Beppe Incocciati, 40 years ago the debut then Napoli and the friendship with Diego
October 11, 1981 Giuseppe Incocciati, for all Beppe, made his debut in Serie A with the shirt of Milan in the year of the historic relegation of the Rossoneri to B series. He just eighteen, a striker at his first experience in the top flight, that year he conquered the league with his teammates Mitropa Cup, but at the end of the year he had to deal with a painful and disputed relegation. That young boy he could not imagine how his career would evolve and that, shortly thereafter, he would become a great friend of Maradona, which he often decided to bring in his Fiuggi.
As he remembers on Twitter, they have passed 40 years since the debut in Serie A against that Bologna which became his home from ’91 to ’93 and where he scored 17 goals. Beppe, however, before establishing himself among the greats of Italian football is started from the givetta. After 13 appearances in the debut season, in Serie B, he became a starter giving his contribution to the sound of goals to get the Rossoneri back to Serie A. Then a few troubled seasons with few appearances and the beginning of his wanderings before arriving in 1990 at Napoli, who had just become champion of Italy.
There the great friendship with the Pibe de Oro, Diego Armando Maradona, and a new trophy posted on the showcase: the Italian Super Cup. But also the biggest disappointment of his career. Even after many years, in fact, the memory of that still burns in him Champions League final nuanced against Spartak Moscow.
Just a few days ago, in fact, on the eve of Naples-Spartak, Moscow had declared: «My stake in Spartak-Naples? It could have changed my and Napoli’s history. Let us be satisfied with what earthly life makes available to us. It was a double confrontation with Spartak Moscow mined by a adverse fate, poles and crosspieces. It was a crazy confrontation, my stake was a precise message that it had to go like this. Maradona was the main actor in some events, but it was not his fault that we went out. That Napoli could have reached the Champions League final, a huge regret. In the first leg, Diego played an extraordinary match. He too took a stake. We paid for an important aspect: the conditional factor. In Moscow there were I don’t know how many degrees below zero. We struggled to keep the muscle standards ».
Football has always remained in his life and, now, 40 years after his debut, he continues his career in the world of football training in his beloved Fiuggi, Atletico Terme in Serie D. Because despite the years passing, the passion for football it certainly hasn’t vanished.