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And three! As if hosting FC Barcelona in the Champions League was not already a complicated enough task, Naples, Italian champion in complete disarray, changed coach on Monday, two days before the round of 16 first leg against the Catalan giant. The Napoli players will therefore discover a third coach since the start of the 2023-24 season.
After the Frenchman Rudi Garcia, dismissed in mid-November four months after his arrival and replaced by Walter Mazzarri, it is the turn of Francesco Calzona to try to revive a club which, left behind in the championship (9th, the ranking here) and eliminated from the Italian Cup, already only has the Champions League to save its season. “I thank Walter Mazzarri, friend of the De Laurentiis family and Napoli, for supporting the team in a complicated moment,” wrote club president and owner Aurelio De Laurentiis on his X account (ex-Twitter). “He will remain in the hearts of Neapolitans and our family. Welcome back among us to Francesco Calzona, who has already worked with us,” he added, thus confirming the arrival of the new coach, announced by the Italian press.
Like Mazzarri, Calzona, 55, knows the Neapolitan club well having been Maurizio Sarri's assistant for three seasons, between 2015 and 2018, then having spent the 2020-21 season alongside Luciano Spalletti, the coach. of the 2023 coronation who, exhausted, immediately left the club, before becoming Italy coach. Calzona therefore knows the pressure inherent to the role, with heated and very demanding fans, and an omnipresent president-owner who even interferes in team composition.
The film producer decided to stop the Mazzarri experiment after his team's home draw (1-1) against Genoa on Saturday. The Italian technician's record is bad, even worse than that of Rudi Garcia: under his leadership, Napoli only earned fifteen points in twelve league matches (1.25 points per match), compared to 21 points in as many matches. (1.75 per match) for the French coach.
While Naples was 4th in mid-November when he took office, the azzurro club is now 9th in Serie A, with 27 points less than the leader, Inter Milan! It is nine points behind Atalanta which occupies 4th place, the last qualifier for the next C1, the minimum objective assigned to a team which had topped last season to offer itself its first national coronation in 33 years and reached the quarter-finals of the Champions League.
The Neapolitan squad, however, remained largely unchanged despite the summer desires of European big names for the Nigerian Victor Osimhen, the Georgian Khvicha Kvaratskhelia or the Pole Piotr Zielinski. But Osimhen, top scorer for the 2022-23 season (26), has only played 13 of his team's 24 league matches with an output reduced to seven goals. The “masked striker” may have extended his contract at the end of December, but it is already certain that he will leave Naples at the end of the season, with a possible destination of Paris-SG or the Premier League.
Calzona will only have one training session on Tuesday to get to know his players and prepare for a complicated match against the reigning Spanish champion, even if Barça, 3rd in La Liga, is not at their best. In its Diego-Armando-Maradona stadium, Naples is very fragile and has conceded five defeats in the league, seven in all competitions. “We also had to take our fans into account and give them something more,” said De Laurentiis to explain his incredible poker move.
