Francis Calzona said enough. That’s enough: yesterday morning he arrived rather early as always at the Castel Volturno sports centre, organized the work, spoke with the captain, and then at the time established by him, close to the afternoon training at 3pm, he led a plenary meeting: and gave the ultimatum to everyone. He called together the players, the entire staff, the sporting director Meluso, the scouting manager Micheli, the manager Sinicropi and all those who gravitate within the orbit of the group and the life of the team, and then he dictated the line. His law.
Naples, the ultimatum and the new Calzona rules
New, behavioral, basic, articulated and precise rules. Rules that do not allow replies and exceptions and which will have to be followed to the letter, by everyone, until the end to try not to hand over to the theater of the absurd what can already now be considered a paradoxical season. Stupid. Full of regrets. Exactly a failure like the Empoli match, the symbol of this year’s technical, character and conceptual debacle because it arrived in full swing for consolation Europe, after having abdicated the throne of the Scudetto and the Champions League. Probably from the Europa League.
Calzona wants to leave Napoli in Europe
Francesco Calzona, however, still chasing the goal of the cups and he doesn’t want to be seen as the man who sealed and sealed the surrender: those were not words of circumstance, those pronounced on Saturday evening in the press room of the Castellani stadium. He believes in it, he demands that everyone do it and above all that they continue to do it until the last crumb of hope by following his methods: before taking on the role of coach of Slovakia he was always an assistant and Napoli is his first experience as a first-time coach of a club, it’s true, but that doesn’t mean he wants to be remembered as an inadequate professional. Let’s be clear: it wouldn’t have happened anyway, given how he tried to manage a compromised situation in an environment already projected into the future and even considering his mistakes, but just to clear the field of any misunderstanding he wanted to clarify the law of he. With two annotations: Napoli will go into training camp from Friday, two days before the match against Roma; and if the situation and attitude don’t change already on Sunday, he will be the one to ask for the prolonged retirement feared by De Laurentiis after Empoli, in the extreme moment of disappointment and anger.
