Comments on: Napoli – Argentina preview

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:06:19 +0000

From what I’ve read, a ruling on the Inter fan behavior will come out tomorrow. More disturbing than the banners that were displayed (indicating things like “Welcome to Italy” and “Napoli is a disease”) are the jeers Zalayeta got whenever he touched the ball. they were barely audible on the feed that came through my TV but reports indicate the typical monkey chants were leveled at Marcelo.

Jesusmothermaryandjoseph. It’s 2007. The fact that this goes on makes me sick to my stomach.

By: Karl

Karl — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 01:56:02 +0000

ok. no surprise here. with the money inter has on the pitch it would have been unrealistic to expect otherwise. let’s face it, even if my dog had to coach the neroazzuri they would still win. Personally I don’t have time and sympathy for this kind of teams. where’s the skill? where’s the vision, the genius? here’s the ’secret’: you get the list of the most valuable players in teh world and pick what you can. the fans are happy, you get the largest share of TV revenues and the team performs well (most of the times!!) .
What is waaaaay more disappointing is that once again we witness acts from other tifoserie that would cost napoli more bans and serious damage (the tifosi ban last week costed napoli approx. 700.000 euros in gate receipt and income, not the symbolic fines all other teams seem to pay). Lazio tifosi get busted with knives and machetes (nothing happens), Juve tifosi throw big ‘petardi’ (nothing happens), and now the inter tifosi show racist banners and sing racists slogans non stop through the whole match tonight and guess what is going to happen…
I agree with the analysis on this site re. the link with the camorra (well done, Joe). Everybody who has lived in Napoli knows this only too well. There’s no excuse and no room for that!
but now you wonder: where is the real mafia here?

By: Kshitiz

Kshitiz — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 20:25:24 +0000

2-1 the final score, hardly reflects the match though. Argentina completely outplayed Napoli

By: Taib

Taib — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 19:12:35 +0000

Internazionale are Cruzing at the moment. 2-0.

By: Marco

Marco — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 18:14:50 +0000

You know Joe… call me stupid, for a minute there I really thought that Napoli was off playing a friendly with Argentina or something.

It’ll be fun to see Lavezzi play against a few of his national teammates. Maybe he can shout something in Spanish to Javier Zanetti, and he’ll pass the ball back to him by mistake, allowing Lavezzi to score an easy goal. If he can get past Julio Cesar, that is (just another one of Inter’s players who’s been doing amazing lately).

By: FNU from BS

FNU from BS — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 04:13:29 +0000

SUPER POCHO VAIIIIIIIIIIIIII! Good stuff JOE.

By: Fabio

Fabio — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 04:02:06 +0000

Nice article, as always. It’s nice to see Napoli getting some kind of “spotlight” amongst all the bigger clubs. And i’m just happy I have Saturday off to watch the game. I haven’t seen Lavezzi play live at all this year so this should be damn interesting!

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 01:25:40 +0000

He’s been called up by Basile a few times already. I don’t think there’s any doubt that if he continues to progress, he may very well be a fixture for Inter…I mean Argentina.

He’s got pace, touch and vision. And to think, during the preseason there were rumblings he wasn’t in shape.

By: Linda

Linda — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 00:06:18 +0000

I’m very excited about Lavezzi’s development – a future star for Argentina, perhaps?

By: Martha

Martha — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 22:54:13 +0000

Joe, I really am excited about seeing Lavezzi, I was just reading about him today. I just wish it could be against some team I don’t care about, so I don’t have to be terrified every time he touches the ball.