“The new energy of my city out of the dark. It’s a set on the world»- Corriere.it

«NoWe are ready. We had to change plans to be in Naples and participate in the celebrations,” he says Luisa Ranieri. Here we tell the story of the landing and the return home of the Neapolitan actress, with her husband Luca Zingaretti and their two daughters, to dive into her Scudetto.

Luca is not from Rome?

«Yes, but when he sees the Azzurri play, yes arricrea».

Did you experience the previous Scudetto, the one in 1990 with Maradona?

«And of course, I was moving from one neighborhood to another, I remember a completely naked elderly woman painted blue in the mad traffic inside a 500. This party will be crazy, it will last months. Naples is our Rio, with its contradictions and explosions, there is no equal city, not even in the South. And it’s not rhetoric. He’s coming out of the dark, the Scudetto is the icing n’copp’ to the cake. A world opens up.”

Osimhen, the driver of the team, as a child he sold water…

“In the streets of Nigeria. What to say? Whoever lasts wins. It is the symbol of the city, of redemption. He’s our new god right now.”

And god did Maradona know him?

«Yes, but I didn’t talk to him, he wasn’t approachable. As a little girl I had a love interest with a player from the Napoli Primavera, he was a defender and didn’t dare to mark him, also because Maradona, he just didn’t let him see the ball”

The Pibe de Oro mural has become a place of worship.

«It is the most visited place in Naples after the Veiled Christ».

Is there something religious in a Scudetto after 33 years, the years of Christ?

«Football also unites those who are not fans, it is sacred and profane. Naples is experiencing a moment of great artistic and cultural ferment. There is a positive energy that comes back. Yesterday I was thinking about the film I made by Paolo Sorrentino, It was the hand of God

. Paolo did not live the Scudetto due to the tragedy in which his parents died. Now this film of his has come out and we are champions of Italy. It’s like he’s being repaid.”

Are footballers actors? When they celebrate…

“I agree. They perform ballets, strange rites. Yes, they look more like actors than players to me. There is a self-celebration component. After all, even the stadium is a big stage».

Spalletti looks like Batman’s antagonist Joker, the same haunted eyes. And he sighs, doesn’t speak.

She laughs: «But “I” like him, he’s bald like my husband, I also like his fear of being happy… It’s true that he doesn’t live in the city but sleeps where the team trains, but I think I’m in love with Napoli. But he will never tell.’

Insigne, the very Neapolitan player of Napoli, came close to the final victory and at the climax … A farce by Scarpetta?

‘He’s gone abroad with his round-trip. He didn’t persevere, he had to stay, he was punished, poor fellow.’

De Laurentiis, also a man of cinema, is not loved by the ultras.

«Aurelio has a great personality, he is not willing to compromise, for the Neapolitans he is tough to digest».

It is a Scudetto built with entrepreneurial logic, after the old generals of Naples, Insigne, Koulibaly, Mertens, have left.

“I’m not that much a fan but my brothers do and they think the opposite, they didn’t expect it, whatever it was…».

And what would Massimo Troisi have said? Sorry for the delay…?

“Eh, he would have thought like my brothers, amulets and trinkets.”

Sabrina Ferilli after the Giallorossi Scudetto did a legendary striptease.

“He promised it. She is a super fan, if I did it it wouldn’t make sense, it would be my exhibitionism and the voyeurism of those who look at me. No, I’m sorry, I’m not getting undressed. But I do celebrate. Naples puts itself on stage every day, this time the matter is big. I won’t miss anything”.