The goals of McTominay and Lukaku unleashed a dusty in Naples, which finished exploding when the referee whistled the end of the game. : They had won him at home, against Cagliari, depending on themselves and the last day of the championship, in an unusually equalized season. The victory was epic, played until the last breath with Inter Milan, the second on the list, which the title was played at the same time against him as in another game and also won, but was just one point of the champion. It was also a battle between the north and the south, much less accustomed to the league titles, two worlds in one country.
The accumulated tension was immense and exploded with a rumble of fireworks, firecrackers, flares and accelers of a swarm of motorcycles that unleashed collective madness. The sky became red by pyrotechnics and people threw themselves into mass streets in a city consecrated to football that became a great party that will last days.
With this there are already two league titles that the team has conquered and second pattern of the city, with the permission of San Gennaro. On Saturday, hundreds of fans continued to sing on the ‘altars’ of the city dedicated to the Argentine star that so many afternoons of glory, national and international, gave the city.
The triumph transcends football. It is also a more impoverished social victory in front of the North Prospero and represents the hopes and ambitions of an entire region. This is the fifth Championship That goes to the meridion in the recent history of Serie A, four have stayed in Naples and one in Cagliari.
Naples shows by the soccer and for its only great team a madady mass passion. It is a complex phenomenon that goes beyond sports preferences and that also has to do with identity, with redemption, with the strong link of the city with its people, with the pride of a people and with the idea of revenge after decades of disappointments. This explains, in part, the collective ecstasy that is unleashed in the city partanepea to support your team.
More than fifty thousand fans followed the party, who joined hundreds of thousands of people who gathered throughout the city to see the competition on the giant screens that the City Council had installed at different points.
Naples woke up on Saturday as champion of Italy after a first night of celebrations that resulted in four arrests and almost a hundred injured, according to local media, one by white weapon and the rest for burns caused by pyrotechnics and excess alcohol. With the precedent of hundreds of injured and a deceased in the celebrations of the 2023 league title, the authorities have arranged a gigantic security device for these days, in which the party continues, at least until Monday, when the players will travel the city aboard the bus to show the trophy to the fans. On Tuesday, according to the president of the team, Aurelio de Laurentiis, the players blue They will visit the Pope.
The Naples Prefecture has indicated that between the city and the province a million people took to the streets on Friday night. The vice president of the Senate, Gian Marco Centinaio, raised the controversy with a Facebook post that he later deleted, in which he reported “120 injured, aggressions, robberies, guns and knives.” “Something is going wrong. And thankfully they have won, otherwise a civil war would have exploded,” he said. The mayor of Naples, Gaetano Manfredi replied in a press conference in which he defended the “civilized” example that the city had given. “There have been nine robberies throughout the metropolitan area and there have been no red codes, a few people who felt bad, just someone who had drunk too much, an extraordinary civilization, we give the merit that Naples deserves, a city that has grown greatly. We are proud to be Neapolitans, proud of how everyone has behaved, proud of the city’s response,” he said.
“I have no intention of offending Naples or Neapolitan fans, among which, in addition, there is my son. But we must distinguish between hobby, vandalism and pure and hard crime. And we cannot hide the last two things with the excuse of the former,” replied the vice president of the Senate. He added: “The robberies, aggressions, monuments and damaged private property, weapons and confiscated firecrackers cannot be reduced to ‘impulsive gestures’, as the prefect has said. Everything cannot be justified.” Centinaio also criticized the fans who the night before the game went to the hotel where the rival team with firecrackers and fireworks was concentrated to prevent players from resting.
