The former Siena and Parma striker Reginaldo spoke to Kiss Kiss Napoli on the program “Il calcio della sera”: “Conte? I had the coach and I know how he works, if he wants to keep Kvaraskhelia and Di Lorenzo with the players’ willingness to stay and make themselves available, with the players he requests, it’s normal that they can have fun. He is someone who makes you work hard but you play matches with “cigarettes in your mouth” because in the match your legs are free. But if the players want to leave for reasons of money or because a cycle with the club has ended, then at that point they must be given the opportunity to leave. Then on the market we will have to please Conte, perhaps with the money from those transfers, every coach has those four/five players that he wants to take everywhere and in my opinion this is right. Napoli is only afraid of finding players ready to play in Italian football, whereas those already in the squad are used to it and ready to do well, also because Conte doesn’t want to make a bad impression. I remember that we were on a punitive retreat in Messina, and I took a 24-hour flight from Brazil to return to Italy and I didn’t expect to have to do all the hard work straight away, and I showed up already trained in Brazil anyway. I was expecting lighter work but instead he made me do additional blocks to reach the training threshold. I protested and Conte immediately sent me to the shower and I didn’t want to see him again, then Perinetti and Faggiano managed to make me see reason and we mended the tear. The following year I met him as an opponent when he was at Juventus and we greeted each other affectionately and he also gave me a lot of advice, because as a person he is exceptional and I must say that if at forty I still play I owe it to the mentality he taught me.”
