“I have always been and always will be Napoli’s first fan, even from a distance. When we win against Juve it’s always beautiful”: words and music by Lorenzo Insigne. The former captain of the Naples now a Toronto player, interviewed by Sports Courierspoke about his adventure in blue between memories, joys and some regrets: “As I have always said, I do not deny that I would have liked to win the championship, but unfortunately football is like that. This goes for me, but also for Koulibaly, Mertens, Hamsik, Albiol, Callejon, Jorginho, Allan, we would have deserved it too, but I am happy, in fact very happy that Napoli won it”.
The focus then shifted to Anthony Contenow sitting on the Napoli bench. “A beautiful effect” says Lorenzo Insigne, who is still a Napoli fan. According to the Neapolitan urchin, De Laurentiis worked magic by bringing the former Juventus player to the Azzurri and then an unusual comparison was made: “You work hard in retreat. I saw some videos of the Napoli players and I thought: ‘Poor things’. It’s like when I was with Zeman: at the beginning you suffered, but then on the pitch you went at double the speed of the others”.