Italian coach Luciano Spalletti, who led Napoli to the championship after 33 years in the Italian First Football League (Serie A), was named the coach of the 2022-2023 season.
It has been reported that the 64-year-old experienced coach, who achieved an important success at the beginning of Napoli, was awarded the coach of the season award by the Serie A League Management.
In a written statement from Serie A, it was stated that Spalletti’s award will be given at Diego Armando Maradona Stadium before the Napoli-Sampdoria match, one of the last weeks of the league, to be played this weekend.
Serie A Chief Executive Luigi De Siervo said: “Naples under Spalletti had a simply extraordinary season. It is a great achievement to bring Napoli their third league title in their history, 33 years after Maradona.” made its assessment.
Spalletti, who took the helm of Napoli in 2021, finished 3rd in Serie A in his first season and enabled them to participate in the UEFA Champions League in the following season, and in his second season, Napoli won the league championship for the first time after 1990. He had been the architect.
Napoli, under Spalletti’s management, won the league title weeks ago this season, but said goodbye to the Italian Cup early in the last 16 round, and was eliminated in the Champions League by losing to Milan in the quarter-finals.
Napoli President Aurelio De Laurentiis officially announced in a television program on 28 May that he and Spalletti would part ways at the end of the season, despite making the team champion after 33 years.
De Laurentiis says, “Spalletti is a free man. When someone comes to you and tells you that he thinks he’s reached the highest point he can reach, that he wants to take a year off, it’s okay to let him go. He’s given us a lot. For that, I thank him.” had used the words.
Napoli, which guaranteed the championship weeks ago in Serie A, where the last week’s matches will be played on 3-4 June, has 87 points. Napoli, which will host Sampdoria at home in the last week of the league, will lift the championship trophy at the end of this match.