Monday, 29 August 2016

Arkadiusz Milik and Dries Mertens help Napoli fans forget their heartache

The Polish striker has big shoes to fill at Napoli after Gonzalo Higuaín’s painful departure, but he combined with Dries Mertens to put Milan to the sword and get their Serie A campaign up and running

Decibel Bellini would be the first to tell you that he has been lucky in love. Napoli’s exuberant stadium announcer is always sharing photos of partner Valentina, with whom he is expecting a second child, on his various social media feeds. Bellini’s syllable-by-syllable serenades to every Napoli goalscorer, meanwhile, have won him endless adoration from his club’s supporters.

Life was not always like this. As Bellini explained in a Facebook post this July, “when I was a little boy, I often fell in love with the most beautiful girls in school. I was chubby and not too good looking, and in the end, despite all my love letters, offers to carry their rucksacks and everything else, I could not grab their attention.”

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