Sunday evening in conjunction with the match against Fiorentina.

A dominated season

Clear and undisputed path, that of Naples. With the added value that never has a club separated the runners-up by so many points. Thirty-three years later (tomorrow, Friday 5 May, the anniversary of the first Italian flag (1987), last April 29 was the second in history). There was Maradona at the time, today a team built mostly in the summer made up of young talents is crowned champion of Italy. Napoli crosses the finish line in an almost unexpected way, especially after the excellent farewells of Insigne, Mertens, Fabian Ruiz and Koulibaly. Clearly the green line and sustainability have been rewarded with the lowering of the average age of the players and the cut of the salary cap.

President De Laurentiis he enjoys his triumph, smiles and rejoices in the Maradona crowd. He had been prophetic in May last year, even before the most representative players left, to say we will bring the Scudetto back to Naples. success at the end of a clear path of victories and recordswith only one man in command, Luciano Spalletti
, who won for the first time in Italy and released the happiness held back for months. He who until yesterday preached calm, suggested caution in anticipating celebrations, tonight has not held back his enthusiasm and he toasted with the boys in the changing rooms of the Udine stadium.

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