A radio Napoli Central, during Umberto Chiariello's Un Calcio alla Radio, spoke Monica scozzafava, journalist of the Corriere del Mezzogiorno: “In my year at Napoli, there was Mazzarri come allenatore.All’epoca la comunicazione era già importante, non come oggi, ovviamente, io cercavo di dargli una mano”.
"Mazzarri he is anxious and frenetic in everything, he is the man who takes off his jacket, who looks at his watch, he is on the bench, but as if he were playing, he is like that in character and this aspect of his also came out in his relationship with journalists, but I don't feel like saying that he was anxious about the press conference, on the contrary, he listened to me a lot when he understood that he could trust me".
“Talking today about the Mazzarri of yesterday is not entirely right, the world has changed, football has changed and the coach has a completely different team today.
I expect a Mazzarri 2.0 with very strong players, it will be up to him to create or recreate the team and he is very motivated, he started dictating his rules yesterday".
“I would be very happy if it did some good to Napoli, it would be a nice journalistic story to tell, a story from a novel. The swings of moods are there, Mazzarri also arrives tempered from this point of view, compared to 10 years ago: in Milan he suffered all sorts of things, in Turin not so much, in Cagliari his story ended up in court.
A different Mazzarri is coming”.
“Why did his career come to a standstill? He has always admitted that choosing Inter was a mistake.
So he was definitely in the wrong place at the wrong time. In Turin he didn't do badly, on the contrary, he set a record for points.
My relationship with De Laurentiis? For me it was complicated being an employee of an employer who imposes a line on you, who has difficulty delegating and you have to keep up with him”.
“In the final phase of the experience, I considered it one of the most important of my career, I continue to thank him also for the horizons that he opened up for me.
Garcia? In my opinion, he failed because he positioned himself badly.
In his desire to leave his mark, his imprint, he reset everything that had been done up until the day before."
“He also said it when he admitted that he didn't know the club and team's past, adding that he wanted to leave his mark. It must be said, however, that doing what Napoli did last year would probably have been difficult for Spalletti too.
In the end, however, Garcia put up a wall and isolated himself."
“The most likeable player? Between Aronica and Paolo Cannavaro.
Humanly the best, truly generous, I say Lavezzi, a great person, despite all his excesses. He has something extra.
Cavani is a bit silent, apparently introverted, inscrutable. To conclude, I think Mazzarri must give the team a new soul”.
Article published on November 16, 2023 - 19:30
