• Napoli returns to smile: 4-0 at the Genk and eighths won

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11 December 2019Rino Gattuso is in Naples. The adventure of the coach on the bench of the Neapolitan team begins, replacing Carlo Ancelotti, who was dismissed last night. Gattuso, who arrived at the Capodichino airport around 12.30, immediately went to the sports center in Castel Volturno where he met the president Aurelio De Laurentiis and the sports director Cristiano Giuntoli. Today the technician will direct his first training session, in the late afternoon the presentation to the press has been fixed.

An announced change
A goodbye maybe written. A change of guard that was in the air after the blues retreat. Carlo Ancelotti is no longer the Napoli coach. The technician from Reggiolo gives way to his friend-brother Gennaro Gattuso. Aurelio De Laurentiis has decided to change in the race despite the qualification to the knockout stages of the Champions League. The president realized that there were no longer any conditions to keep the man who along with Bob Paisley and Zinedine Zidane won more European Cups (three) on the bench.

On the night of 5 November he opened a gash in the Neapolitan group after the no to the retreat ordered by the property. From that moment on, Ancelotti lost the helm and found himself no longer winning a game for a long time. Udine was expecting a revival but the first half highlighted the coach's difficulties in managing training and the technical-tactical aspect. In the second half there was a nervous reaction but the final equal did not satisfy anyone. Not even Ancelotti, who on the eve of the challenge with the Genk admitted: "The suitcase is always ready".