{"id":946335,"date":"2026-03-11T19:26:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T19:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-italia.net\/?p=946335"},"modified":"2026-03-11T19:26:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T19:26:42","slug":"mctominay-cant-do-without-coffee-now-napoli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-italia.net\/mctominay-cant-do-without-coffee-now-napoli\/","title":{"rendered":"McTominay &#8216;can&#8217;t do without coffee now,&#8217; reveals Napoli legend","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- Article Start --><p>A legend of the Napoli locker room who goes back to the Diego Maradona days has anointed Scott McTominay as a \u2018Neapolitan-Scotsman\u2019 now he \u2018can\u2019t do without our coffee.\u2019<\/p><p>The Scotland international has flourished in Italy since making the move from Manchester United in 2024, as he won the Serie A title and the Supercoppa Italiana, being named Player of the Year in Italy\u2019s top league.<\/p><figure id=\"attachment_918094\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-918094\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/icdn.football-italia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ssc-napoli-training-session-and--414x276.jpg\" alt=\"MANCHESTER, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 17: Scott McTominay and Rasmus Hojlund of SSC Napoli inspect the pitch during a stadium familiarisation ahead of the UEFA Champions League 2025\/26 League Phase MD1 against Manchester City at City of Manchester Stadium on September 17, 2025 in Manchester, England. (Photo by Molly Darlington\/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-918094\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icdn.football-italia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ssc-napoli-training-session-and--414x276.jpg 414w, https:\/\/icdn.football-italia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ssc-napoli-training-session-and--630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/icdn.football-italia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ssc-napoli-training-session-and--768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/icdn.football-italia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ssc-napoli-training-session-and--190x127.jpg 190w, https:\/\/icdn.football-italia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ssc-napoli-training-session-and--245x163.jpg 245w, https:\/\/icdn.football-italia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ssc-napoli-training-session-and--320x213.jpg 320w, https:\/\/icdn.football-italia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ssc-napoli-training-session-and--770x513.jpg 770w, https:\/\/icdn.football-italia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ssc-napoli-training-session-and--900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/icdn.football-italia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ssc-napoli-training-session-and--310x207.jpg 310w, https:\/\/icdn.football-italia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ssc-napoli-training-session-and--1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/icdn.football-italia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ssc-napoli-training-session-and-.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-918094\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MANCHESTER, ENGLAND \u2013 SEPTEMBER 17: Scott McTominay and Rasmus Hojlund of SSC Napoli inspect the pitch during a stadium familiarisation ahead of the UEFA Champions League 2025\/26 League Phase MD1 against Manchester City at City of Manchester Stadium on September 17, 2025 in Manchester, England. (Photo by Molly Darlington\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure><p>Now the 29-year-old has become a true member of the local family, embraced by an icon of the club\u2019s history, kit man Tommy Starace.<\/p><p>The figure has been part of the staff since the days when Diego Armando Maradona was the star man, and one of his main jobs is keeping everyone busy with <a href=\"https:\/\/football-italia.net\/mctominay-sceptical-napoli-coffee-average-two\/\">a steady supply of freshly made espresso.<\/a><\/p><h2>Even McTominay convinced by Napoli habit<\/h2><figure id=\"attachment_886490\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-886490\" style=\"width: 195px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/icdn.football-italia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/mctominay-starace-414x637.jpg\" alt=\"Scott McTominay and Napoli legend Tommaso Starace\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-886490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icdn.football-italia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/mctominay-starace-414x637.jpg 414w, https:\/\/icdn.football-italia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/mctominay-starace-190x292.jpg 190w, https:\/\/icdn.football-italia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/mctominay-starace-245x377.jpg 245w, https:\/\/icdn.football-italia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/mctominay-starace-320x492.jpg 320w, https:\/\/icdn.football-italia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/mctominay-starace-310x477.jpg 310w, https:\/\/icdn.football-italia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/mctominay-starace.jpg 467w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-886490\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scott McTominay and Napoli legend Tommaso Starace<\/figcaption><\/figure><p>\u201cMcTominay didn\u2019t like our coffee when he arrived, but now he can\u2019t do without it,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calcionapoli24.it\/le_interviste\/starace-mctominay-iscozzese-napoletano-i-non-gli-piaceva-il-caff-ora-non-n681200.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Starace told Radio Kiss Kiss.<\/a><\/p><p>\u201cHe is not Scottish. He\u2019s a Neapolitan-Scotsman.\u201d<\/p><p>Starace is also famous because <a href=\"https:\/\/football-italia.net\/video-napoli-legend-tommy-strikes-again\/\">former Napoli star Dries Mertens used to copy his dance moves<\/a> as a goal celebration.<\/p><p>\u201cI have a friendship built over the years not only with Mertens, but also Insigne, McTominay and many others.\u201d<\/p><p class=\"\" style=\"max-width: px\"><smartframe-embed customer-id=\"a61405551f80e72f675225f083759bb9\" image-id=\"fwuQgzsWn2b1\" style=\"width: 100%; display: inline-flex; max-width: 3543px; aspect-ratio: 3543\/2362;\"><\/smartframe-embed><\/p><p>A big part of that is the gesture of carrying around the coffee, pouring it fresh from the Moka stovetop pot, sometimes even for <a href=\"https:\/\/football-italia.net\/video-napoli-legend-starace-brings-coffee-to-dazn-crew\/\">television presenters and pundits who happen to be on the pitch<\/a> during the warm-up.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"it\" dir=\"ltr\">Che grande il nostro Tommaso Starace! Questa \u00e8 la nostra Napoli! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/peR2Qn0sMT\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/peR2Qn0sMT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Francesco \ud83c\udf10 (@Francesco_abyss) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Francesco_abyss\/status\/1634595994628239361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 11, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><p>\u201cCoffee is not just coffee, it is love, it means respect for a person, that we are grateful to have you with us,\u201d he added.<\/p><p>\u201cWe Neapolitans have a good heart, so we like to welcome everyone with the same perfume of coffee in the air.\u201d<\/p><p class=\"\" style=\"max-width: px\"><smartframe-embed customer-id=\"a61405551f80e72f675225f083759bb9\" image-id=\"fwuQMkAyHsNG\" style=\"width: 100%; display: inline-flex; max-width: 4032px; aspect-ratio: 4032\/2688;\"><\/smartframe-embed><\/p><p>It is not the only Italian habit that McTominay has picked up, because he also confessed that he used to hate eating tomatoes because they \u201ctasted like red water,\u201d but changed his mind after trying the Neapolitan version.<\/p><!-- Article End -->","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A legend of the Napoli locker room who goes back to the Diego Maradona days&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":90,"featured_media":935556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,21,41484,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-946335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-napoli","category-newsnow","category-serie-a"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/icdn.football-italia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Scott-McTominay-leap.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"link","format":"url"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-italia.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946335"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-italia.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-italia.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-italia.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-italia.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=946335"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/football-italia.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":946337,"href":"https:\/\/football-italia.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946335\/revisions\/946337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-italia.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/935556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-italia.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-italia.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-italia.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}