After the victory against Empoli on the 24th day of the championship, and thanks to the defeat suffered by Inter in Bologna, Napoli has further increased their advantage as first in the standings. The team is now 18 points ahead of the chasers. There are still 14 days left at the end of the championship, but Luciano Spalletti is approaching the championship week after week. It's been 33 years since Napoli won their last championship. It was 1990, the year of the World Cup in Italy, and there was still Diego Armando Maradona. There are two great protagonists of this exploit: the first is the Nigerian striker Victor Osimhen, who has scored 19 goals in 24 days and, thanks to the goal scored on Saturday at Empoli, has come to score in eight consecutive appearances, ranking as the second youngest player to have succeeded in this feat in the history of Serie A, scoring 11 goals since after the stop for the World Cup; there is also the Georgian outsider Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, who deserves the credit of many decisive passes for the goals scored by Osimhen. He is the revelation of this championship, with a total of 9 decisive assists, more than any other player in the league. However, the real protagonist is the Tuscan coach Luciano Spalletti, who is 63 years old and has been training since 1994. In his career he finished four times second (again with Roma) and third last year in the first season with Napoli. He won two championships in Russia with Zenit St. Petersburg. His last win in Italian soccer was the 2008 Italian Cup with Roma.
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