Umberto Chiariello: “Seeing Juan Jesus on the pitch is a scandal”.
On Radio Napoli Centrale, during Un Calcio alla Radio, Umberto Chiariello spoke with his editorial: “The numbers often don’t lie, even if they don’t say everything. On another occasion, just this morning in Un Fatto alla Radio, I talked about how football is treacherous, inexact, it is not a science, and how impossible it is, at times, to make correct assessments a priori. Who would have imagined this Bologna? Who would have imagined that Inter would have won the Scudetto so early and found the perfect replacement for Lukaku in Thuram? And who would have imagined that the award-winning team, so recognized throughout the world, would make this championship? This is football, made up of imponderable things, such a serious collapse could not have been foreseen. All the mistakes in the world have been made and the coaches continue to make them: why doesn’t Calzona leave Juan Jesus out of the team who, in addition to being the poorest on the team, has decided to bully his own captain? Since Napoli is now out, do we want to see these guys? Can we ever continue with Juan Jesus who is not up to the task, who doesn’t deserve to play. In Empoli it was enough to take the field and not make nice statues, today we would be talking about a Napoli in the running for the Champions League. The speech is very simple: I’m angry with the team. I don’t know who will arrive on the Napoli bench, I read about every one, but whoever comes will have to tell De Laurentiis that Juan Jesus and Anguissa are not part of the project, that they have to sit down and change the team.”
Salvio Passante: “Here’s what happened in the locker room between Di Lorenzo and Juan Jesus”.
On Radio Napoli Centrale, during Un Calcio alla Radio by Umberto Chiariello, Salvio Passante, director of CalcioNapoli24, spoke: “The facts show that, immediately after Empoli, De Laurentiis would have wanted to send the team into retreat. Only Di Lorenzo and Calzona made him give up, finding a compromise of a mini-retreat in Caserta. The team would have to meet for at least 48 hours, all together, away from distractions. At which point, less than 48 hours after this decision, Juan Jesus, pushed by other team mates, including Anguissa and Osimhen, without notifying the captain, went to talk to Calzona himself. The news reached Di Lorenzo and there was a heated discussion in the locker room. This morning I had the opportunity to speak with very authoritative sources in the club who wanted to clarify one thing, confirming the rather heated argument between Juan Jesus and Di Lorenzo: the only one who went to talk to Calzona was only Juan Jesus, not even Anguissa. This situation photographs what the situation in the locker room is, it delegitimizes the figure of the captain in front of everyone. They obviously have no perception of the fans’ discontent. I don’t like that these players, even through posting photos, try to confuse the market. An attitude that we should all improve. Napoli-Roma makes me very nervous because yesterday we completely dominated and then, looking at the standings, you see that difference in points which hurts. The players always go on the pitch. This year, Anguissa is on the podium of the worst of the year. Next Napoli manager? I hope Conte, but all signs point to Pioli. De Laurentiis will wait for the end of the championship to understand whether he gets to Europe or not.”
Ivan Zazzaroni: “All the coaches this year found a complex Napoli.”
Ivan Zazzaroni, director of Corriere dello Sport, spoke on Radio Napoli Centrale during Un Calcio alla Radio by Umberto Chiariello: “De Rossi hasn’t had much luck in his career. Eternal future captain, everything is going wonderfully for him now. At 2-1 I thought he hadn’t recovered it and then Abraham came back. Conte at Napoli? I think not. Pioli, for me, comes closest to De Laurentiis’ idea. Then there is Gasperini who is the one that others like a lot, but there are some reservations about his character, given that he is not soft. In the end, I don’t know who will arrive. I hope Gasperini for Napoli, I would like to see him for many reasons. Bologna? Yesterday he played badly. He has 15 excellent players, with great personalities, it happens every now and then. Naples? I had the opportunity to speak with all the Napoli coaches this year. Everyone was very honest, what they said was that they found a difficult environment. Not Naples as a city, on the contrary, it became very patient, but with a complex locker room and with players who wanted to leave.”
Luciano Tarallo: “I don’t understand why Juan Jesus plays, but Natan wouldn’t do better.”
On Radio Napoli Centrale, during Umberto Chiariello’s Un Calcio alla Radio, Luciano Tarallo, goalkeeping coach, spoke: “When I spoke badly of Roma and Mourinho, I spoke badly of Rui Patricio who was unwatchable. I asked for Svilar to come in and everyone criticized me. Error is a resource, not a condemnation. We have to learn it. Anyway, let’s analyze yesterday’s match. Let’s start with Abraham’s goal to make it 2-2. A zonal defense from Napoli, Di Lorenzo stays at the near post and reads the trajectory of the ball very badly. He goes to meet him, but he goes through the fields and wastes time. Di Lorenzo makes a curve to come back, all this wastes hundredths of seconds and leaves the Roma attacker in the game. A goal very similar to the one scored in the last minute against Udinese. On the penalty for Roma I want to say one thing to the football professors: Juan Jesus only had to accompany, not intervene. Then I have to hear certain things on TV. I don’t even understand why you play anymore. However, Natan can do worse than him. I didn’t understand why he arrived in Italy, we are the homeland of defenders and this doesn’t fit anything. Ostigard can play. I want to say another thing: concentration concerns the prefrontal cortex, distraction concerns the parietal lobe, if I am distracted I short-circuit concentration, exactly with Kvara, Anguissa”.
Jacques Pardi: “Napoli Basket mathematically out of the playoffs”.
Jacques Pardi, Basket Italy journalist, spoke on Radio Napoli Centrale, during Un Calcio alla Radio by Umberto Chiariello: “For Napoli Basket, one day from the end of the regular season, they can say goodbye to their playoff hopes. He saved himself very early, practically since March. Too relaxed? The victory in the Italian Cup certainly affected the immediately following matches. However, I believe that Napoli did much more than expected, rotating the 8 players on the roster, they ‘overperformed’. Relaxation and mental tiredness, rather than physical. Pullen has slowed down quite a bit in the last few games, yesterday we saw a good Sokolowski, Zubcic is the man who was missed the most in the second round in which he didn’t make an impact. Markel Brown has been a positive note, but in the last two months he has been affected by his knee.”
