Lots of field, a brilliant career behind him despite 28 years still to go. Sebastiano Luperto , former captain and leader of Empoli, follows Nicola on the Sardinian journey and is not afraid of new things:

"I can't wait to get started." Left-wing defender, "my arm" as he underlines, "but I can also play central." He was in the great Napoli of Benitez, Sarri and above all Ancelotti, he has a secret for his thirty-eight out of thirty-eight matches in the '23-24 Serie A : « I'm a maniac about training, nutrition, work on the pitch and in the gym ». An example, in short, in a team where the word "young" is the fashionable one.

Cagliari presented by his former teammates: « Marin, Walukiewicz and Vicarò spoke very well about the city and the team, but also Grassi , the last ex-Cagliari player I played with». The group: «They welcomed me very well, I immediately got along wonderfully, I didn't accept immediately because I had to talk about it with my family first ».

Nicola's Cagliari: «The coach cares a lot about intensity, pressing, physical work according to the match». And he - he smiles when they point it out - in this training camp he hasn't missed a single pass, a defensive change, or a ball. His number? «I would have liked the 33 but it's busy, I could take the 6» .