Naples, Rome and Inter: when a coach changes your life. For the Giallorossi it was the third, dramatic attempt: after the flops of Luis Enrique and Zeman, the first coaches of the new American course, the square would never have accepted another failure. But the French Rudi Garcia, former coach of Lille and certainly the least accredited (on paper) of the three chosen to win and convince, is not failing at all: 4 victories out of 4 (very far from the debacles of the Enrique-Zeman era) and more the beautiful game, which therefore is not only the prerogative of losers but, as Spain teaches, is the way forward to achieve success.
The Napoli fans are also enjoying their supremacy after four days of the championship: not that things had gone badly with Mazzarri, and indeed the very painful victory at San Siro showed that much progress is still to be made in terms of the game, but Rafa Benitez actually seems to have given an already mature team an edge. If only for the fact, which cannot be trivialised, of the arrival of Madrid players Albiol, Callejon and Higuain, immediately protagonists, and of goalkeeper Reina, a surprise hero in Milan saving the penalty from the infallible former Balotelli: all players who, with previous management, perhaps they would never have even considered marrying in the shadow of Vesuvius.
Finally, speaking of Walter Mazzarri, also his regenerated Inter close to becoming Indonesian: last year it would have been unthinkable to speak well of players like Jonathan and Alvarez, and instead the Tuscan coach is designing the team in his image and likeness and re-evaluating some players who definitely seemed to be sent elsewhere. Result? Napoli, Roma and Inter like them and command Serie A. Still early, but who would have thought?
