VILLAS BOAS: SEE NAPLES AND DIE?

"See Naples and die." It was a phrase coined during the reign of the Bourbons of Naples. It means that before you die you must experience the beauty of Naples. But for Villas Boas,  Chelsea’s coach the saying about Naples could have a different meaning. In the sense that seeing Naples could be fatal for the Portuguese  Mourinho’s pupil. If Chelsea lose it seems in fact, that the Russian Blues’ owner Abramovich  probably will sack the Portuguese promising coach talent. JESUS stopped at Eboli, Villas Boas that reminds a little bit about the classic image of Christ with the same beard, could stop almost in the same area, at Naples. The city of Vesuvio can be paradise or hell, the beauty and the beast. It’s a city of many contrasts and many colors as a famous Italian song goes. It’s up to Villas Boas and his team to decide on which side to stay.  It’s said in Italy that when you are in Naples you have to cry two times: when you arrive and when you leave. Tears for happiness and tears for sadness . Villas Boas wants to be happy. But in Naples and against Mazzarri’s boys it wont’ be easy. The clash of tomorrow for the city of Naples represents more than a simple football match. It’s a chance of a social redemption. The pride of being  from Naples. Because to be from Naples is different than being Italian.

For people from Naples it means more. For people in the rest of Italy, particularly from the north it often means less. But this isn’t so important. The main thing is that this clash also represents  the possibility to show the world that Naples can be different. It’s not  only the city of "Gomorra" and garbage emergency. To testimony the importance of the match Napoli’s owner Aurelio De Laurentiis  in these days before the match has always remained  close to the azzurri football players. About the match Napoli’s’ president said. “I don’t think that tomorrow we can lose, I’m optimistic. Also because tomorrow we will be twelve players”. The  12^th player that De Laurentiis refers to are the supporters, the warmest supporters in Italy, that will make the San Paolo stadium glow.  50 000 supporters are expected to fill almost every corner of San Paolo stadium to recreate the same atmosphere as when Maradona played here. The new heroes are called “Pocho” Lavezzi, Marek  Hamsik and Edison Cavani, for which Naples  rejected a 18 million euro offer from Liverpool. Three champions able to decide every single match and also to determine the destiny of Villas Boas.  If tomorrow  at the end of the match Napoli’s supporters will give you goosebumps singing the Naples’ traditional song “O surdato Innamorato”- like they are used to doing after every success - it will mean that Villas Boas’ experience on the bench of Chelsea will be terminated. Dead after having seen Naples...