“The boys were crying, I wanted to destroy everything”: Sarri recalls Napoli’s Scudetto “lost in the hotel”

"My scudetto at Juve? It was a journey of great suffering. I shouldn't have left Chelsea"

ROME – Maurizio Sarri remembers the infamous Scudetto lost by Napoli “in the hotel”. The night of Inter-Juventus, experienced by Napoli in a hotel in Florence. He tells to Corriere della Sera, with the serenity of those who in the meantime have processed the trauma, defusing it with a title at Juve, a move to the Premier League and then the adventure at Lazio. “You can laugh all you want, but that’s how it went. There was a sensational mistake, later recognized, by one of the best referees, Orsato, in Inter-Juventus. We were in retreat in the hotel: I left my room pissed off black, I wanted to break everything, but I had to cheer up the boys. I saw them sitting on the stairs of the hotel, they were crying. It was already too late: we lost against Fiorentina and the scudetto went to Juve”. p>

Speaking of championships and Juve…, his arrival in Turin was experienced as a betrayal by the Neapolitans: “It was a journey of great suffering, complete with arguments in the family. Let’s say that as a Napoli fan I struggledI shouldn’t have left Chelsea, that’s it. The best stories in football are those in which we didn’t win. I didn’t always have an easy relationship with De Laurentiis, but I will always thank him for giving me the chance to coach the team I supported as a child. I will buy a house in Naples.”

Then he analyzes the moment of stasis in his career. After Lazio no one has called him yet: “We’re focusing on young people, and that’s good too. But experience remains a value, it shouldn’t be thrown away. Just look at the age of the coaches who won the Conference, Europe and Champions League: 63, 66 and 65 years old. It’s not a coincidence. Then, of course, if no one looked for me it was probably because I did something wrong too, an intimate reflection must be made.”