De Laurentiis: “I keep the big names and would like an American and a Japanese. Spalletti? A leader”

“If I'm sure I can keep all the big ones at Napoli next year? Not only that: I would like to add more.

I would like to have an American, because in America even if the championship is worth little there are great players who shine in the national team. And then a Japanese, already having a Korean, since there is a great development of our football in the East and there are new entries to consider.

But I wouldn’t want to send any of our people away.”

The president of Napoli declares this Aurelio De Laurentiis in an interview with Repubblica. From the owner words of praise for Luciano Spalletti, “a leader, a great storyteller: everyone should study him, there is always something to learn from him. I would ask the Minister of Education to imagine a couple of one-hour lessons per month, where the Spalletti or l 'Ancelotti of the situation begins to tell students, from elementary to high school, what a match is, what a module means, what the roles of the players are”.

The president of Napoli Italian champion, sends a message to the Minister of Education Valditara inviting him to implement concrete actions for the kids “who are not protected by proper parenting, partly out of convenience, partly out of ignorance.” According to De Laurentis, “it would be enough to take the last one World Cup Final, Argentina-France, and dissect it to explain what a 4-4-2 or a 4-3-3 is, what the difference is between a central striker or a second striker, between a 3-man and a 4-man defence.

This would bring young people closer to football: they would all eventually become super experts and could pretend to be the coaches or commentators, amused and entertaining, of any virtual broadcast of a match".For the president of Napoli, “Football is the oldest game in the world, so old that thinking it should stay the way it is is wrong.”

De Laurentiis: “In Italy there is a problem with stadiums”

And he lists the problems: “First of all, we have a huge problem with the stadiums: with a few rare exceptions, they are obsolete, the match is difficult to watch, there is an athletics track, like in Naples or Rome”. Then De Laurentis asks himself: “Do we want to bring our families?

Maybe the Church might be worried, but it would be enough to set up a blessed altar, we did it in retreat at Dimaro: how many times has it come Cardinal Sepe to officiate the mass and no one was ever scandalized?

For De Laurentiis, in short, the stadium must be considered a "community" place against the concept of “virtual stadium”: “We have to be able to win back young people. And fight piracy, which killed us: in eight years it took us from the 4 million 300 thousand subscribers we had to 900 million XNUMX thousand.

 “We need a law against audiovisual piracy”

I hope that Meloni manage to pass the new law against piracy without ifs, buts, or conditioning from large groups that would most likely instead want the green light on the web without any imposition or blockage", hopes the president of Napoli, Champion of Italy.

Finally a judgement on the “Melandri law” for sports: “I feel sorry because you, who studied I think in the United States – says De Laurentis – did not have an awareness of the American dream and transferred it to the Italian dream. In the cinema you massacred us.

Our penultimate minister Franceschini gave us dignity by providing us with an extremely important fund to relaunch the Italian audiovisual industry. Melandri had killed him.

In football he made a law that strangles: this is why big clubs like Inter, Juventus, Milan, Roma can't make it with their balance sheets".

Therefore, the President concludes, “I ask Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, since there are 28 million voters who are passionate about football, to sit down with us for five minutes and liberalize the model to be able to obtain a turnover that makes everyone happy and competitive, without debts”