Naples, Kvaratskhelia’s lumbago: Maradona treated her upside down

A direct confrontation at the gates and the champion with back pain. A story that repeats itself and that in Naples those belonging to a previous generation undoubtedly remember. For several hours the apprehension has spread to Castel Volturno. Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, the Georgian revelation with an overwhelming impact, stopped for acute low back pain, on the eve of the direct clash at the top with Atalanta and with two more games to play before the break for the World Cup.

He has not been called up for the away match in Bergamo and the real question at this point is: how many challenges will he miss? When, in short, will he be able to see him again on the pitch? The idea of ​​having to wait two months, after all, makes a bit of an impression even if in the end the races for which he would be unavailable are relatively few.

come diego

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Yet this feeling is not something new, quite the contrary. He accompanied Diego Armando Maradona for a long time, tormented by lumbar pain. Emilio Acampora, then the Azzurri’s social doctor who passed away last year, when the annoyance became more acute, he hung him on a bar, blocked his feet and left him hanging upside down for a while, as evidenced by the shot of the time by Sergio Siano, which also features the Argentine’s personal trainer, Fernando Signorini. If the problem was not solved, we moved on to infiltrations to allow him to play. The rumors that followed one another in this regard were, as usual, of the most varied. There were those who ventured that in reality they were all excuses to cover up absences due to an unruly life. Or who even spoke of a slipped disc, as happened before Napoli-Inter.

“The hernia of the cd”

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January 1989, Trapattoni’s Nerazzurri – who will then win the Scudetto – lead by 22 points and Bianchi’s team chases three points behind. At the end of the finishing, the Argentine stops to clarify the situation with the journalists present at the Paradiso center in Soccavo: “People who have a herniated disc are immobile, they suffer as soon as they move. Look at me instead. “hernia of the compact disc, for my passion for music. Seriously, I feel pretty good. I won’t be one hundred percent but maybe ninety-nine. I’ll be there against Inter and I think I can play well. But let me tell you. that I am shocked by all these rumors around me and at Napoli. I am a lack of respect towards working to take care of our health like Dr. Acampora and the physiotherapist Salvatore Carmando “. But beware of talking about conspiracies. “I do not mean that there are evil intentions, we have always been strong, it would not make sense to discover it only now and study some bad remedy” he is keen to emphasize. Here, too, the analogy does not escape: someone has insinuated that it is a gimmick to mask Kvaratskhelia’s discontent with the theft of his car, which was later found. That year Napoli won a Uefa Cup and the one after the second Scudetto. This time, who knows.