De Laurentiis: “Now the Champions League if the referees and UEFA don’t stop us”

Napoli got the necessary point in the “Dacia Arena” (1-1 with Udinese) and mathematically won the title of Italian champion five games before this year’s Serie A final, with the team’s third Scudetto and the first after 33 years Anombria to let Aurelio De Laurentiis raise his bar.

“We’ve waited 33 years for this moment, when I took over Napoli I said that in the next 10 years I’ll take them back to the top and I’ve managed to do that before.

Now it’s a new era, we hope to keep winning the title for years to come, but now we also have an obligation to win the Champions League.

We’ll try if the referees don’t stop us like they did this year. I think we were stronger this year and we were eliminated because the referee was not up to date in both games against Milan.

But this is football, this is UEFA. We will continue to fight for the trophy in the years to come.”he emphasized in an interview with the American news agency “CBS”, with which the Italian film producer traveled back in time and remembered how he got from the USA to the Italian south.

“I was in Los Angeles to shoot a film with Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law and Angelina Jolie and I decided to vacation in Capri for 15 days.

I found out that Napoli was bankrupt and that there would be an auction, so I bid €37m just for the name.

When I asked where the players were they said “Mr. De Laurentiis there are no players” when I asked where the facilities were they said “Mr. De Laurentiis the facilities are gone” so I asked them what I paid 37 million euros for?

Just because of the name? Thank you… So I was shooting Hollywood movies in southern Italy, getting spat on my head in every little village.

But it was a great experience, better than any movie. If it’s the best €37 million I’ve spent? Yes”.