MAREK HAMSIK
He was a boy when he was in Brescia,
misty city. Pier Paolo Marino told him about the sea and the sun of Napoli city, and the major project of a club, which three years before, was born from the ashes of a team that, after the happy seasons of Maradona, was experiencing sad years, those ones of Naldi and Corbelli. Very important north teams also had thought of him, but they let him go far, they did not believe to the qualities of the twenty year-old footballer who already in Brescia in Serie B, had shown unquestionable technical qualities and personality. He was a young penalty taker in a adults world.
It was the Napoli where they played Blasi, Lavezzi and Gargano, the captain Cannavaro, the Iezzo goalkeeper, who had reached its loved team a few years earlier, perhaps losing the national team. It was a newly promoted Napoli in Serie A, whose ultimate goal was to survive. Instead, it went further. So, it began the love story which lasts after many years. Some doubt for Marek, just in the period in which, a merchant of men, named Raiola, tried to remove him from “his land”, but the Slovakian annulled its proxy and changed the prosecutor. How many players would have done a thing like that, and how many others would do it? What a great number 100, it is nice to read, and also to pronounce it, it is the perfect number, it is not 3, any more…
The Hamsik career is still long, and it will be in Napoli. He scored as side midfielder, second striker, also as attacking midfielder, sometimes even as wing, maybe in the future he will score as defensive midfielder as well. He also would be able to score from the bench as well. 100 goals scored are a starting point, not an end point.