Aurelio De Laurentiis

In the top two of Serie A, a small tubby Argentine, a tall South American target man, packed out crowds at the San Paolo. No this isn’t a flashback to the late 80’s, it is 2011 and the new face of Napoli. Join guest writer Paolo Mancini as the Napoli_Blogger preaches from the pulpit on a Neopolitan resurrection. Much time has passed and plenty of water (players,owners and money for that matter) have flowed under the bridge since Napoli were involved in a Serie A title race. The last two...Read Full Story

Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis was furious over the fixture list for the upcoming Serie A season, De Laurentiis stormed away from a televised ceremony announcing the schedule. Before the start of the ceremony featuring leading officials from each club seated in a semi-circle with two presenters in the middle, De Laurentiis said that the teams involved in European competition should be rewarded with a gentle opening. Instead, the computer threw up a home match against champions AC...Read Full Story

'Lionel Messi is a cretin', 'English women don't wash', 'I will chop  Mazzoni's balls off': the top 10 rants of Napoli president Aurelio de  Laurentiis.Read Full Story

Despite being put to the sword by title-chasing Juventus this weekend, Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis believes his side can still make it into third place in Serie A and make the UEFA Champions League.FIFARead Full Story

Despite being put to the sword by title-chasing Juventus this weekend, Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis believes his side can still make it into third place in Serie A and make the UEFA Champions League.FIFARead Full Story

president Aurelio de Laurentiis insists there’s no chance of the squad being broken up at the end of the season. De Laurentiis is determined to keep his high flying team together.read moreRead Full Story

coach Walter Mazzarri insists he has a good relationship with president Aurelio de Laurentiis. Mazzarri says he gets along with De Laurentiis – and the media.read moreRead Full Story

Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis is continuing his push for a European Super League. De Laurentiis believes the current European format does not work. He said, “I have said this for some time: we need to create a league in which there are six or seven Italian teams, six or seven German teams and so on participating. Then, since I’m a fundamentalist, say that you take the top teams from the five major footballing countries. “I understand that anyone who seeks to be elected has a more...Read Full Story

president Aurelio de Laurentiis insists they won’t make a hostile bid for star Stevan Jovetic.read moreRead Full Story

Napoli president Aurelio de Laurentiis says he won’t resign. De Laurentiis stormed out of the ceremony drawing up the Serie A 2011-12 calendar, swearing at other club representatives and declaring he was “ashamed to be Italian.” He then hitched a lift from a passing lad on a scooter to get away from journalists. “I just wanted to look after the interests of teams competing in Europe and therefore Italian football in general,” the movie mogul insisted. “How can you say meeting one big club...Read Full Story