Tonight the blues of Ancelotti play for Italy. Not only because they remained in contention alone in Europe, after the collapse of the Bianconeri. Not only because theirs is an extreme endeavor, those that can compact a certain national pride, against the British who, even in London , seemed more creative, more trained, more determined and more mature. But because, if Napoli surrenders tonight to the two goals ahead of Arsenal , it certifies that between Italian football and European excellence there is a distance on the short unbridgeable . Then that incompleteness, which mixes the old with the new and defends itself and claims as a sign of national identity, will appear a mold that has the smell and the taste of rancid things.
And everything, from the non-staged societies to the capital gains, from the illusionism of the prosecutors to the blackmail of the ultrs, from the sleep of the nurseries to the exasperated tactics of the hundred passages back to the goalkeeper, everything will be evidence of a insurmountable delay , of an unacceptable old age , of a undeniable virus .
CALLEJON: “WE HAVE A HISTORICAL CHANCE”
Tonight the Napoli can spread a analgesic balm on the evils of Italian football, or open the door of a universal judgment . And make an analysis of how late and how badly your system has grown no longer deferrable. About how low it has flown, following the defective models of the gigantism of the sheiks and foreign funds, instead of cultivating and enhancing its sports resources. Because the qualification of Ajax on Juve is a slap to the idea that the only possible future for football is in the figurines of Paris Saint Germain . It is the success of a sports philosophy that focuses on young people and of a football school that updates the primacy of its pioneering total football in the new glocal football geometries , in the tight and intoxicating triangulations of a group that is intends to remember.
Because it has invested in talent and understanding, and is capable with four twenty-year-olds of turning the opponent’s penalty area into a soccer field and hiding the ball from opponents before throwing it into door. Tonight Insigne will play to try, again, that he is not a half player, but rather a true champion, not always helped by the context. But it will also play to show that Kean, Barella, Chiesa, Zaniolo, Mandragora and Sensi are the offshoot of a great school that can still be reborn from the his ashes, and not the unrealistic utopia of a football that has remained provincial. The challenge of Napoli is therefore a double responsibility: to deny the eternal second syndrome , condemned by its soft character to always capitulate a step away from the goal. And keep the curtain of football that counts open, beyond the Easter Saturday of the eighth and obvious Juventus championship. It is a task as difficult as it is necessary to save a season and give the last alarm possible to a system called to change. No more subterfuges, no more imitations.
From: Corriere Dello Sport.
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