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Italian Super Cup: the president of Naples wants to relocate the match planned in Saudi Arabia

Napoli club owner Aurelio De Laurentiis said on Tuesday he wanted the Italian Super Cup to be played in Italy rather than the Arabian Gulf, following the outbreak of war between Israel and the movement.

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Italian Super Cup: the president of Naples wants to relocate the match planned in Saudi Arabia

Napoli club owner Aurelio De Laurentiis said on Tuesday he wanted the Italian Super Cup to be played in Italy rather than the Arabian Gulf, following the outbreak of war between Israel and the movement. Palestinian Islamist Hamas.

Italian champions Napoli are one of four teams who will contest the Super Cup in the Gulf country in January, along with Lazio, Inter Milan and Fiorentina.

Italian media reported that Napoli and Fiorentina were prepared to boycott the tournament, but Aurelio De Laurentiis said he simply wanted the event relocated to Italy for fear that a trip to Saudi Arabia would be dangerous.

“Have you seen what’s happening in Israel? There could be an air blockade over these regions,” De Laurentiis said, quoted by the Italian news agency ANSA, during a round table organized by a university in Rome.

“How can you think about putting 120 players, who are worth what they are worth, on a plane? All this to make a few million more? Let’s do it at the Stadio Olimpico (in Rome, Editor’s note),” said the president of the Neapolitan club, renowned for his outspokenness.

“It’s not that I want to boycott it. I only asked that we think about it (moving the test),” he added.

Before this season, the Super Cup pitted the Serie A champion against the winner of the Italian Cup (Inter Milan beat AC Milan in the last edition in Riyadh in January).

This season, it will bring together the two teams that came first in the previous championship with the two finalists of the Italian Cup, as part of a change similar to that made to the Spanish Super Cup.

The Super Cup was initially scheduled to take place from January 4 to 8, 2024, but at the request of the Saudi authorities, it was rescheduled to January 21 to 25.

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