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Napoli president: Owning club shows you can do anything in life if you want to

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Napoli president Aurelio de Laurentiis says owning the club has been a great life lesson.

De Laurentiis is delighted to see Napoli now again at the top of the world.

He said: "It's a toy that belongs to the De Laurentiis family and until we get tired there's no reason why I should sell it.

"Five years before buying it, I arrived from Ferlaino with a check for 125 billion to get it and Ferlaino sued me.

"Then I stopped thinking about it, I was in Capri and I read that Gaucci from Santo Domingo said he was buying Napoli: it had gone bankrupt and I decided against the advice of my family, with my son Luigi who said that I had nothing to do with football, to take it and I showed that if one wants to, he can do anything in life."

De Laurentiis also was asked about the ownership of Bari.

He added: "I have to (sell), if the law doesn't change there are no solutions. I'd like it to work like in the rest of Europe, where father and son can have two teams. As a man from the south, I would have liked to keep it, also because De Caro gave me a mind so to buy it. My son was very good, entering a world he did not know."

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