Simeone challenges Napoli as a former player: "I cried for four and a half hours on the train to Turin."

TURIN – Giovanni Simeone is preparing to face Napoli, the team that gave him unforgettable emotions. “My priority now is to focus on the match, but the saying 'in Naples you cry twice' is true.”, says the Torino striker on the eve of the match. Simeone recalls the day of his arrival at Napoli and the train journey to Turin: "When I left Naples to go to Turin, I asked myself, 'What message can I write?' The train ride lasted five hours, and I spent four and a half hours crying, thinking back to every moment."

Despite his nostalgia for the city and the friends he left behind, Cholito found harmony with Torino, appreciating the Granata spirit and the combative approach of the coach Marco Baroni.

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“Wherever he tells me to go, I go”, he says. His knowledge of the club's history, from the visit to Superga to the yet-to-be-explored Egyptian Museum, demonstrates Simeone's attention to the roots and culture of the Granata fans.

The player also talks about his private life and future fatherhood: "My wife is seven months pregnant. It will be a boy, conceived in Naples and born in Turin. The first gift will be a football, just like it was for me." Finally, a joke about Antonio Conte: “I realized how 'crazy' he is. During a training session in hail, he was yelling at us. A madman.”

Article published on October 17, 2025 - 16:28 PM - Vincenzo Scarpa