The future for the sporting Foggia is very uncertain after the unexpected and irrevocable resignation of president Nicola Canonico, especially from the moment he placed the title back in the hands of the mayor of Foggia, Maria Aida Episcopo. Meanwhile, yesterday one of the organized Foggia support groups, the Curva Sud, launched an appeal, through a press release, also addressed to local entrepreneurs. Below we publish the text.
“What are you willing to do for Foggia? The fans can tolerate that after having come close to qualifying for Europe in the 1993-94 Serie A season, they sadly return to C2 and since then, with the exception of promotion and the following two years of Serie B (2017-18 and 2018-19) , we have always remained stuck in Lega Pro, a category that in itself is too narrow for us, but this is our sporting history of the last 30 years or so and now you want to propose the D series, a category that does not belong to us at all and for this reason we do not you will never have our approval!
We are fans, we don’t want to talk about debts or anything else, these are not discussions that concern us and we don’t agree with many of the rules of the world of football, but we are not fools who don’t know. So possibly talk to us about the real debts in the balance sheet, specifying that in “Planet Football” the debt is something “authorized and wanted” by all the components; current regulations allow some payments to be extended or deferred. Other deadlines cannot be postponed and if they had not been respected they would have resulted in penalty points and Foggia did not suffer any penalties.
Everyone knows that 90% of professional clubs have negative balance sheets that are much larger than ours. Also explain to us who can give certainty that starting from the Amateurs you can return to the professionals after a year? Because if you were not to return to the Lega Pro after a year, in addition to the failure of a sporting objective, you would spend much more money than if you immediately restarted from the Lega Pro“, continues the note.
“Explain to us why in Serie D there are or have been many clubs that, after a sporting and/or economic failure, have taken many years to recover or, worse, are still forced to play in the Amateurs: Varese, Treviso, Cavese, Andria, Ravenna, Taranto, Trapani, Reggina, Livorno, Carpi, Siena, Piacenza, Sambenedettese, etc…
We want to believe, asking for collaboration and support from everyone, that there is someone who intends to start again from the Lega Pro. Someone who speaks to us of affection for this team and for this city, who for the sacrifices to be made can agree with the Municipality on understanding and availability for the costs of the facility, which can ask the trade associations of this city for greater proximity of “numbers and contributions” in terms of sponsorship, which can ask the fans to support the club with an important season ticket campaign, which can also be supported through valuable merchandising.
In essence, we want to hear about passion for our colours, about the desire not to let Calcio Foggia fail and to give this square and this fanbase the chance to express all their enormous warmth and love for this shirt in the football that counts . Any initiative or commitment spent in support of the club and professional football for our city will always and unconditionally have our maximum support and consent… However, we do not deserve, nor will we ever accept the death of Foggia Football and therefore starting again from the amateurs. Today [ieri, ndr] 12 May, our beloved Foggia turns 104 years of history, they cannot be thrown away for dirty interests“.
