The technician ofAkragas, Marco Coppapresented the challenge against the Porticoes:
“A difficult match awaits us, as all the championship matches have been. There is no obvious result, we will play to try to win as we always have. Then some
Sometimes it went well, other times badly. Our mentality certainly does not change. So let’s hope we can win the race. However, they are difficult matches, also because there are no easy challenges in this championship.”
“I can’t explain well what has happened in these last few weeks. Immediately after the match against Syracuse I gave my reasons and I still believe in what I said because obviously the reasons are king. We are a team that expresses itself in a certain way at home and in another way away, perhaps the opposite. This is due to the fact that perhaps there is a difference in experience, not in terms of quality of players, but in terms of playing time, between our players from Syracuse or Trapani or Vibonese. We lost badly, we could have done better, you can always do better.”
“I feel proud, indeed very proud, of the work done here in Agrigento by me and my staff. We achieved the goal and we did it well in advance, a month and a half before, with a thousand sacrifices on everyone’s part. And indeed I reiterate, and I like to do it once again, my compliments to the boys because with thousands and thousands of sacrifices they too have achieved an objective that for many seemed obvious, but for us it wasn’t. We know the efforts we have made. I’m proud, from a personal point of view and from the team’s point of view.”
“For me it was a season of great growth, a formative year from all points of view, professional and also human. I am now attached to these colors and will always support Akragas consistently. I’m also a bit of a sanguine person, this is a characteristic that accompanies me in always being sincere and transparent. I’m obviously sorry because there have been some unpleasant episodes, the last one on April 30th: I learned yesterday together with the boys about an unpleasant episode because a local newspaper wrote an article declaring things that were not true several times, for don’t say absolutely false. Above all, a possible face-to-face in Syracuse between me and Garufo, which never happened. And there was talk of a rift between me and the locker room. I would like to respond to this newspaper that all this is false, I have a wonderful relationship with my players.”
