Napoli at the Club World Cup, super prize ready for De Laurentiis

For the prestige, for the history, to bring Napoli into the elite of world football. Barcelona-Napoli is worth much more than a Champions League quarter-final: it can re-evaluate a totally disappointing season so far and above all it can give the club the chance to keep alive the road that leads to the 2025 Club World Cup, where for the first Once again FIFA organized a super tournament between the 32 best teams in the world. At stake are a mountain of money and the possibility of broadening your horizons on a global level. A very rich dish, in short. And this is why Aurelio De Laurentiis wants to sit at the gaming table at all costs. On Saturday, the president showed up at Castel Volturno to meet the team after the 1-1 draw with Torino which slowed down the rise in the standings and made the comeback mission even more complex with a view to a place in the next Champions League. And he wanted to promise a super prize to his boys in the event of qualification for the 2025 World Cup: 10 million euros. They weren’t needed to stimulate the team to try for the feat in Catalonia, but in the meantime Aurelio put them on the table as a sign of great trust in his boys. De Laurentiis has always believed in this group, perhaps too much. And now he expects a gift from his boys: a dream night in Barcelona, ​​one of those that remain in legend.

Rich dish

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The World Cup in the States would open up extraordinary future scenarios for Napoli: the tournament would guarantee around 50 million just for qualification, plus other prizes linked to results. And adding it to the 10.6 million guaranteed in case of qualification tomorrow evening, the economic picture becomes even more interesting. Of course, passing through to the quarterfinals does not yet guarantee a place for the 2025 World Cup, but it would give Napoli two match points to overtake Juve, currently 5 points ahead in the rankings. By winning in Barcelona, ​​Napoli would get two points, plus one for qualification. So in any quarter-finals “it would be enough” to win one of the two matches to get the points needed to catch up with Juventus and go to the World Cup, because, in the event of a draw, this season’s result would count, with the Bianconeri remaining outside of Europe. . This is why the blue dream is more alive than ever, but it necessarily passes through a magical night in Barcelona.

Trust

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Napoli is preparing to experience one of the most important evenings in its recent history and also for this reason De Laurentiis wanted to make his closeness to the team felt, underlining his belief that this team can aspire to great results in Europe too. It is no secret that in the last season, the season of the Scudetto, De Laurentiis was burned and disappointed by the elimination in the Champions League quarterfinals against Milan. He expected to be able to at least reach the final, given the extraordinary championship. Now, however, he is banking on his pride and the newfound enthusiasm of recent weeks. Thanks to Francesco Calzona, a coach that De Laurentiis strongly wanted to give the final jolt to a depressed environment and an unrecognizable team. A move of desperation that also aimed to rekindle the hope of a high-level Champions League path, and it is no coincidence that Ciccio returned home just on the eve of the first leg match. Where he resisted, managing to keep qualification in the balance. Now, with Osimhen in better shape and Kvaratskhelia back to top player levels, Napoli really believes in the undertaking: «We are Napoli, a strong team. And we go to Barcelona with the aim of winning, without the fear of a strong opponent.” Calzona’s words after Torino are the same as those in De Laurentiis’s head. Now, however, we must transform words into deeds: all in one night, for worldwide joy.