Antonio Giordanohistorical signature of Corriere dello Sport, spoke to Radio Marte: “Di Lorenzo’s performance yesterday was disarming, perhaps the worst in his career with no possibility of appeal during the 90 minutes because he never gave the feeling of being able to appeal to oneself. There are many questions in cases like this because last night it wasn’t just one player who failed but everyone. Except Calafiori, a monumental Donnarumma and perhaps a bit of Barella, Italy did badly we must ask ourselves, above all the president, coach and sporting director. Di Lorenzo will turn 31 in August: faced with this identity card, faced with disarming downward peaks, it is time to insist on a tug-of-war that will only lead to confusion. of poison in the environment? Di Lorenzo’s regression seems disturbing to me, in its terms, contents and also in its manifestations.
I’m sorry because it may seem harsh towards the player and the agent but this is neither our case nor that of those who do this job who try to make lucid and not gut notes. It is clear that if you make certain reflections during the extension and renewal phase, you must also ask them now, during this ugly tug of war. If there is a project idea – which has always existed in Napoli except last year, when De Laurentiis completely destroyed it – now that this project is about to restart you are seriously forced not to make any mistakes. And Di Lorenzo’s 31 years in August are quite a few. I think that Mazzocchi is a good person who is realizing a dream that he honestly achieved on the pitch, I think he was unlucky because it happened at the worst moment in which a boy of his sporting principles would have deserved. Now he has to play because there is a great coach of international stature who has got everyone to agree. The chatter about Di Lorenzo, in my opinion, didn’t influence last night’s performance. For me, Spalletti remains a great coach, or rather a great one, a visionary who wrote the history of Napoli. You can’t be in love with a person only as long as he sits on the bench and plays with your shirt because otherwise lack of culture advances terribly.”
