Article by Daniel Scorpie – published on Saturday, May 24, 2025, 12:33 / Updated on Saturday, May 24, 2025 12:41
The title conquered by Antonio Conte with Naples, contrary to all the forecasts, was, indeed a football masterpiece. The slogan taken over the record champion with three teams, “Who wins writes history, others can at most read it!”, It is perfectly folded on the historic performance. Just made in the city for which football is like air and in which hundreds of thousands of azzuri fans have flooded the streets with a lava of happiness, as if poured out of the heart of the bladder and raised above, at the great Diego.
And Maradona, whose statue was comforted by Antonio Conte, before his entrance to the lawn to receive his well-deserved medal, he probably enjoys a generation capable of equalizing his great achievement in Naples. Now, however, Captain Giovanni di Lorenzo and his colleagues have managed to win two scudetti every two years.
I was among the few who believed, and I don't try to boast, that Naples will be reborn as Phoenix from your own ashes and can put your hand on the title. Because Scrum was the band entrusted to Conte in the summer, after a miserable place 10, which, as Antonio said, “was because of the bad luck, chance or other factors, but it is the expression of the value of the lot!”.
Antonio Count writes history, after the title gained with Naples in series A / Photo: Getty Images
“Count de Monte Tristo” is the magician near Vezuviu
Nine months ago, I wrote that the task (completed at the term) of the technician, which by Laurentiis was known in Maldives and wanted to bring him since October 2023, will be a toxic one. But the “Count of Monte Tristo”, which after the catastrophic onset, 0-3 in Verona, complained about the lot and that the hospitalized patient will not go out of intensive care if no urgent infusions are made, it has been transformed into the hero admitted to Naples.
I apologize to supporters, but my heart is crying and bleeding. I hope to bleed and others, otherwise the patient's condition is serious! I am ashamed how I played in Verona! If we are not in the zero year, we still find extremely close. A total rebuilding is required, and our mercato is frozen!
Antonio ConteNapoli's coach after the first stage
The man of this miracle believed in his dream and was the best transfer of the new champion. As Scott Mctminay was the best player of the season. The Scottish saved from United and brought to the insistence and skill of Count kept by the word given upon his arrival at the airport. He really came to win, not take pictures! As with Romelu Lukaku, Antonio's soul gladiator, the silent goalscorer, Buongiorno, Gilmour and the rest of the pieces of a successful Puzzle.
The best paid coach in series A started on the road with the weakest batch of all the teams that could aspire to the crown with laurels. And he managed to make magic in the fight with the former champion, more experienced, mature, more homogeneous and developed at almost all chapters.
Antonio Conte gave free rein to the emotions and joy after the fifth title in the greenhouse as a coach, the only one with three different teams / photo: Imago
Absence in Europe decided the duel with older rivals
However, a detail was very important, if not even decisive, and which I emphasized from the beginning. Napoli has not evolved in Europe and Count was able to implement all ideas for training. And he had time to think the best team and game formula, proving malleable to use five systems during the 38-stages tired marathon.
He said, throwing arrows to Inter, that in such an endurance competition, the merits of the team matters, not that you were lucky in drawing lots, that there were fewer parties, that he helped you and so on. It alludes to the fact that the Nerazzurii arrived in the Champions League final, but missing Logdetto. This is exactly what Simone Inzaghi's band, the oldest of Serie A, was terribly squeezed, while Naples had time to recharge his batteries and cross the first line, with a head in front.
I was saying that Antonio Conte started his project not from the foundation, from the ground floor, but from the basement. He did not expect the situation to be so bad, but he was shaking his sleeves, he got to work. He knew how to motivate his players like no one else and took their pressure on his shoulders, attracting all the negative criticism and energies on him.
Conte fought with the counterproductive choices of the employer!
He was the one who fought with the windmills and the curious decisions, not to mention mercantile and counterproductive, of the owner. De Laurentiis brought him very late the songs he asked in the summer and left him with his mouth shut in winter, when he sold Kvaratskhelia. And of the 70 million collected from PSG, it was delivered to Plombe, not a holder on the extreme severely discovered!
Scott Scott Mctminay, 12 goals and 6 Assists in Serie A, was chosen the MVP of the season / photo: IMAGO
Conte wanted to prove to the owner that he can take the title, after attacking it: “I understood that some things cannot be done here.” But he did it, as it is very good. Assessing the second most hermetic defense in the top 5 in Europe and a median trident hard to find in many teams, Anguissa, Lobotka, Mctminayperfect combination of muscles, geometry and tactical intelligence.
And, last but not least, he did without even having a goalscorer with the statistics of Retegui, Kean, Lautaro or Thuram. And Big Rom took his 30 million paid by Naples – never by Laurentiis has paid so much money for a 30+ player – as Buongiorno deserved similar investment, even Billing. The Danish, borrowed from Bournemouth, signed the equalization in the last derby with the non -rivals, in what (Count Dixit) meant “the turning moment of the season, the goal without which Inter could not be reached.”
Napoli has been the champion with the fewest goals scored since he went to the system with 20 Series A teams! He won the most matches at the limit, but he also had the most with the immaculate gate. He suffered against the small opponents, but he also exceeded the limits in duels in which Outsider left, looking like a big team.
Conla and from them were seen, they liked, what remains to be done?
She was kept alive by Pedro, with the penalty in the extensions on Meazza, and showed that she had two hearts in her chest. As he had Count at the match with Cagliari: one in the lodge in which he exiled the “red” received at Parma and another on the reserve bench. “Core e anima”, the slogan of the Napolitan typhose taken after a hit launched in Sanremo, was the recipe of the triumph of Antonio Conte. Or consistent.
The farewell embrace with Aurelio de Laurentiis or the step towards the desired upgrade by Antonio Conte? / Photo: Imago
Some acute and legitimate questions are being asked. Will the coach's story between the coach and the owner continue? Will Antonio be returned from the road to return to Juventus? Will Laurentiis convince him to stay and make a team of the league level? The employer does not love him until death, but he would not want to lose him.
The statement given last night, in the euphoria of success – “We will be happy if he wants to stay with us, but it is not an obligation. Even if he has a contract, I cannot hold a coach” -is at two heads. But Antonio Conte is not duplicitous. Either he receives what he asked for, a budget of 200 million euros in Mercato, eight-new valuable players and salary fund increased by 20 million, or basta!
What was his duty, Count delivered. He held his promise made to the fans. Now the ball is in the field of the one who directed the Oscar film of this palpitant Italian season. It remains to be seen if it will be a series or just a Netflix documentary.
