“Spalletti’s Italy disappointed, the coach proved to be presumptuous and I think that when he spoke he didn’t make himself understood too well by the team. He showed that being a selector is one thing, being a coach is another: the first is like a university professor, the second is an elementary school teacher. Well, he is a great elementary school teacher and this is not a ‘diminutio’, on the contrary. In the last 20 years also – said the sports director Henry Faithful on Radio Marte during Forza Napoli Always ‘summer edition’ – we have not had great talents: I wonder, except Donnarumma, who is predestined, which players are world-class? And which Italian players can play in big European clubs? In Italy there is a lack of talented players of the last 20 meters: it is our fault that we have always preferred physicality to technique. These European Championships are demonstrating that the players who have learned the technique on the street are the ones who decide. They determine those who skip the man, Italy does not have them… And the very young talents, like Camarda or Pafundi, do not play, like the Under 17 boys who won the European Championships with the Neapolitan Favo. The Growth Decree, then, has certainly favored the hiring of foreigners over Italians.
Speaking of Napoli, I am afraid of the president’s statements… When I hear him say that now he has to look at the Scugnizzeria, then I think that we are faced with another electoral proclamation and I ask myself why he says certain things right now… How can he really make the Scugnizzeria, if there is not a single pitch that belongs to Napoli?! But please… Can we stop making proclamations?”
