Ivano Trotta, the former Juve who helped Napoli to return to Serie A
Trotta wins a Scudetto with Lippi’s Juve and debuts in the Champions League: discarded by the bianconeri, in Naples he reveals himself as precious in the jump from C to A.
A life in the province with Juve And Naples to enhance your career. Ivano Trottaex right hairpin, he put his heart into it and – even if in a different way – in black and white and blue he experienced many emotions.
Trotta grows up in Madama’s nursery and is launched by Marcello Lippi, graduating as champion of Italy at a very young age: he runs 1996/97, he is not even 20 years old and he experiences the joy of his debut in Serie A (on the last day, 20 minutes against Lazio) first and then in the Champions League (5 ‘in Juve-Fenerbahce of the group stage) under the orders of the viareggino coach.
“It was amazing – admits Trotta in an interview granted in June to ‘MondoNapoli’ – When I was only 19, I had the opportunity to share the locker room with such important players, to which I would add Deschamps, Peruzzi, Di Livio, Vieri, Lippi on the bench. I had an important year in which I also made my debut in the Italian Cup at San Siro against Inter. It was a beautiful year, an incredible experience in a reality that made me grow quickly after three years in the youth sector “.
Trotta, albeit Primavera and supporting actor, in those months saw the Piedmontese team also raise a European Super Cup and an Intercontinental Cup, as well as fade the possibility of winning the Champions League in the final lost to Borussia Dortmund. The feeling with the Juventus world seems not to be lacking, until he begins a waltz of loans that sees him first move to Fiorenzuola (where he plays with Luca Toni) and then to Carrarese (here the first goal among the professionals, from midfield!) And to Viterbese .
With the subsequent arrival at Padua, between the former winger and Juve – as told by Trotta himself at ‘CalcioNapoli24’ in 2018 – the idyll breaks.
“I was still their property but the company, specifically Moggi, who was my agent, and my father, who was the director, decided that I had to stay another year at Viterbese. There was a disagreement between me and Moggi and I went to Padua. Then Juventus decided to release me“.
“They thought it appropriate that I stay another year on loan in Viterbo, but I thought I could do another category instead of Serie C. We didn’t find an agreement but I was under contract with Juve, so I decided to go to Padua” .
Between Trotta and the Old Lady, a far from peaceful farewell.
“I felt surprised: I had played in Serie A, I had made a free presence in the Champions League. They didn’t even tell me there, nothing“.
“They didn’t give me due and I don’t want them, but today they don’t have to ask me why you support Napoli and not Juve, they don’t have to ask me why Napoli is in my heart and I don’t give a damn about Juve. The reason is there.”
Naples in fact, the happy island of Trotta. Ivano, after the stormy love with Madama, removed Padua and Gualdo stands as the absolute protagonist in the climb of the Rimini from Serie C2 to B. Performance, goals and a performance that are worth the call of life: the Azzurri are coming back from the constant dinners of failure with Aurelio De Laurentiis and, in January 2006, he chooses to focus on Trotta to shore up the staff engaged in the run-up to the cadet.
Edy Reja reserves an important role in his own tactical chessboard and the deployment on a continuous basis, making on the boy’s skills in leveraging knowing how to interpret both the defensive and offensive phases with good profit.
The right lane plowed far and wide is valid for Trotta even once he has brought Napoli back to Serie B, where in 2006/2007 he also found 2 goals. One in particular, the one trimmed to Frosinone with time outwill prove to be fundamental for the promotion of the Azzurri to A.
“It was beautiful but above all important, scoring at the end of a match so it gave us the decisive push – 3 years ago Trotta wanted to ‘Gianlucadimarzio.com’ – It was a B that looked like an A2. We were there, Juventus, Genoa, it was an atypical championship. With the blue jersey I lived a fantastic year and a half: the promotion to B, then the ride that season up to A “.
Destiny, in that season, will make him take away the satisfaction of ‘punishing’ the Bianconeri: on 6 November 2006, in fact, in a packed ‘San Paolo’ Trotta draws the assist that allows Bogliacino to score the 1 goal. -1. Another frame to keep well embedded in the blue memory album.
“I would like to thank the city, which I still carry in my heart, and the Neapolitan fans, who are truly magnificent – the act of love dispensed by the former lateral in 2012 to ‘IamNaples’ – I remember everyone with pleasure. It was a splendid year, and my companions in so many battles and satisfactions have been magnificent “.
“In Rimini we created everything from scratch, going up from the old Serie C2 to Serie B. Naples I completed an important personal and life project that I started when I was a child. In my opinion there are no better stages, indeed they are all important. to achieve results and for personal training “.
At the age of 30, after leaving Napoli, Trotta experiences an unhappy parenthesis in Treviso.
“The director Pierpaolo Marino kept telling me that the corporate plans for me had changed and therefore I understood that on his part there was a strong desire to sell me, even if I had the contract and could stay. opportunity to redo the same exploit in Naples, with important players then the club went bankrupt and I found myself from the stars to the rags, from a beautiful project to a failure “.
Last slots as a player spent in Ravenna and Bellaria, followed by the decision to hang up their boots and study as a coach: parenthesis as a deputy at Bellaria, then the experience at the helm of the Palocco. Today Trotta, together with his former partner at the time of Napoli Tommaso Romito, manages the ‘IT7’, a company that welcomes individual players (as well as children) and collaborates with the clubs for the improvement of the basic technique through internships or individual training.
Chosen by Gol
“It came naturally to me when I stopped playing, everyone hopes to reach the top, but it’s difficult to do it both as a player and as a coach. I always try to do everything with passion, but if I don’t reach high levels, at least I’ll have everything done with pride”.