The one between Walter Mazzarri and the Naples it was a beautiful, engaging and passionate relationship. The Tuscan coach arrived at a difficult time for the Campania club but in a short time the team began to take on the character of the San Vincenzo coach and began to become an important reality in Serie A and at European level. The former blue coach spoke in a forum at the Jambo Shopping Center in Caserta on the occasion of the photo exhibition on Diego Armando Maradona and to the question “Coming back, would you leave Naples?” Mazzarri replied in the negative and explained some concepts in a very simple way: “What if I regretted leaving Napoli? At that moment it seemed the right choice to make. I had been there for four years, I had players at my disposal that I had created almost all of me, they were boys. Hamsik came from Brescia, Cavani from Palermo, the Pocho Lavezzi from Argentina “.
Mazzarri built an important team plant and made footballers like Marek Hamsik, Ezequiel Lavezzi and Edinson Cavani. At the end of the 2012/2013 championship he left the blue club after a second place with 78 points and the second direct qualification to the group stage of the Champions League in three seasons. The coach married Inter but after a good first year the situation deteriorated and he was sacked at the start of the second season. Mazzarri focused on the reasons for that moment in his choice and on how his period was preparatory for the growth of the club: “When you come up with everything after four years or you change places or you have to change a lot of players. Of course, in light of how things went then, I can say that it probably would have been better never to leave, but I am happy when you say that also thanks to those four years it was then possible to go and buy from Real Madrid. Before, we only bought players from Bologna or from non-top-tier clubs. Naples has remained in my heart, maybe one day we will meet again. “