Spalletti ended his nightmare

He Naples made history by lifting its third Serie A. This was done after a clean period in which the names of Kvaratskhelia and osimhen They rise above others. Because it is clear, it is the team of two figures that the greats of Europe desire, but the great forgotten of this work is Luciano Spalletti.

From the second position, without making a noise, the Italian coach finally woke up from his nightmare and the 64-year-old. He had achieved what he had long been chasing off the bench, winning his country’s championship for the first time.

The road is long and full of stones. And it was that Spalletti there was a time when he was one of the most valued technicians in Italy, but the passage of time seems to have diluted that feeling. So after not getting his long-awaited Serie A he tried another adventure in Russia. He spent four seasons at the helm of St. Petersburg Zenith and there he was able to raise his first league. He did so as soon as he arrived (2010/11) and consecutively the following season (2011/12).

Although, not even those. The image that remains Spalletti This is the eternal second. And it is that up to four times he was on the verge of winning Serie A. Three of them with Rome, during Totti’s time, and consecutively too. The most difficult, without a doubt, was in the 2007/08 season. They had to touch it. A course where Spalletti changed the system, continued to attack and almost succeeded. And it was that he reached the last day a point below the leader Inter Milanbut those Roberto Mancini They did not disappoint in life or death where Rome allowed themselves to be tied against Catania.

But there is still another chance and, this time, after returning from Russia to make another attempt at Rome. There were two seasons, in 2015/16 he was third and in 2016/17, second again. No way. And it is, as happened on the previous occasion, again four points separated him in this case from the champion. Turin Juventus.

Gradually, this jinx began to be created Spallettithat before reaching Naples there is a step to Inter Milan with little success. And this is how Diego Armando Maradona came to the club, with serious doubts from some sectors about his ability to command the team. He cleaned them up early, after finishing third last year and showing that he was not a coach stuck in the football of the past, he became a champion. And with more merit because he had to overcome the departure of key players like Fabian, Insigne and Koulibalythe references of the team, which clearly show that, beyond the merit of Kvaratskhelia and osimhen, Spalletti deserves a nice slice of pie too.