The chorus of Bari fans who protest against De Laurentiis and sing "this is not Naples" was not liked in Naples. Here is what Paolo Esposito writes in this regard: “But what did the people of Bari want to say to Luigi and Aurelio De Laurentiis? That is, Bari is not Naples? And of course it was. Naples is a large metropolis of over one million inhabitants, one of the most beautiful and well-known cities in the world. His team, Napoli, is the only city in the South, together with Cagliari, to have won. 3 Scudetti, 1 UEFA Cup, among the most important at international level, 2 Super Cups, 6 Italian Cups etc.” It's hard right away, Esposito.
Then he adds: “The other football clubs in the South have never won anything! They only did extras! Including Bari, which was and is in Serie B, its natural habitat, but also many years in Serie C and a few in Serie A and which has never won a damn. Not to mention Bari, a city of just over 300 thousand inhabitants, which is certainly not as well known throughout the world as Naples, which has another type of history, much more important and which has always been a European capital! Let the people of Bari not forget that the De Laurentiis family took them from a humiliating failure, disappeared from football and brought them into professional football, until they almost reached Serie A, a few months ago, losing at the last second of the last match, precisely against Cagliari and then, they should keep quiet and not bring Naples into play, a city with which they have nothing to do and which has not played. Under every aspect.
