“This year there are endless mistakes, but Napoli did more than their part in the Champions League.”

“This year there are endless mistakes, but Napoli did more than their part in the Champions League.”


At Radio Napoli Centrale, during ‘Un Calcio alla Radio’, journalist Umberto Chiariello spoke to his editor.

A Radio Napoli Centraleduring ‘Un Calcio alla Radio’, journalist Umberto Chiariello intervened with his editorial: “Let’s analyze the situation in European football. In the quarter-finals, not a single Italian reached the Champions League. In the starting line-up of the quarter-finals there were 3 Spanish, 2 English, 2 German and the French team, the usual PSG that is not going anywhere. Circumstances tell us this: that if Real Madrid succeed in the very difficult task of coming out on top against City – who are the favorites – and Atletico Madrid resist in Dortmund and Barcelona pass PSG, it may happen that we see 3 Spanish teams out of 3. in the semi-finals . The English team can achieve an impressive hat-trick: the three teams competing to win the Premier League can all reach the semi-finals with Liverpool in the Europa League, and City and Arsenal in the Champions League. The Germans, along with Leverkusen in the Europa League, can all reach the semi-finals. Spanish, English and German summits could reach the end of Europe. The thought that comes to mind, therefore, is that there are three Nations that are taking the field by force and we are looking.

Can we say, however, that Napoli came out to make the best impression? The mistakes of management this year have been big, it’s true, but whoever said that this is the poorest Barcelona in history should shut up. Predictions are not correct, of course, this year I was wrong, but when you see Barcelona playing second place in the league, you see what they bring, what are we talking about? Napoli had to do a miracle. Let’s stop, we’d rather say congratulations to Napoli in the Champions League who did their part and something more.“.