Having achieved safety, Akragas draws its first conclusions. And listening to what owner Giuseppe Deni just said in a video published on the club’s Facebook page, the first result is that next year Marco Coppa will no longer be the coach.
There is no exemption but…
There is no exemption but if the words have weight and meaning the decision is this: «Everything has its time and the time of young people and consolidation is over and we must move towards another logic with ‘Akragas that he begins to play the role he must have. We will make choices for all times, it is no longer the time for consolidation.” Deni didn’t exonerate Coppa – after all there is only one more match to face without any worries – but he clearly responded to the post-Syracusa statements of the coach who spoke of a young team. Statements that evidently were not liked because the video is at least irregular for the times. It means that Deni didn’t like them at all. It is no coincidence that the owner listed the most representative elements of the squad and the number of championships played in Serie D. «We have set up a team of great dignity and everyone takes on their own responsibilities – thundered Deni – the fault is not of the club and of managers”, thus giving responsibility to the technical sector. «The coach achieved the objective we set ourselves but everything takes its time».
But the errors are not just in the technical sector
And so far the words of Giuseppe Deni. It is undeniable that there were technical errors: Akragas lost 16 games out of 33 and therefore approximately half of the matches played, they have the fifth-to-last defense in the championship with 53 goals conceded in 33 games. On 4 occasions he conceded at least 4 goals, as in the painful Esseneto derby in the first against Licata (1 to 4), the 0 to 4 in Locri in the 11th, the 1 to 4 in Trapani in the 24th, the 1 to 5 in Reggio Calabria in the 33rd and now the last 0 to 4 last Sunday in Syracuse. I would also add Acireale’s 3-3 after being ahead 3-0.
The swing of the game
A swing of results that nevertheless gave salvation essentially without mental worries but with a playing figure that was not always brilliant to put it mildly (and it’s not just the infamous Esseneto pitch that has something to do with it). Yet Giuseppe Deni and his collaborators, who essentially gave the entire technical structure the thumbs up, made some mistakes. The first is to have distorted the technical project from the beginning: if you take a coach who has only worked with young people (like Coppa in Taormina) and then give him Garufo, Sanseverino, Litteri, Llama for as long as he was there but who is arrived with a physical condition inversely proportional to its technical depth, it is not exactly a “coherent” technical project. And in fact Coppa, whose communication register has remained that of Taormina, focuses attention – when he loses – on the young people of his team. They’re not just young people. There was also the tirade with Morimoto which ended in an embarrassing flop. And then the age-old question of the revolving doors: if 40 players arrive in Agrigento every year with the transfer market practically always open, there is some problem. Also because let’s face it: if Litteri was unpresentable before Christmas, that was where we needed to get a ten-goal striker. Then, fortunately, Litteri changed gear and scored the goals that brought the team to safety. The technical project always starts from stability and 40 arrivals and transfers cannot be admitted. Mistakes from which Giuseppe Deni, hopefully, has learned.
