Signature move: The curve shot of Lorenzo Insigne

"Odio e amo: / fusse che chiedi/ come faccio? / nunn 'o saccio / ma lo faccio / e mme sent' nu straccio!"
This is the translation that Stefano Benni makes in Neapolitan of the famous incipit catulliano Odi et amo.

Yes, because the relationship between the Napoli's supporters and the distinctive trait of his most talented and representative player, as well as Neapolitan among the Neapolitans, Lorenzo Insigne is just love and hate. Every Neapolitan supporter worthy of the name when he sees Lorenzo receive the ball on the left three / quarters he already knows, and to tell the truth also the opponents know that if there is space Insigne will make a pretense to go left, he will move the ball on the right and try the curve shot.

Clearly when the ending is what you see above the Napoli supporters, so including me, rejoices with joy, eyes widening because the play is extraordinarily beautiful and in its infinite beauty silences you making you able only to scream. Obviously there is the reverse side of the coin, the dark part of the moon and that is when that ball does not bag at the intersection of the poles but ends its seemingly infamous parable, very far from the goal posts of the opponent. Unfortunately, being an extremely difficult game, the latter is definitely more frequent than the first but in Naples we are lucky, Lorenzo is one of the European players with the highest conversion rate of this type of conclusions.

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Difficulty coefficient: 9/10

The ability that Lorenzo Insigne possesses is the classic of the great players, everyone knows that he will pretend to get back on the right side but everyone falls for it, they can not do anything, the more they know that he will make that move the more his opponents fall into the trap Frattamaggiore's scugnizzo. It is a game that many players try but very few can make their own, to make it become a trademark. Lorenzo has succeeded more than all the others in Serie A and in Europe. A seemingly simple movement that requires a basic technique of the highest level that luckily for us Neapolitan fans, Lorenzo possesses in large quantities. 

Beauty: 10/10

The deeds of knights and heroes remain for eternity. Beauty will save the world and tell Prince Myškin, Dostoevsky in The Idiot, and if there is anything more beautiful in the game of football, tell me why I want to see it. That marvelous parable is torment and ecstasy, and expectation that precedes the most profound and strong pleasure. It does not satisfy the sight, it satisfies the intellect.

What does it remember?

Immediate association. The beauty of nature in its most vivid colors builds a perfect and wonderful parable, just like the one that draws Lorenzo.

Soundtrack: Yes I Know My Way - Pino Daniele

I borrow part of the text of this song by Pino contained in Vai mo ', album of 1981 to explain the reason for my juxtaposition:

"Siente fa' accussì nun dà retta a nisciuno
fatte 'e fatte tuoie
ma si haje suffrì' caccia 'a currea
siente fa' accussì
miette 'e creature 'o sole
pecchè hanna sapè' addò fà friddo
e addò fà cchiù calore"

Emulation chances: 7/10

As I have already explained, many players have tried and continuously try the shot but only very few know how to touch the ball in such a way as to create poetic rainbows that awaken the spirits often hardened by the fans. Clearly far from me to say that Lorenzo Insigne was the first and greatest interpreter of this sweet and delicate technical gesture, and indeed a necessary and necessary quotation must be made. Alessandro Del Piero, one of the greatest players in the history of Italian football, has honored this action as perhaps no one before him.