The fourth Scudetto del Napoli, as well as in the two fabulous MCTOMINAY and LUKAKU “waste”, is identified in the coach, introverted as few, devoted to sacrifice as nobody (remembering for this the great sprinter) and faithful to football cynicism
Napoli after the Scudetto with Luciano Spalletti seemed not to have concluded his fate, he had firmly agreed. Antonio Conte, like the noodles of Once upon a time in America who returns from Moe to the New York bar with the key to the pendulum, on the back, to put the time back on motorbike, has rekindled the fate of Napoli, giving him another championship, the fourth. He managed to be listened to and indulge from Aurelio De Laurentiis and established a heherly dialogue with Naples. Not a simple thing. He let himself be involved, do not submit.
it seems one of the metal
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He has not erased his past, but agreed to immerse himself in this chaotic. He chose to live in the center of the city, he did not escape Neapolitan invasiveness as Spalletti had done, who slept in the sports center in Castel Volturno on a sofa bed under a poster in Maradona. He then conquered and was conquered. But Conte managed to defend himself from the Neapolitan overwriting, remaining himself: a step behind the handy. Although his staying on the bench looks like a metal concert, the man, off the pitch, returns to being a character by John Le Carré: suspicious, distant, pragmatic and double. And on this duplication he managed to build the success of Napoli, his new football fate. Without irreplaceable, with a gap of Manchester United, Scott Mctominay, and one of Chelsea, Romelu Lukaku, and that when they took away from Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, he accused the blow for a month, the black February that was not black as an uncertain August, circled as the worst moment, and then at the end he was entrusted to the “exterior” of the other teams: of the other teams: Soulé, Orsolini and Pedro. Conte who has changed the form three times based on the shortcomings, not with Maurizio Sarri’s imagination who invented Dries Mertens top scorer – as proof that sooner or later everyone must be arranged – but in a Cartesian way, because Antonio is a rational, more mathematical than instinct. A conservator, in Manlio Scopigno’s way, coach of Cagliari of the Scudetto in 1970, who, having to decline to Gigi Riva and his companions what to do to win, said: “Football has ten commandments”. Then he took a break and read: “First, don’t take them. Second, don’t take them. Third, don’t take them.” And, raising the blunt eye always sleepy towards the players, he added: “Do I have to continue?”. Conte does not have this irony, and instead of Scopigno’s whiskey (“there are only three types of whiskey: the whiskey, the double whiskey and the triple whiskey”, to indicate the meaning of life and football), has the farmhouse with the hay, a metaphor used until the exhaustion when Napoli ran and made points and everyone began to ask him if he pointed to him. His great merit is that he reached the exceptional nature with normal and sacrifices, this time Napoli had no miracles, but only a long and winding race, embodying a paradox: it was less strong than Inter, he played less well, he undressed the only champion who remained, Kvaratskhelia, still ending up winning.
In Monza it looks like Siddharta
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Conte had made his debut with “Amma Faticà” and his players struggled a lot, who resisted a lot, scored a little, the right that was enough, and immediately only 27 goals. And while Napoli resisted, Conte superimposed on the team with the double intent to defend it and appropriate it, and as he then discovered on the evening of the celebrations also “the silent tyrant” Aurelio De Laurentiis, Naples is not a stepmother, at least not with the constancy that is attributed to it, but lets do it, lets foreigners like count overlapping them, drawing benefits and speaking in his name, even when they are pinned by his fringes. Bad, as happened in Monza, in one of the last days from the Dante group, with the coach who, like Siddharta, came out of the palace and discovered that they were not only caresses, but there were also those who insulted him asking him changes that they did not arrive. It was a sentimental close, the only external crisis of Conte and the cheering of Napoli, the others were all internal and kept well. Also because the man Conte has a communicative athleticism, a vocation to the sacrifice that is “Menneian”: he works, resists, wins. His introversion is from Fachiro. He feels the games more than any coach of his generation, perhaps only Arrigo Sacchi was more “suffering” in the Leopardian waiting, but then, while Count explodes on the sidelines, Sacchi simply earned the return to sociality. Its football reality is designed, lived and applied with a permanent compulsiveness that becomes competitive cruelty and which is freed with excess children. At the beginning, his man on the field was to be Romelu Lukaku, the permanent footballer, the one evoked, sought, expected and then used, squeezed, played mainly as a reference, then also as Goleador (14 goals and 10 assists); Afterwards the surprise Scott Mctominay was added (12 goals, 6 assists) who, moved a little further forward – as he asked at Manchester United before he was sold, looking for the happiness of the field in the role he felt – became decisive, freed from the constraint, launched in the area has become a fundamental mode. The unexpected addition. It is no coincidence that, out of 59 goals from Napoli, in the championship 26 they are by Lukaku and MCTominay, almost half.
The Scottish chess player
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But it was not only the numbers, the two players embodied Congism with continuity and a passion combined with a missionary will. Lukaku was a boxer, rugby player and basketball player, as he collected the blows, he did from the lightning rods and distributed balls he received, opening the field with his feet, making a point of support, welcoming the responsibility of undergoing blows and faults; MCTominay was a tennis player and chess player, for the intelligence of strategy, insertion and mental control, especially in the area, where he wanted to be for years and where Antonio Conte left herself, with unexpected results, so much so that it was the revelation of the season. In this multisportation of roles and sacrifices, there was the distorting difference of Conte’s Napoli, small combinations of simplicity: multiple functions and concessions to the will – if it was useful to the team – the rest, then, did the emergencies, with a non -short rose, but certainly not always suitable for needs. Conte, despite the Mourinhesca fame of compiler of essential lists, and despite the desired critical exaggerations on what he had (who also served to open a passage for the possible abandonment of Napoli), in the end he showed that he had grown very tactically and humanly, using the lament as a connection of the soul, annoying and making himself underestimated, to then find unexpected resources in Philip Billing and Leonardo Spinazzola. The diversity of Conte combined with the diversity of Naples gave birth to an anomaly: the beautiful game was sacrificed for large traits, betraying the Maradonian roots, but without the contarian appropriation, without the corporation they would never have been this championship. Conte chose the only possible strategy that he had to lead to a safe Champions League qualification, and then, who started after game, he understood that he could take the Scudetto for the third time with the third different team. He understood it when he won in Bergamo, there Napoli suffered the total correspondent, the rest (tactical experiments, Fantozzian clouds in the locker room and trenches) came accordingly.
A team to De Laurentiis
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But the contiana of victory is evident, and has also sanctioned the perhaps definitive abandonment of the Neapolitan epicurean nature on the field. Before Conte, the cheerful Neapolitan soul, shaky and conclusively linked per day by day with an eternal lightness of youth, had reflected in the game of Napoli, with progressive custody to resolving men, from Maradona down, but, after this championship, discovered the distribution of the protagonism: not the voice, the body, the blood, the hand, the hand, the head, the rumors, the bodies, the bodies and the hands. heads on the pitch. Above all, he understood that one could not overdo it, or exaggerate in concentration and not in the performance. Conte’s Napoli was a team deeply different from all the others in these years, because for the first time he exercised the cynicism, and the operation succeeded: by flooding the team more to the nature of De Laurentiis than to that of the city.
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