The journalist spoke during Radio Napoli Centrale Umberto Chiariello with his editorial on the Italian national team: “Italy has suffered a sensational lesson from Spain. There have been other negative matches for Italy, but not with a national team handed over to the opponent like this. A feeling of impotence as strong as the one I have felt it first hand against Spain, I have never felt it. If instead of Spalletti, who for us Neapolitans is worthy of a statue at the station in place of Garibaldi, there had been Ventura or Donadoni we would have massacred them.
I have a question for Spalletti: but was it worth it to leave a winning Napoli to take on a national team project that leads you to make these figures? Was it worth it? Posterity will judge. Mazzarri wrote a book ‘The best is yet to come’ when he left Naples to join Inter, speaking almost like Guardiola’s equal… This 1-0 is one of the most deceitful in history. Donnarumma took away the slaps from us, we were humiliated anyway, but imagine what damage a 4-0 or 5-0 would have caused? He saved them all, the Spaniards didn’t score in the end. We saw the level of our football.”
