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He says that he hitchhiked to the Scudetto – also an emotional metaphor to say that he started from the bottom – but Napoli is a deluxe station for Luciano Spalletti, who writes the most important page of his life in his memoir notebooks, kept in his office drawers. coaching career. It’s okay that in Russia he won two national titles (he performed bareback on the pitch in sub-zero temperatures) but the first Scudetto in Italy represents a historic achievement, per se for the club he represents. Thirty-three years after Maradona there is Lucio da Certaldo, 64, who arrived in Naples after two years away from football. His fame as an angular man has proved to be a strength over time. He imposed his own style without hypocrisy or pretense.

The path from below

Luciano gave all of himself to Naples, choosing at a certain point to live, in symbiosis with the team and the environment, in the Castel Volturno sports centre. Two years without stopping, day and night studying the route, finding the direction: soccer shoes (I put them back on because I was struggling even to buy the first ones) and on hitchhiking, in fact. Never traveled to the window seat insists on the night of the party, the first of a series that Naples will live from next Saturday until June 4, the last championship game, the day on which the official award ceremony is scheduled at the Maradona stadium while the fans will gather in the three squares of the city delegated to the celebrations. It will go to the bitter end, but the appetizer of the night at the Stadium can give an idea of ​​what will happen once the goal has been achieved.

A festive city

The images of ten thousand fans at Capodichino airport waiting for the team to return from Turin are viral on social media: the players, many in tank tops on the roof of the bus, have posted but also (re)posted the shots of the party taken by others. Osimhen documents: from the landing to the bus journey followed by the maddened crowd, the story of enthusiasm finally released after months spent making banners and flags, coloring the city with blue and white ribbons trying not to give in to euphoria. The embankment broke at the final whistle of the Stadium and from silence we passed to an explosion of joy. The great absentee? Just Spalletti who keeps the bubbles in the fridge (stapper the bottle with the Scudetto acquired, he said after the victory over Juventus).

The silent revolution

The first party, therefore, without him, headed by car to Milan to treat yourself to two days with the family. Away from the spotlight before taking part as the absolute protagonist in the grand finale to be experienced in one go. Lucio the director of the perfect enterprise, failed to rank coaches such as Ancelotti, Benitez and Sarri who preceded him. him the courage to start over. Spalletti took responsibility last summer for the revolution in the workforce: he greeted the good senators – from Insigne to Mertens and Koulibaly – and welcomed young people with recognized but immature talent as mother hen. He made the most of every available resource without being blinded by the light of the stars that could potentially shine on their own. All the same for Lucio, united under his banner: thus he has created a solid, motivated and devoted group (in the players’ statements he is described as a master to a genius). He won on all fronts, Jack Raspadori gave him the Scudetto goal – he wanted it badly – ​​and he was also close to seeing his Totti again. The captain has made an appointment for him after the Scudetto. The bubbles of the heart (finally) free to party.