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26-11-2010

Zapata: “Can’t wait to play VS Napoli”

“Napoli are strong. We’ve got to be perfect”

He’s loaded and wants to play, Cristian Zapata. The 120 minutes he played in Coppa Italia against Lecce have (“has”?) been the hors d’oeuvre, after three weeks of “competitive abstinence” from a menu that, as a main course, serves Sunday afternoon’s match against Napoli. The Columbian ???defender is really longing to play: “I can’t wait to play this match – Zapata explained -. I feel better. After sweating for two hours, yesterday I was a bit tired, but today I feel perfect and, evidently, the work we did during the past weeks, though without official games, was excellent (enough “commas” in this sentence?). I was a bit scared against Lecce at first, but as the minutes passed I got more confident with the field. But that is a past match. Our mind is now focused on Napoli”. Napoli. A hard reality of this championship that, especially in (“on”?) the attack, has some high quality players: “We know Napoli’s value very well – continued Zapata – and we know we can’t let Hamsik, Lavezzi or Cavani too much, because they can get (“be”?) devastating. They play very well, especially by throw (???), and we should try and be short and compact and avoid being careless because it could cost us a lot. But I can tell you, Udinese is ready to face them, we all want to take this luxury scalp (scalp, like the Indians vs. John Wayne???). Defeating Napoli would be a great satisfaction for all Udinese’s world (what about the universe?). I don’t know whether Napoli are stronger than last year or not, all I know is that this is a very weird championship. Each match is very hard and has its own story so, up until the last day, we’ll have to play at our 100%”.
Zapata, finally, drives away some market rumors of the last days: “It’s just rumors – said the Columbian -. I am an Udinese player and all I think about is to make well (“do well”?) in Udine, trying to give my little contribution to the team’s good” (???).