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Serie A: Napoli president wants winning cycle to continue

Napoli president Aurelio de Laurentiis is determined this season’s Scudetto will not be a one-off.

De Laurentiis also says he won’t rush finding a replacement for title-winning coach Luciano Spalletti.

He said, “Last season we inaugurated a cycle and I hope it can go on for years. Now we must try to strengthen ourselves even more in Europe. The Champions League match in Milan or the Champions League match in Naples didn’t bother me much. I was very annoyed by the championship match played a few days earlier, against Milan, lost so badly.

“That baffled me. You can’t be Napoli, who play that type of league, and then with a very affordable team because they went out with Inter in the Champions League and scored far fewer points than us in the league. There may have been a referee oversight, some oversights by the VAR. And then there was our flaw in missing a penalty. If we didn’t miss a penalty we could have won by three and I don’t know how much.

“The league match against Milan upset me, I didn’t understand anything there anymore. I thought it wasn’t our team anymore. In the world of football we get used to saying ‘It’s OK’, but what’s that?! Are we kidding?! It shouldn’t be there, it can’t be there. That evening is perhaps the worst I have experienced in the last 18 years. I felt bad for the team, for the coach, for the fans, for us. You can’t get to such an important appointment in the championship like that.

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“Or one loses it so as not to make people understand anything in view of the Champions League, and strategically it can be a question, but there was no need to lose 4-0. I don’t like to see the stadium empty. That never pleases. I have seen international matches where the other side of the stadium was completely emptied after the defeat. It’s true that I did it in Beijing, refusing to participate, but there they had made it big. We’ve seen the report from 2005 onwards, on that type of habit, and it’s there, it’s history.

“I hope I have inaugurated a cycle, I will fight to ensure that this can repeat itself. Then we need to see how much the others get stronger, if there will be any hiccups, given that 2-3 players who get hurt are enough. I am a proponent of the battle against FIFA for the African Cup. I’ve always said that the dates are wrong, during the championship why do you have to take away 2-3-4 fundamental players? I’m talking about myself and also about the other clubs obviously, they’re everyone’s problems.

“There is still a lot to work with FIFA and UEFA from this point of view. There are some flaws. The States General of football should be opened for the next five years, in order to analyze many distortions that are not good for the fans who then get angry and are right.”

 

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