Juventus, Spalletti: Naples always in my heart, bigger than football | OneFootball

The first press conference of Luciano Spalletti as the coach of Juventus has just concluded. The coach focused on some fundamental aspects of the Bianconeri squad, as well as his recent past with Napoli.

Juventus, Spalletti's first words in Bianconero: “Napoli will always remain in my heart, something beyond football emerged there”

These are his statements: “Scudetto? Can we get back in the race? Yes, I hope to get back into the Scudetto race, why not? In fact, it's a bit what we were discussing yesterday with the players in the locker room: the intentions must be at their maximum, and the maximum is to get back into the Scudetto race. Only 9 matches have been played, many are still missing: I've seen all sorts of things in my 30 years of profession, I'm an old man and I don't see why I should settle for letting things go as they please. I will try to have more influence, and we will see what we manage to achieve: absolute respect for the players' value. This is part of my job. Goals are fundamental to winning matches. Offensive football is important, but we must be a team and be a group that understands what to do on the field. It's all stimulating for me.”

“When you are on the field, what becomes fundamental is winning the match. Sometimes you win by the luck of a rebound, it becomes essential to win it, then you try to produce a good product. You are always looking for new words... New words do not tire the mind. At the stadium, I have always perceived this atmosphere, this innovation, this technology. Even you, with words, must strive to make new discoveries. Then we talk about other things. Koopmeiners? I know him well, we followed him even in previous teams. Then he was expensive, and we couldn't take him. I liked him, I tried to convince him despite the economic possibilities... That idea remains for me. For me, he is a midfielder/half-back, his history says so, he has often played as a central defender, here we return to compliment a coach who has coached well, which is Gasp, and he put him in a different position, bringing out the best.”

On the experience at Napoli

These are his statements regarding the experience in Azzurro: “Are they happy in Naples about my arrival here? I have left something in all the cities where I have coached, and I remember beautiful things. In Naples, something superior emerged for the football played and for what we brought home, a beautiful and important Scudetto: I established a special relationship, it will remain so and all intact on my part. This morning I gave blood for tests, and I gave the other arm, where I have the tattoo, I didn't want anything touched.

I will always have many friends, I also received messages: Naples will always remain in my heart beyond professional choices. However, extracting what I said about Naples and the end of the relationship saying that I wouldn't wear another team's tracksuit, was about that season: I went to tell the president that if he let me go, it would be better, but not to go to another team, in that season I wouldn't have worn another tracksuit as I did. I also had opportunities, everyone does if you win the championship with Napoli: but it's not that I have to stop being a coach, that option then expired, and I still had to have respect for Naples. But after that season, I will have to have other experiences and knowledge: whoever takes this thing to attack, it should be known that it is decontextualizing something from reality, you understand the intentions of those who do it.”

Vincenzo Schiavo

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