(by Arturo Minervini) – The feeling of those who, on time, must deal with preventive judgment is strange. Because now we fight more to defend our own. Downloaded. Before arriving, shortly after arriving, after having played for many years in the blue jersey. The thin thread of the revenge binds and unites Rino’s stories Gattuso, Hirving Lozano ed Elseid Hysaj, now smiling faces that have chewed the hardest morsel of bitterness under their jaws.
In Naples that has changed gears, there are scattered pieces of their stories. From Rino Gattuso, witness of a very heavy media legacy like the one left by Ancelotti, a double weight for those who in the shadow of the Calm Leader had grown up as a footballer, already planning a future on the bench. Perplexity, skepticism, even inappropriate words had accompanied the first Neapolitan steps of the Calabrian coach, now able to convince even the most skeptical with a beautiful as well as winning Naples.
Ancelotti was the sponsor of the other dumped in the limelight. Lozano arrives in blue at the behest of Carlo, but a confused Carlo tries to sew clothes of a different size on him. A long year of tribulation and controversy begins, with a suitcase never completely undone. Then the summer, Gattuso, the smiles, the belief that that first season can be archived as one ugly brackets. Now the Mexican looks at everything from a different, privileged perspective: the top scorer. What a revenge.
And finally Hysaj arrives. Less from the cover, not for this not functional to the victories. Moved to the left, it is giving unexpected balances, showing itself even more effective in the rare offensive sorties. His never ending story with Napoli is made up of ups and downs, goodbyes and starts, goodbyes announced and then postponed. Even with him Gattuso was clear: I want him to stay. And Elseid remained, to the point that now it seems difficult to imagine that Mario Rui could be in front of him in the internal hierarchies. It is the revenge of the discharged, it is a Naples that has something inside more than the others: the desire for redemption.
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