Passa ai contenuti principali

Rafa the second: Benitez tries again to win in Italy

Immagine
Di

The Spaniard coach has a great chance in Napoli after the bad experience at Inter

Marca, spanish Daily paper, said: "He was born to sit on the bench". In his career, he achieved significant national and international honors with Valencia, Liverpool and Chelsea. But now, Rafael "Rafa" Benítez wants to make history in Italy, in Serie A league. This will be his second italian experience, this time as manager of Napoli. He replaces Walter Mazzarri, who won the Italian Cup against Juventus (2012) and in the last season took Napoli to the second place in Serie A. In the 2013-2014 season, Mazzarri will guide Internazionale, the first italian team of Rafa. Crossed fate.

The Spaniard joined Internazionale after the departure of José Mourinho, winner of the first "treble" in Italian history (season 2009–2010). It was an hard experience to replace the unforgettable "Special one". In seven months, as coach of Nerazzurri, Rafa won Supercoppa Italiana (August 2010), lost to Atlético Madrid Uefa Super Cup and won Fifa Club World Cup against TP Mazembe, congolese football club. In December 2010 the team had only slumped 6th in Serie A, and some days before Christmas, Internazionale and Benitez separated "by mutual agreement".

Now Benitez can live an important experience in the shade of Mount Vesuvius, looking to the sea of the Gulf of Naples. Benitez felt at one's ease in the city immediately. "I'm latino" - he said - "but I'm also very conceptual". Napoli will restart with an important group and with his methodical philosophy. The polyglot Benitez is known as "an hard worker, tireless and 100% perfectionist". If Mazzarri liked 3-5-2 system of play, Benitez in this pre-season tried different solutions, but for the first friendly march at San Paolo Stadium (3-1 against Galatasaray and about 55.000 supporters) he chose his classic 4-2-3-1. If Edinson Cavani (78 goals in 104 matches with Napoli) joined Paris Saint-Germain - that used a payout cause of €64 million - Napoli replaced "El Matador" with the argentinian Gonzalo Higuaín, Real Madrid striker.

"El pipita" is feared for "for his speed in the last third of the pitch and his great striking ability". The other new football players (Pepe Reina, the goalkeeper; Raul Albíol, central defender José Maria Callejon and Dries Mertens, attacking midfielders) will meet a group whose leaders are Paolo Cannavaro, the captain, and the slovak Marek Hamsik. The football players see Benitez as a teacher.

For Aurelio De Laurentiis, Napoli Club President, Benitez is "a leader" who captivate with his capacity of convincing by his original point of view on football. Benitez and De Laurentiis want to get Napoli to the top in Italy and in Europe. The main opponent in Italy will be Juventus. The city of Napoli wants to dream and to win. If Benitez didn't have a Merry Christmas in Milan, he could have a crackling one in Napoli. Thanks to artisans Rafa Benitez is already a character of "presepe", the nativity scene.

Etichette:

Commenti

Posta un commento

Post popolari in questo blog

Al Maradona, il ritorno degli scugnizzi

Di
È la sera di venerdì 23 maggio 2025 quando allo Stadio Diego Armando Maradona di Napoli, nella curva B – quella raccontata da Nino D’Angelo a metà degli anni ’80 tra musica e film – appare una tela disegnata. Un drappo che si offre ad una schiera infinita di obiettivi che riverberano in tutto il mondo quell’immagine creata con l’intelligenza artificiale. Ancora qualche secondo e, dopo una lenta ed inesorabile dissolvenza di occhi e telecamere che sposta l’attenzione verso il centro del campo, l’attesa può avere fine. Il Napoli di Antonio Conte, emigrante salentino di ritorno al Sud, è finalmente pronto a scendere in campo contro il Cagliari in vista dell’ultima gara della stagione, decisiva per la vittoria del campionato. In quegli stessi istanti l’Inter, campione d’Italia in carica, tenta inutilmente di difendere il titolo della seconda stella nella manzoniana Como. I tifosi azzurri hanno deciso di accogliere così la squadra, con una narrazione visiva di sapore ottocentesco che vede a...
Posta un commento
Continua a leggere

Giallorosso hurricane. Juve and Napoli do their duty. Lazio, in the name of Klose

Di
Totti: "We have got balls!". Conte: "They are obscuring us". Perin looks like a young Buffon. Klose leaves his mark on Lazio's victory. Bologna and Livorno remember Morosini Roma are still the beautiful (and lucky) queen that are killing Serie A. Without Totti and Gervinho, the  Giallorossi win again. They did it suffering against a good Udinese that got back to lose at home after 22 matches. Luis Muriel , Colombian forward, was overwhelming but the  Giallorossi did nit concede any goal. They played in ten men for the entire second half  (red card for Maicon) and achieved the expected result with Michael Bradley, USA midfielder. Supporters crowded Fiumicino Airport. A sanguine Totti wrote on his website: "We have got balls!". Antonio Conte, Juventus coach, declared: " Giallorossi are obscuring Juve and Napoli too ". The  Partenopei and the  Bianconeri kept on doing their duty beating Torino and Genoa with the same r...
Posta un commento
Continua a leggere

Lo sguardo di Giancarlo Siani. Un dialogo con Isaia Sales

Di
In occasione del quarantennale dell’omicidio di Giancarlo Siani, per capire il contesto, le dinamiche sociali e criminali in cui Giancarlo si immergeva, abbiamo dialogato con lo storico Isaia Sales, tra i più importanti studiosi di camorra e crimine organizzato. Il 23 settembre del 1985 fa a Napoli veniva ucciso, a soli 26 anni, Giancarlo Siani, cronista abusivo de Il Mattino. In questi quarant’anni Siani è diventato il simbolo di un giornalismo, allo stesso tempo, precario, libero e coraggioso. A lui sono stati dedicati libri ( L’abusivo di Antonio Franchini, Scimmie di Alessandro Gallo, Un ragazzo normale di Lorenzo Marone), graphic novel ( Giancarlo Siani… e lui che mi sorride di Alessandro Di Virgilio ed Emilio Lecce), film ( E io ti seguo di Maurizio Fiume, Fortapàsc di Marco Risi).  Professor Sales, sono passati quarant’anni dall’omicidio di Giancarlo Siani. Cosa ricorda di quelle ore? Il fatto che si potesse ammazzare, a Napoli, un giovane cronista scatenò un sentimen...
Posta un commento
Continua a leggere