For his climb to the Champions League, Conte entrusts himself to the Belgian champion who won the big ears in Manchester (in addition to many other trophies). Because with KDB football becomes poetry, art, a gift of nature
Football in a name and in a surname, in a man who is a little symbol of a decade, in that style now Baroque and now Gothic, then classic and very modern, would say futurist, that Kevin de Bruyne contains in itself. The football that becomes poetry, tastes of art, a gift of nature that now enriches Naples in its breathtaking panorama, lies there as the frescoes of its nature that undertake or however imagine, in that serious look – even severe – that seems to confirm what KDB said of itself: “When I play inside me it is as if there were two Kevin, sometimes I become a little bastard”. True or false it is, one would remain in the limbo of metropolitan legends, while De Bruyne is living legend, now brings Napoli with that hallwear so dazzling, the elegance of a pret-à-porter stylist who drags his (new) Maison to parade on the Red Carpet of the Champions League.
the challenge to the past
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But who would have said it, just five months ago, that Napoli would come to him, would he have brought him, flattering him, seduced and then abandoned together with his class in the good lounge of football? And who would have suspected that fate – not always cynical and Baro – would then have taken for the evening of September 18, at Ethhad, his Renthrée? It is the prodigal son who reappears at the parent company, even if only for one night, and reconnects his story with that of a club that at his debut in the Champions League passed right from Manchester: 1-1, Gol di Cavani, 14 September 2011, looked like an occasional holiday in a five-star resort and instead a bridge was being built on the future. In that stadium, among those people, Kevin de Bruyne played a highly representative role, because of the football of Guardiola he was the spokesman, with that unpredictable cadence, the dried and never “crouched” tears, the extensions full of his grace.
On the curtain
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You could, wanting, also (re) start like this: where were you left? And by sitting among the statistics, which would not trivialize, they would proceed with a story: in the good living room of the De Bruyne house, on the coast of Giugliano, a stone’s throw from Castel Volturno, to avoid accidents, you have to know how to zigzare between a championship, a cup and a Belgian Super Cup; a cup and a German Super Cup; Five League cups, six premier, three community shields and two cups of England, all conquered (obviously) with the City; A Champions League, a UEFA Super Cup and a Club World Cup; In short, a carousel from which one would not like to go down, despite going to enjoy the secrets of a roaring era, all of his; Or a jewelry in which to get lost, re -enacting the time when it happened to find yourself decorated with those pearls.
Fate
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But perhaps it was written along the hairpin bends of the coast that Naples should become Kevin de Bruyne’s Sweet Home, who in 2017 said yes with Michèle to Sorrento, the paradise to promise loyalty in good and bad luck, and who starts again for this umpteenth adventure – maybe the last one, but why ask him? – From Maradona, from Castel Volturno, from places from which it was captured in the unconscious, probably, or not even.
APPLAUSE
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De Bruyne’s career is a reportage in the great beauty that her city has exhibited in every corner of the world and that here, in the garden of the heart of Paolo Sorrentino, becomes blinding, like the synthesis of the splendor of its decade: 108 goals, 177 assists, 19 titles, a giant that speaks four languages (Dutch, French, English, German), is preparing to learn the fifth and the Italian (the Italian and the Neapolitan) And he absolutely does not intend to stop amaze. Giugliano – where he went to live – he knows of comfort, he keeps him at the field, he avoids to distract himself in traffic, allows him to live his family in the reserved park identified for his three children but without losing the main concepts of the professional, who needs to be always present in himself.
CURIOSITY
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February, a usual ‘Saturday abandoned in an chair of a hotel, in Tivvù give the City and Manna rethinks to certain phrases of Conte (“we must raise the quality”) that the étoile in the foreground has entirely. Nothing is impossible they say in Manchester and even in old local advertisements and at the diesse the lamp is accepted, starts the consultation lap, tries to understand discovers that there is a half intention of Liverpool that could be formalized: one plane for Manchester, another after a few weeks in Belgium and De Bruyne he already knows that he has directed himself and his family in the direction of Naples.
One, one hundred thousand
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Behind there is an ‘exaggerated’ experience, a predestined adolescence, and that limbo in which, having acquired certainties, one becomes enfant prodige. De Bruyne is many things together, a finger, a Goleador ‘added, a half -right or left half, an 8 or a 10 that goes around with the 17, also a false Nueve; And in any case De Bruyne is Pep Guardiola’s phosphorescent football, but not only the Tiki-Taka, certainly the most distant specimen from Mourinho’s ideas, one would say its antithesis. De Bruyne is the border between those two universes, one enveloping and spectacular and the other dry, anesthetizing, pragmatic: and it is no coincidence that at the Chelsea of the Special One it was an unforgettable because traumatic experience, and at the City it was equally (unforgettable) because it is exciting. De Bruyne is the new light (cit. Benitez) in this Naples that Conte is trying to build him on him, developing technical systems and references: the 4-3-3 seemed to be suitable, but he crossed Anguissa and the possibility of being granted balance by an admirable athlete; And then, ADEGIO Avanti: 4-1-4-1, bringing MCTominay more to the left, or 4-4-1-1, leaving KDB behind the tip; Or maybe, you will see: from Drongen onwards, the trajectories of life designed De Bruyne.
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