“From a footballing point of view, Reggio Calabria was raped last summer, it was important to start again. And starting from scratch in a very short time is not easy. We really worked day and night”
The club manager of Lfa Reggio Calabria, Giuseppe, said this Practical, spoke during the program “Tutti nel balloon” on L’altro Corriere TV. The Amaranth manager in a long interview in which he also underlined what changes now for the club after the start of the bankruptcy process for Reggina1914 “The approach to achieving our primary objectives certainly changes. Since the beginning of September, the property has set itself the task ofobjective of acquiring the trademark and name of Reggina1914. For us it is equivalent to winning a championship, it is an objective that we want to achieve at all costs. Also because this club was chosen both by the institutions but also by the Federation to represent the maximum football expression of the city and for over 110 years the maximum football expression of this city has been called Reggina”
Piazza violated by two non-Reggio authentic properties and so can the regginità of Praticò and the other Reggio managers represent a guarantee for this new property, also from outside the region? “What pushed me to accept Doctor Minniti and Doctor Ballarino’s invitation to take on the role of Club Manager is a great sense of responsibility. I consider myself a son of Reggio. In ’86, when I was only 12 years old, my father started again from yet another failure together with Foti and Benedetto. I grew up on bread and Reggina and I couldn’t escape this invitation. There is no need to be a guarantor because I I know this property well, I work there every day and they are respectable people, serious entrepreneurs who are fulfilling all their commitments“
Why doesn’t the square like this property? “Because this property found itself in a perfect political storm. Politics because the mayor, who must indicate a company to the Federation, eight years ago when there was a similar situation he did not have an alternative to Praticò ownership. This time, the acting mayor Brunetti, due to an excess of transparency, decided to make an expression of interest and more subjects showed up. For a series of reasons that the mayor illustrated, the choice fell on the Minniti-Ballarino couple. Perhaps the first skepticism arose from there, from the fact that this property is seen as a political choice and in politics there are those who think one way and those another. But there was no favoritism towards Lfa Reggio Calabria on the part of the institutions. A choice must be made and whatever choice the mayor had made there would have been another current that would have criticized it. However, I think that as citizens of Reggio we should stop. The team belongs to this owner who wants to bring Reggio Calabria back to the professional ranks as soon as possible, who wants to invest in Reggio Calabria and who is doing so without a euro of arrears. Here lies the problem, it is thought that this was a political choice but this is not the case. This is a property that wants to do things right without biting off more than it can chew and leaving debts as happened previously. We read the sentence that sanctioned the end of Reggina 1914 and we discovered some serious profiles. Many lies have been told. I I remember an interview with Sportitalia by the former owner of Reggina in which he declared that he had put 15 million euros into Reggina but this does not appear from the documents. So I repeat Reggio Calabria was raped and didn’t deserve it. Today I prefer to deal with an owner who wants to do things well and who wants to take the long step. The objectives will certainly be achieved”
