Spalletti Declares Break From Football

Napoli’s coach, Luciano Spalletti has announced his immediate leave from Napoli at the end of the Serie A season after leading the club to their first league title since Maradona’s era.

Spalletti said this at the Italian national team’s Coverciano training centre, where he also confirmed that he’d take time away from football and would not be immediately moving to coach another team.

His words: “I need to take some time to rest because I’m pretty tired.

“I don’t know if you can call it a year’s sabbatical but I won’t be working. I won’t be coaching Napoli or any other team.”

With this confirmation, it’s now evident that the 64-year-old Italian will bow out as Napoli coach on Sunday evening when the newly-crowned champions host relegated Sampdoria at the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona.

It was his first Italian league crown and first trophy of any sort in Italy since the Italian Cup won at Roma in 2008.