Cairo after Turin-Naples: “Great victory and super crowd”

“The team showed some important things: I’m very happy.” Naturally, the president of Torino, Urbano Cairo, is satisfied. Last night his Toro added a (deserved) victory of prestige and weight to its path. “It’s a great result, it was a great victory – underlines the club’s number one -. And there was also a great crowd. At the end of the match, I complimented Simeone and he told me that when there is a crowd like that that supports you from start to finish you can’t not win”.

From Lazio to Naples

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On Friday afternoon, on the eve of this important match against Italian champions Napoli, president Cairo visited the team and spoke to the players in the presence of coach Baroni and technical director Vagnati. “After a match like the one in Rome, in which you deserved to win against Lazio, obviously there was a bit of disappointment – says Cairo -. So, when I met the team, I said to the boys: ‘You are angry at having drawn a match that should have been won, this is the moment to bring everything out’. And we did it against Napoli, I was optimistic before playing this match”. Now the gaze is already turning to the continuation of the journey, and Cairo invites the group not to lose concentration. “We have to stay very on track – he underlines -, what matters is that we want things very strongly as the players wanted them today (last night for those reading, ed.) and continue to work as we are doing with a coach who has been on the track very well all week. This way you also get the results”. Returning to the success against Napoli he says: “Of course a bit of luck is always needed, but the team certainly showed some important things. And the defense did too: I saw Maripan, Coco very well, Tameze very well who is really good in that position there as an arm in arm.”

Baron smiles

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Marco Baroni is an expert, seasoned coach, someone who certainly doesn’t get excited about a victory. But he also understands that this is a particular shot with a special taste. “It’s a reward for the hard work we’re doing. In some matches this team was missing a little piece, so we worked a lot on attention to all the details, on both mental and physical stability – says the Torino coach -: it was a complicated, difficult match, but the team interpreted it in the best way. I have to congratulate my boys, there was great participation from everyone”. Smile, Baroni, and this is good news: “This is a very important result, it will definitely help us improve in the future”.

The right path

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For a few weeks Baroni has been taking Toro by the hand, he is shaping it, he is integrating the many new players little by little and is accompanying him on the path to the good game. He won in Rome, he played a good first half in Parma, he played a quality game against Lazio (victory missed in the 103rd minute on a penalty) and yesterday this journey rewarded him. He combined a good game and a full score. “We have traced a path and the path is only this, we will move forward along this line – points out the Granata coach -. I am not surprised by this beautiful victory, because the team is improving in work, in attention, a lot is being spent. There are foundations for improving a lot”. And then he remembers: “In football you always want everything right away, but it’s not easy. This team, at the beginning, had really changed a lot: I have always had faith and I have faith in this group which has moral and technical qualities. Let’s move forward with work, humility and with this energy: we can all grow a lot together.”