TMW Radio
To the microphones of TMW Radio during Maracana, the coach intervened Gigi De Canio who focused mainly on the excellent start of Antonio Conte’s new Napoli:
Conte tries to hide Napoli for the Scudetto fight, trying to remove some pressure:
“Certainly Conte is practical, he starts from Napoli last year and to put things right he has to work on them. He has the advantage that he doesn’t have the cups and will be able to work on them more, then there’s him who can fill any gaps that may exist But Antonio has always played to win, he trains to win and when you’re in this situation, everyone expects certain results from him just because he arrived, according to the Neapolitans he should be able to win it’s not like that. We need a lot more. We need the players, a club and an environment that has the maturity to accompany the team to certain results.”
History, according to his thinking, matters.
“Conte talks about history and it is sacrosanct. History means that teams like Juve, Inter, Milan, which account for more than 90% of the championships won, are the ones who start out every year as protagonists, because history says so. Napoli is a ‘outsider. The ADL management has earned itself an important role in recent years, but being consistently successful is another thing. When Conte says that the players were nervous at the start against Monza, that is proof of what a team can do go into difficulty not being used to winning. Wanting to win against an opponent within their reach, they make this mistake which is typical of a team that doesn’t yet have a strong awareness of their strength.”