To tell you the truth, I don’t know. We will find out. But we know it’s difficult, we know it’s a great team. For sure, at home they play incredible football. We go there with confidence, and we will see. You just have to enjoy it. I’d prefer that it were with some tifosi, with some supporters, but hey, I’m already happy that football continues and we can play the games. That’s the most important thing.
It’s always special to play [against] these big teams. People think that we’re used to doing this, we’re used to the pressure and to the power of the games. Playing these games is something special. When you score and you equal the all-time scorer at Napoli, it’s something special, for sure. But when you’re in the game, you want to win, and you’re not thinking about yourself, you’re thinking about the team. Unfortunately, I got injured, because I think [Sergio] Busquets fouled me, and I had to be substituted. I was so disappointed to go out of the game. It was 1-0, and I wanted to stay on the pitch because I was feeling that we could do something special. OK, we finished 1-1, but I still feel that we can do something special.
Yes, definitely. It was a big step to come here – a big club playing Champions League. For me it was very important and you never know how it’s going to be. Luckily for me it turned out really great. I tell young players now that, when you change clubs, you have to feel [at] home, you have to adapt, you have to learn the language, you have to look at how they live. That's something I did and I think that they appreciate it. That makes it so much easier. I tried to see the city, the club, learn everything about them, and that was my strength.
Yes! It's not easy to be on a diet when you play for Napoli – the food is really good. You just try to enjoy life, but football is the first thing that you have to do.
The fans are crazy. The people breathe football. It’s not only from young people to 40-year-olds, it’s also the grandmothers, the young children – it’s crazy! I think Italy is leading about football, breathing football… Waking up and taking the coffee in the morning and talking only about football. And I think this is something special about Italy.
The club is historic. Having Maradona here, he's still the story, and I think that until we win the Scudetto, he's going to stay the story. Let's hope one day there will be another story, but it’s a nice club. In Italy, they are crazy about football but the south is something special.
I always played on the left side but I was always going inside and trying to shoot from outside the penalty area. And then with some injuries, they were looking for a striker and he just put me there and said: “I'm sure you're going to do it well.” In the first season with Sarri, I only played six games as a starter, so I was always mad that he was looking at me like: "You're really good at starting on the bench, coming on and you change the game." I was like: "Come on man. I come in, I score. The next game I want to play." He said: "But you are so important, don't worry, you'll have your chances." And then one day, he put me as a striker and it changed my life.
I never looked at myself as a goalscorer, I was making assists more. The time that I was playing with Hamšik, I was still providing a lot of assists and he was scoring, so I was not looking at it like: “I’m going to break this record.” I wasn't thinking about it, but then it was getting closer and you start to be like: “OK, I’m getting closer to Maradona. I’m getting closer to Hamšik.” And then when it comes, it's incredible, because I was never signing here to be the all-time top scorer of this club. Achieving this is something special. Beating Maradona, because of his story, and then beating Hamšik, who was [here for] 11 or 12 years, is special for me, for sure. When I got the record, they sent me messages, and it was special.
We played great games in the Champions League, so that, for sure, is also thanks to Ancelotti. Now we’re with a new coach – I love it when you say 'Mr. Gattuso' –and he's doing really well. He's a really good coach. He's the perfect coach, at this moment, for Napoli, because he’s also giving a lot of opportunities to the young guys, and he could be a really good coach for the future.
He won a lot of trophies as a player and he knows what it means to win, and that was something that the team was missing. You felt it already with Ancelotti, because he was a coach who won a lot, and he was willing to put that in the minds of the players and to change that mentality. And when Gattuso came in, who's very hungry as a coach, who’s very willing to win everything and is doing everything to achieve his goal, that's very important.
To tell you the truth, I don’t know. We will find out. But we know it’s difficult, we know it’s a great team. For sure, at home they play incredible football. We go there with confidence, and we will see. You just have to enjoy it. I’d prefer that it were with some tifosi, with some supporters, but hey, I’m already happy that football continues and we can play the games. That’s the most important thing.
It’s always special to play [against] these big teams. People think that we’re used to doing this, we’re used to the pressure and to the power of the games. Playing these games is something special. When you score and you equal the all-time scorer at Napoli, it’s something special, for sure. But when you’re in the game, you want to win, and you’re not thinking about yourself, you’re thinking about the team. Unfortunately, I got injured, because I think [Sergio] Busquets fouled me, and I had to be substituted. I was so disappointed to go out of the game. It was 1-0, and I wanted to stay on the pitch because I was feeling that we could do something special. OK, we finished 1-1, but I still feel that we can do something special.
Yes, definitely. It was a big step to come here – a big club playing Champions League. For me it was very important and you never know how it’s going to be. Luckily for me it turned out really great. I tell young players now that, when you change clubs, you have to feel [at] home, you have to adapt, you have to learn the language, you have to look at how they live. That's something I did and I think that they appreciate it. That makes it so much easier. I tried to see the city, the club, learn everything about them, and that was my strength.
Yes! It's not easy to be on a diet when you play for Napoli – the food is really good. You just try to enjoy life, but football is the first thing that you have to do.
The fans are crazy. The people breathe football. It’s not only from young people to 40-year-olds, it’s also the grandmothers, the young children – it’s crazy! I think Italy is leading about football, breathing football… Waking up and taking the coffee in the morning and talking only about football. And I think this is something special about Italy.
The club is historic. Having Maradona here, he's still the story, and I think that until we win the Scudetto, he's going to stay the story. Let's hope one day there will be another story, but it’s a nice club. In Italy, they are crazy about football but the south is something special.
I always played on the left side but I was always going inside and trying to shoot from outside the penalty area. And then with some injuries, they were looking for a striker and he just put me there and said: “I'm sure you're going to do it well.” In the first season with Sarri, I only played six games as a starter, so I was always mad that he was looking at me like: "You're really good at starting on the bench, coming on and you change the game." I was like: "Come on man. I come in, I score. The next game I want to play." He said: "But you are so important, don't worry, you'll have your chances." And then one day, he put me as a striker and it changed my life.
I never looked at myself as a goalscorer, I was making assists more. The time that I was playing with Hamšik, I was still providing a lot of assists and he was scoring, so I was not looking at it like: “I’m going to break this record.” I wasn't thinking about it, but then it was getting closer and you start to be like: “OK, I’m getting closer to Maradona. I’m getting closer to Hamšik.” And then when it comes, it's incredible, because I was never signing here to be the all-time top scorer of this club. Achieving this is something special. Beating Maradona, because of his story, and then beating Hamšik, who was [here for] 11 or 12 years, is special for me, for sure. When I got the record, they sent me messages, and it was special.
We played great games in the Champions League, so that, for sure, is also thanks to Ancelotti. Now we’re with a new coach – I love it when you say 'Mr. Gattuso' –and he's doing really well. He's a really good coach. He's the perfect coach, at this moment, for Napoli, because he’s also giving a lot of opportunities to the young guys, and he could be a really good coach for the future.
He won a lot of trophies as a player and he knows what it means to win, and that was something that the team was missing. You felt it already with Ancelotti, because he was a coach who won a lot, and he was willing to put that in the minds of the players and to change that mentality. And when Gattuso came in, who's very hungry as a coach, who’s very willing to win everything and is doing everything to achieve his goal, that's very important.
To tell you the truth, I don’t know. We will find out. But we know it’s difficult, we know it’s a great team. For sure, at home they play incredible football. We go there with confidence, and we will see. You just have to enjoy it. I’d prefer that it were with some tifosi, with some supporters, but hey, I’m already happy that football continues and we can play the games. That’s the most important thing.
It’s always special to play [against] these big teams. People think that we’re used to doing this, we’re used to the pressure and to the power of the games. Playing these games is something special. When you score and you equal the all-time scorer at Napoli, it’s something special, for sure. But when you’re in the game, you want to win, and you’re not thinking about yourself, you’re thinking about the team. Unfortunately, I got injured, because I think [Sergio] Busquets fouled me, and I had to be substituted. I was so disappointed to go out of the game. It was 1-0, and I wanted to stay on the pitch because I was feeling that we could do something special. OK, we finished 1-1, but I still feel that we can do something special.
Yes, definitely. It was a big step to come here – a big club playing Champions League. For me it was very important and you never know how it’s going to be. Luckily for me it turned out really great. I tell young players now that, when you change clubs, you have to feel [at] home, you have to adapt, you have to learn the language, you have to look at how they live. That's something I did and I think that they appreciate it. That makes it so much easier. I tried to see the city, the club, learn everything about them, and that was my strength.
Yes! It's not easy to be on a diet when you play for Napoli – the food is really good. You just try to enjoy life, but football is the first thing that you have to do.
The fans are crazy. The people breathe football. It’s not only from young people to 40-year-olds, it’s also the grandmothers, the young children – it’s crazy! I think Italy is leading about football, breathing football… Waking up and taking the coffee in the morning and talking only about football. And I think this is something special about Italy.
The club is historic. Having Maradona here, he's still the story, and I think that until we win the Scudetto, he's going to stay the story. Let's hope one day there will be another story, but it’s a nice club. In Italy, they are crazy about football but the south is something special.
I always played on the left side but I was always going inside and trying to shoot from outside the penalty area. And then with some injuries, they were looking for a striker and he just put me there and said: “I'm sure you're going to do it well.” In the first season with Sarri, I only played six games as a starter, so I was always mad that he was looking at me like: "You're really good at starting on the bench, coming on and you change the game." I was like: "Come on man. I come in, I score. The next game I want to play." He said: "But you are so important, don't worry, you'll have your chances." And then one day, he put me as a striker and it changed my life.
I never looked at myself as a goalscorer, I was making assists more. The time that I was playing with Hamšik, I was still providing a lot of assists and he was scoring, so I was not looking at it like: “I’m going to break this record.” I wasn't thinking about it, but then it was getting closer and you start to be like: “OK, I’m getting closer to Maradona. I’m getting closer to Hamšik.” And then when it comes, it's incredible, because I was never signing here to be the all-time top scorer of this club. Achieving this is something special. Beating Maradona, because of his story, and then beating Hamšik, who was [here for] 11 or 12 years, is special for me, for sure. When I got the record, they sent me messages, and it was special.
We played great games in the Champions League, so that, for sure, is also thanks to Ancelotti. Now we’re with a new coach – I love it when you say 'Mr. Gattuso' –and he's doing really well. He's a really good coach. He's the perfect coach, at this moment, for Napoli, because he’s also giving a lot of opportunities to the young guys, and he could be a really good coach for the future.
He won a lot of trophies as a player and he knows what it means to win, and that was something that the team was missing. You felt it already with Ancelotti, because he was a coach who won a lot, and he was willing to put that in the minds of the players and to change that mentality. And when Gattuso came in, who's very hungry as a coach, who’s very willing to win everything and is doing everything to achieve his goal, that's very important.
To tell you the truth, I don’t know. We will find out. But we know it’s difficult, we know it’s a great team. For sure, at home they play incredible football. We go there with confidence, and we will see. You just have to enjoy it. I’d prefer that it were with some tifosi, with some supporters, but hey, I’m already happy that football continues and we can play the games. That’s the most important thing.
It’s always special to play [against] these big teams. People think that we’re used to doing this, we’re used to the pressure and to the power of the games. Playing these games is something special. When you score and you equal the all-time scorer at Napoli, it’s something special, for sure. But when you’re in the game, you want to win, and you’re not thinking about yourself, you’re thinking about the team. Unfortunately, I got injured, because I think [Sergio] Busquets fouled me, and I had to be substituted. I was so disappointed to go out of the game. It was 1-0, and I wanted to stay on the pitch because I was feeling that we could do something special. OK, we finished 1-1, but I still feel that we can do something special.
Yes, definitely. It was a big step to come here – a big club playing Champions League. For me it was very important and you never know how it’s going to be. Luckily for me it turned out really great. I tell young players now that, when you change clubs, you have to feel [at] home, you have to adapt, you have to learn the language, you have to look at how they live. That's something I did and I think that they appreciate it. That makes it so much easier. I tried to see the city, the club, learn everything about them, and that was my strength.
Yes! It's not easy to be on a diet when you play for Napoli – the food is really good. You just try to enjoy life, but football is the first thing that you have to do.
The fans are crazy. The people breathe football. It’s not only from young people to 40-year-olds, it’s also the grandmothers, the young children – it’s crazy! I think Italy is leading about football, breathing football… Waking up and taking the coffee in the morning and talking only about football. And I think this is something special about Italy.
The club is historic. Having Maradona here, he's still the story, and I think that until we win the Scudetto, he's going to stay the story. Let's hope one day there will be another story, but it’s a nice club. In Italy, they are crazy about football but the south is something special.
I always played on the left side but I was always going inside and trying to shoot from outside the penalty area. And then with some injuries, they were looking for a striker and he just put me there and said: “I'm sure you're going to do it well.” In the first season with Sarri, I only played six games as a starter, so I was always mad that he was looking at me like: "You're really good at starting on the bench, coming on and you change the game." I was like: "Come on man. I come in, I score. The next game I want to play." He said: "But you are so important, don't worry, you'll have your chances." And then one day, he put me as a striker and it changed my life.
I never looked at myself as a goalscorer, I was making assists more. The time that I was playing with Hamšik, I was still providing a lot of assists and he was scoring, so I was not looking at it like: “I’m going to break this record.” I wasn't thinking about it, but then it was getting closer and you start to be like: “OK, I’m getting closer to Maradona. I’m getting closer to Hamšik.” And then when it comes, it's incredible, because I was never signing here to be the all-time top scorer of this club. Achieving this is something special. Beating Maradona, because of his story, and then beating Hamšik, who was [here for] 11 or 12 years, is special for me, for sure. When I got the record, they sent me messages, and it was special.
We played great games in the Champions League, so that, for sure, is also thanks to Ancelotti. Now we’re with a new coach – I love it when you say 'Mr. Gattuso' –and he's doing really well. He's a really good coach. He's the perfect coach, at this moment, for Napoli, because he’s also giving a lot of opportunities to the young guys, and he could be a really good coach for the future.
He won a lot of trophies as a player and he knows what it means to win, and that was something that the team was missing. You felt it already with Ancelotti, because he was a coach who won a lot, and he was willing to put that in the minds of the players and to change that mentality. And when Gattuso came in, who's very hungry as a coach, who’s very willing to win everything and is doing everything to achieve his goal, that's very important.
To tell you the truth, I don’t know. We will find out. But we know it’s difficult, we know it’s a great team. For sure, at home they play incredible football. We go there with confidence, and we will see. You just have to enjoy it. I’d prefer that it were with some tifosi, with some supporters, but hey, I’m already happy that football continues and we can play the games. That’s the most important thing.
It’s always special to play [against] these big teams. People think that we’re used to doing this, we’re used to the pressure and to the power of the games. Playing these games is something special. When you score and you equal the all-time scorer at Napoli, it’s something special, for sure. But when you’re in the game, you want to win, and you’re not thinking about yourself, you’re thinking about the team. Unfortunately, I got injured, because I think [Sergio] Busquets fouled me, and I had to be substituted. I was so disappointed to go out of the game. It was 1-0, and I wanted to stay on the pitch because I was feeling that we could do something special. OK, we finished 1-1, but I still feel that we can do something special.
Yes, definitely. It was a big step to come here – a big club playing Champions League. For me it was very important and you never know how it’s going to be. Luckily for me it turned out really great. I tell young players now that, when you change clubs, you have to feel [at] home, you have to adapt, you have to learn the language, you have to look at how they live. That's something I did and I think that they appreciate it. That makes it so much easier. I tried to see the city, the club, learn everything about them, and that was my strength.
Yes! It's not easy to be on a diet when you play for Napoli – the food is really good. You just try to enjoy life, but football is the first thing that you have to do.
The fans are crazy. The people breathe football. It’s not only from young people to 40-year-olds, it’s also the grandmothers, the young children – it’s crazy! I think Italy is leading about football, breathing football… Waking up and taking the coffee in the morning and talking only about football. And I think this is something special about Italy.
The club is historic. Having Maradona here, he's still the story, and I think that until we win the Scudetto, he's going to stay the story. Let's hope one day there will be another story, but it’s a nice club. In Italy, they are crazy about football but the south is something special.
I always played on the left side but I was always going inside and trying to shoot from outside the penalty area. And then with some injuries, they were looking for a striker and he just put me there and said: “I'm sure you're going to do it well.” In the first season with Sarri, I only played six games as a starter, so I was always mad that he was looking at me like: "You're really good at starting on the bench, coming on and you change the game." I was like: "Come on man. I come in, I score. The next game I want to play." He said: "But you are so important, don't worry, you'll have your chances." And then one day, he put me as a striker and it changed my life.
I never looked at myself as a goalscorer, I was making assists more. The time that I was playing with Hamšik, I was still providing a lot of assists and he was scoring, so I was not looking at it like: “I’m going to break this record.” I wasn't thinking about it, but then it was getting closer and you start to be like: “OK, I’m getting closer to Maradona. I’m getting closer to Hamšik.” And then when it comes, it's incredible, because I was never signing here to be the all-time top scorer of this club. Achieving this is something special. Beating Maradona, because of his story, and then beating Hamšik, who was [here for] 11 or 12 years, is special for me, for sure. When I got the record, they sent me messages, and it was special.
We played great games in the Champions League, so that, for sure, is also thanks to Ancelotti. Now we’re with a new coach – I love it when you say 'Mr. Gattuso' –and he's doing really well. He's a really good coach. He's the perfect coach, at this moment, for Napoli, because he’s also giving a lot of opportunities to the young guys, and he could be a really good coach for the future.
He won a lot of trophies as a player and he knows what it means to win, and that was something that the team was missing. You felt it already with Ancelotti, because he was a coach who won a lot, and he was willing to put that in the minds of the players and to change that mentality. And when Gattuso came in, who's very hungry as a coach, who’s very willing to win everything and is doing everything to achieve his goal, that's very important.
To tell you the truth, I don’t know. We will find out. But we know it’s difficult, we know it’s a great team. For sure, at home they play incredible football. We go there with confidence, and we will see. You just have to enjoy it. I’d prefer that it were with some tifosi, with some supporters, but hey, I’m already happy that football continues and we can play the games. That’s the most important thing.
It’s always special to play [against] these big teams. People think that we’re used to doing this, we’re used to the pressure and to the power of the games. Playing these games is something special. When you score and you equal the all-time scorer at Napoli, it’s something special, for sure. But when you’re in the game, you want to win, and you’re not thinking about yourself, you’re thinking about the team. Unfortunately, I got injured, because I think [Sergio] Busquets fouled me, and I had to be substituted. I was so disappointed to go out of the game. It was 1-0, and I wanted to stay on the pitch because I was feeling that we could do something special. OK, we finished 1-1, but I still feel that we can do something special.
Yes, definitely. It was a big step to come here – a big club playing Champions League. For me it was very important and you never know how it’s going to be. Luckily for me it turned out really great. I tell young players now that, when you change clubs, you have to feel [at] home, you have to adapt, you have to learn the language, you have to look at how they live. That's something I did and I think that they appreciate it. That makes it so much easier. I tried to see the city, the club, learn everything about them, and that was my strength.
Yes! It's not easy to be on a diet when you play for Napoli – the food is really good. You just try to enjoy life, but football is the first thing that you have to do.
The fans are crazy. The people breathe football. It’s not only from young people to 40-year-olds, it’s also the grandmothers, the young children – it’s crazy! I think Italy is leading about football, breathing football… Waking up and taking the coffee in the morning and talking only about football. And I think this is something special about Italy.
The club is historic. Having Maradona here, he's still the story, and I think that until we win the Scudetto, he's going to stay the story. Let's hope one day there will be another story, but it’s a nice club. In Italy, they are crazy about football but the south is something special.
I always played on the left side but I was always going inside and trying to shoot from outside the penalty area. And then with some injuries, they were looking for a striker and he just put me there and said: “I'm sure you're going to do it well.” In the first season with Sarri, I only played six games as a starter, so I was always mad that he was looking at me like: "You're really good at starting on the bench, coming on and you change the game." I was like: "Come on man. I come in, I score. The next game I want to play." He said: "But you are so important, don't worry, you'll have your chances." And then one day, he put me as a striker and it changed my life.
I never looked at myself as a goalscorer, I was making assists more. The time that I was playing with Hamšik, I was still providing a lot of assists and he was scoring, so I was not looking at it like: “I’m going to break this record.” I wasn't thinking about it, but then it was getting closer and you start to be like: “OK, I’m getting closer to Maradona. I’m getting closer to Hamšik.” And then when it comes, it's incredible, because I was never signing here to be the all-time top scorer of this club. Achieving this is something special. Beating Maradona, because of his story, and then beating Hamšik, who was [here for] 11 or 12 years, is special for me, for sure. When I got the record, they sent me messages, and it was special.
We played great games in the Champions League, so that, for sure, is also thanks to Ancelotti. Now we’re with a new coach – I love it when you say 'Mr. Gattuso' –and he's doing really well. He's a really good coach. He's the perfect coach, at this moment, for Napoli, because he’s also giving a lot of opportunities to the young guys, and he could be a really good coach for the future.
He won a lot of trophies as a player and he knows what it means to win, and that was something that the team was missing. You felt it already with Ancelotti, because he was a coach who won a lot, and he was willing to put that in the minds of the players and to change that mentality. And when Gattuso came in, who's very hungry as a coach, who’s very willing to win everything and is doing everything to achieve his goal, that's very important.
