naples. the lazzerona. the popular. the naples of diego. the city owned by its people. naples. which usually loses, but occasionally manages to win. on may 4, napoli secured the italian football championship with a draw at udinese, a first serie a title for azzurri in 33 years the first since diego maradona. take six neapolitans, the class of 23, and view the achievement through their eyes. in naples, football is everything. it sjoy, it s love, it s fun, it s sadness. it is important to us to win against teams from the north. we are pending for this- moment since a long time. so we just feel this . power, this emotion. this year, all of the opponents fall down inter, milan, juventus with their problems. we have to think about the future. we have this great future we re on our roads. to be neapolitan is a dream. i say every time we are firsti of all neapolitans, and then italians. the 2022 23 season wasn t expected to pan out this way. napoli, under head coach luciano
naples. the noisy, the chaotic the effervescent one. the one which in the sun smells of the salt in its sea, and in the shade, odours of the dampness of its alleyways. naples. the modern, the experimental, the iridescent one. the naples of mount vesuvius, as seen by andy warhol. the city of the prog rock and blues of pino daniele and napule e. the polychrome naples. the melancholic and syncopated naples of liberato. naples. the lazzerona. the popular. the naples of diego. the city owned by its people. naples. which usually loses, but occasionally manages to win. on may 4, napoli secured the european championship with a draw at udinese, a first serie a title for azzurri in 33 years the first since diego maradona. take six neapolitans, the class of 23, and view the achievement through their eyes. in naples, football is everything. isjoy, is love, is fun, is sadness. it is important to us to win against teams from the north. we are pending for this- moment since a long time.
let s say because he say, ok, now we have no team but we still have the people, we still have the fans. they were in the third division of italian football but loyalfans still came, over 50,000 for their first serie c match against cittadella. there was promotion back to serie a in 2007. six years later they were runners up tojuventus, the rise masterminded by coaches like walter mazzarri, rafael benitez and mauricio sarri. he started like a slow but constant growth. he was in serie b. napoli then he was serie a, then europa league and he was really able to understand that, for a team like this, football trading was fundamental.
the one which, in the sun, smells of the salt of its sea, naples. the polychrome naples. the melancholic and syncopated naples of liberato. naples. the popular. the naples of diego. the city owned by its people. which usually loses, but occasionally manages to win. on may 4th, napoli secured the european championship with a draw at udinese, a first serie a title
serie a title a year later, but he left the club following a 15 month ban, after a positive drugs test. no one could replace him. star players came and went, but long term decline set in and the club were relegated in 1998. after maradona, there was some big problems. it was a hard time for young neapolitans. we were still thinking, ok, now we are not so good, but we are still the team of maradona. and suddenly, we were not a team any more, because napoli went into bankruptcy. we don t have money, so we need to sell all the players. look at the players we had ferrara, cannavaro, we had zola, we had many good players. we had to sell everybody to keep the balance, but it was no good.