A video making the rounds online captures a moment that marks the end of the relationship between Khvicha Kvaratskhelia and Napoli: the Georgian winger on a nighttime visit to the Maradona mural in the Spanish Quarter.
With open arms, as if he wanted to embrace the image of the Pibe de Oro, Kvaratskhelia seems to say goodbye to the city that welcomed him with enthusiasm, but now ready to say goodbye. The footballer is now close to transferring to Paris Saint-Germain. It is not clear when the video was recorded, but many speculate that it could date back to the weekend, when the Neapolitan fans learned with disappointment of the footballer's desire to leave the city of Naples.
The emotion of the fans was also reflected in symbolic acts, such as the one that took place yesterday in Piazza Cavour, where a life-size cardboard cutout of Kvaratskhelia was thrown into the garbage bin, a clear sign of frustration for his imminent departure. The disappointment was also shared by the writer Maurizio De Giovanni, who expressed his disappointment on social media towards the footballer's gesture.
“You want something beautiful in your house, a new bookcase, a chest of drawers, a table. You find a very good carpenter, little known, who does a beautiful job that everyone admires. You pay him the agreed amount, he says goodbye and leaves”, wrote De Giovanni.
“We won’t shed tears. You have the right to go where your pocket takes you, we have the right to keep the chest of drawers. Remembering the professional, forgetting the ordinary man, frankly forgettable. In the story of our love we will keep something else. A crest, a seven that cuts, a crazy pocho, a Ciruzzo, the Uruguayan with long hair. They didn’t win anything but they won everything. They did. But what do you know? You’re just someone who made a nice chest of drawers.”
A thought that underlines the sad reality for many Neapolitan fans: kvaratskhelia, despite having given us memorable moments and a style of play that won over the public, will remain for some a simple "professional" who gave his best for a short period, but who is now leaving the city in search of new horizons.
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