Beef! Marco Landucci and Luciano Spalletti (©Getty Images)
Beef! Marco Landucci and Luciano Spalletti (©Getty Images)

Italian rage: Juventus' assistant coach threatened to "eat Spalletti's heart"

Reading Time: 2min | Tue. 25.04.23. | 13:45

Marca Landucci didn't choose his words after losing to Napoli, but Luciano remained cool

Juventus' added-time loss to Napoli brought out the best and the worst in people. On the one hand, there were the jubilant Neapolitans who waited for their heroes all night to come back from their conquest of Turin so they could celebrate together. On the other side of the spectrum is pure rage and hatred - and Mr Marco Landucci, Juve's assistant coach.

Italian daily La Stampa revealed the match report from the Italian FA (FIGC) officials - and it's quite a read. Three pages longer than your average report, this one listed all the irregularities surrounding the big match. And according to the story, the public prosecutor's office in Turin will be kept busy in the coming weeks.

Landucci was so annoyed by officials' decisions on the night that he had to vent his rage somehow - and he did it after the game when Napoli coach Luciano Spalletti was just a metre away.

"You bald piece of sh*t, I'll eat your heart!"

Spalletti remained cool and went about his business, which made Landucci go nuts even more. Speaking after the noise of the game had gone quiet, Spalletti reflected on his career and his modest beginnings as he approached his first Scudetto.

"Do I think about the title? Yes, because, looking back, I've never travelled first class - I always hitchhiked. Winning the Scudetto repays you for the sacrifices you made: sometimes, they made fun of me because I wore football boots on the bench, but I remember the sacrifices I made when I couldn't afford them as a child. I took a slightly more difficult path than others who start from different levels."

COPPA ITALIA

Semi-final, second leg

Wednesday

22.00: (2.15) Inter (3.35) Juventus (3.45) /first leg: 1-1/

Thursday

22.00: (1.35) Fiorentina (4.90) Cremonese (9.50) /first leg: 2-0/

***odds are subject to change



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Marco LanducciLuciano SpallettiNapoliJuventusSerie A

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