Napoli players information cards
Morgan de Sanctis – The Pirate Morgan is the number one of the neapolitan team and the Napoli last bastion of defense. His debut was in B series, in the youth of Pescara, the debut was forced from the accident of the two resident goalkeepers when he parried a penalty to Christian Vieri, at that time in the Venezia. From that moment he began a remarkable career and since several years he is in the Italian national team. Following the season 2010-2011, with the Napoli qualified in the Champions League, he recorded another guinness: he is the only player in Serie A always present in the field (he played 76 consecutive games as resident never beeing replaced. Married for 12 years to Giovanna, he has two daughters. He loves sweets, especially the pastiera.
Salvatore Aronica – Neapolitan fans call him simply, Totò, the Palermitan lock. He is an old school defender, he has a lot of determination and temperament. Married to Giovanna, and father of Giovanni and Greta. He preferred, more than going to Palermo, to remain in the shadow of Vesuvius where the coach, Mr. Mazzarri consider him as a very special part of the team.
Hugo Campagnaro – A big temperament defender, a monument for the Neapolitan’s defense as to been called “Maschio Angioino” (the biggest castle in the hart of Naples). Unbeatable opponent in the one against one. He is quickly become one of the Neapolitan favorite players. Married to Noelia since less than 10 years, she comes from Argentina too, the pair have two sons Sofia and Andres.
Paolo Cannavaro – Captain Cannavaro is a mixed blessing for the fans. Alternate high performance for other less convincing. His strength is the header. He is attached to the national team and the team of his city, on his shoulders rests the eternal comparison with his brother Fabio, former world champion. The Neapolitan captain is married since 2003 with the Neapolitan Cristina. The two are parents of three children: Manuel, Adrian and Sofia.
Federico Fernandez – “El Flaco”, the skinny: he arrived in the Napoli last season, he did not found a lot of places between the residents showing off only sporadic appearances in the Champions League. He is a central defender physically imposing and rugged, his strength is the header. He grew up in the Estudiantes’s youth where he sported before landing in the shadow of Vesuvius.
Gianluca Grava – He is the man symbol of the De Laurentiis’s Napoli. He has worn for the first time the national team in C series. Gravatar is a player by the great temperament and a sporty-agonistic ardor. His strength is the determination and the concentration that he has when he is asked to take the field. He often wore the armband of the neapolitan team.
Miguel Angel Britos – He is the next season’s promise. Just arrived in the Napoli, in fact, last summer, was injured in the friendly match against Barcelona. This stop has compromised the preparation and all the last season. Now the fans expect he shows his talents. Britos, Uruguayan nationality, as Cavani, is a physically strong left-footed defender, able at the game in advance and in the header. He combines a good tactical sense with a good technique that often allows him to restart the action of his team.
Alessandro Gamberini: he is one of the new Napoli’s purchases. Defender physically strong, brave and tactically proficient in the header. He has excellent qualities of marker. His natural role is that of a central defender, but he is sometimes been used as a fullback. He has grown in the youth of his hometown team, the Bologna, where he has made his debut in A series. Also playing in the National under 21. Since 2005 in the Fiorentina, where he alternates seasons frequently positive with others with a few appearances, partly because of injuries.
Juan Camilo Zuniga – He prefers to play on the right wing of the defense. Not infrequently, however, Mazzarri has also employed him on the left. He has excellent qualities as sprinter, he also holds a fair shot. Very good at jumping the direct opponent with feints and dribbling, he is also good in covering the defensive than offensive of their own team. Married to the lovely Maria Angelica, he is father since a year.
Christian Maggio – He is called suberbike. Player of extraordinary dynamism and physical resistance, he combines a lot of running with excellent play. He holds a good timing that often allows him doing goal. Valuable player that can play both defensive than offensive of the right wing. His talent has also been noted by the national coach, Prandelli, who has convened him as resident of the last European Championship. Christian Maggio, a native of Vicenza, is married to Valeria Mettifogo, who fell in love with him, when they were still kids, because he reminded her a Backstreet Boys’s singer.
Walter Gargano – He is a very strong athletically midfielder, capable of stealing balls in midfield, with the bad habit of losing too many. When he is calm and concentrated, he became very useful as playmaker, dictating playing time for his teammates. He is a player considered valuable to the whole team. The strong Uruguayan midfielder, all heart and lungs, is married to the sister of the teammate Hamsik, Micaela. The pair have two children.
Gokhan Inler – He is a central midfielder by massive technical and physical. He dictates the midfield’s action time, skillful in setting up the game of his team, also very effective in breaking the opponent’s action. He also has an excellent long range shot and a very good header. He has gained the Lion King’s nickname when during his presentation he introduced himself to the press and the fans wearing a mask of the famous Walt Disney character. He relaxes himself by boxing in Patrizio Oliva’s gym.
Andrea Dossena – Former Udinese and Liverpool now he is a great boost player, physically and technically strong, these are qualities that allowed him to play in the Italian national team and to be bought by Liverpool to play in the Champions League. He is a profitable player that can cover the entire left wing of the field with great results. He’s married to the beautiful Deborah, who, at his presentation, almost monopolized the attention of all the people in the room.
Blerim Dzemaili – Midfielder valid both in the containment than in the support. His distinctive feature is the ability to coordinate the two phases, regaining the ball and restarting the action promptly. With a good technical background, is particularly skilled in the throws, even when the action is spread in speed. Despite a season in Napoli, has already won the affection of the Neapolitan fans who expects from him more and more.
Valon Behrami – A player who is just landed at Naples, with Gamebrini, from Fiorentina. He combines good tactics with very good technical skills quality. May play different roles, both external and internal midfielder in a midfield to 3, can also be used in the back role, playing indifferently on both bands. A player still to be discovered.
Marek Hamsik – Central midfielder, ambidextrous, prefers to play inside midfield with primarily offensive tasks. He has considerable capabilities that lead him, in his year as a starter in A series to scoring 9 goals. Technical and elegant in his movements, he has been compared to Frank Lampard and Steven Gerrard. Good in widen the bands and in the entry in area to conclude, both with foot and head. Good feet, good vision of the game, is often used to beat on penalties. He is considered among the best midfielders in the world and his compatriot Pavel Nedved, has crowned him as his successor. He is married to Slovakian Martina Franova, handball player. The two athletes are the parents of Christian, born two years ago and the little Lucas born on 5 january 2012.
Edinson Cavani – A striker with good technique and proper nose for goal. He run very fast and durability. Uruguayan of Italian origins, since his paternal grandfather, who had worked in Sicily came from Maranello, he spent his childhood playing on the border with Argentina, until when at twelve years old, he moved to Montevideo, the Uruguayan capital. Thus he entered in the youth of the Danube, one of twelve football teams of the city. As a fervent Evangelical Pentecostal Christian faithful, on the of June 9 2007 he married Maria Soledad with whom he had a son, Bautista, who was born in Naples on 22 March 2011.
Edu Vargas – Purchased last December and arrived during the winter session of the market has found a little space in the first team in the course of last season. Vargas is a very fast second striker and physically compact. His main features are speed of execution, the unpredictability and a very good eye for goal.
Goran Pandev – The Neapolitan “pandemonium”, he is a very technical striker, he prefers to play as an outsider in the trident or as a second striker in a fit of torque. He has very good ballistic capabilities, the shot is one of his strengths. Pandev began his professional career early, in fact, when he was only 16 years old he was already resident in the home team, the Belasica. Inter took him to Italy in 2001, here he began to play in the youth. With the Inter he won everything, in the past league the arrived on loan to Napoli, in this season the Neapolitan will buy him definitively.
Lorenzo Insigne – Striker who can be throughout on the offensive front, can also be deployed in support of the strikers. Zdenek Zeman, his coach at Foggia and Pescara, used him often as a trident in his left hand exterior offensive. Agile and quick in the phrasing, has a dry and very quick dribbling, he also is capable to have a vision that makes him able both to finalize the action and to serve assist to his teammates. In this year he has replaced Lavezzi . Will he make us forget in the field and in the hearts of fans the Pocho? For fans he is already Lorenzo the Magnificent.
Walter Mazzarri – He is the Napoli coach, once a midfielder. He played in the Pescara, in the Cagliari, and in the Empoli. His career is most successful as coach. Begins as a technician second to Ulivieri first to Bologna and then in Napoli. He wrote a thesis for a permit to professional trainer 1st Category . In the 2003-04 championship he was hired by Livorno in Serie B, leading the team of his city to direct promotion to A series. The following year he went to Reggina that trained for three seasons before moving on for two years, at Sampdoria. On October 6, 2009, after the first 7 days of the championship, was hired as coach of Napoli replacing Roberto Donadoni. Since then he has continued his association with the Naples team that led up to the Champions League after 21 years of absence. On 20th May 2012 he won his first trophy as coach in the Coppa Italia final against Juventus (2 to 0): the Cup back to the Napoli after twenty five years.