NAPOLI - When Liverpool had not yet returned to being a legend, when Naples had not arrived - by authoritativeness and international breadth - where then it would have landed becoming Naples: when football, a match, is enclosed in a photograph, not even then so yellowed, because after all the time flew away but he let Rafa Benitez descend on Anfield, this eve, with his dazzling legacy. It's an hour and a half and inside there is a futuristic vision: it belongs to Liverpool and also to Naples and, in a way, is Benitez's daughter, among memorable plots that roll in this ball "sin prisa, sin pausa".

Liverpool and Naples: there are eight years of life in Rafa Benitez.

"I am proud of what I was able to win with these two clubs. They are different stories but similar in some ways: Liverpool had a bright past, had won the Uefa Cup a few years before my arrival, but wanted the Champions that had been missing for twenty years. Napoli was back from the rebirth, I inherited the excellent job done by Mazzarri but we had to take another step and we succeeded ».

Benitez and Ancelotti.

"Great esteem, on my part towards him and from Carlo with me. There is no way to talk for a long time, but every time we meet at the technical meetings we both feel the admiration we have for each other. "

Naples is a process of internationalization successfully launched: an Italian Cup and a Super Cup in Doha.

"Juve is very strong but it was already at the time. When I met De Laurentiis in London, Chiavelli and Bigon, I discovered that there was a desire to grow. A two-year project was born, which had gratifying results. A groove has been traced which, it seems to me, has been followed and indeed still resists with the Ghoulam, the Koulibaly, the Mertens, the Albiol, the Callejon: the backbone of that shopping campaign that served to give a wider breadth. to a team that also changed the method of play ».

A man playing for a team ...

"I could say many, both from Liverpool and Naples: on the one hand Mané, Firmino, Sturridge; on the other: Callejon, Mertens, Albiol, Koulibaly. But she asks me one on each side and then I choose: Salah and Insigne. "