The championship of Excellence for Civitavecchia Calcio ends after several weeks without much appeal. At 11 am the last match of the season on the Astrea pitch, at the Giuseppe Falcone pitch in Rome, with the planning that will see everyone on the pitch at the same time, to guarantee contemporaneity for the 90 minutes that will end the season, at least for many. For a Civitavecchia team that has had practically nothing to play for for some time, and in this case there isn’t even the motivation to reach fifth place, already in the safe since last week, there is an Astrea team that absolutely must get a result. If the ministerial team did not win, they would be certain of participation in the playouts, a minus considering the fact that the Romans have always navigated in the quiet areas of the championship and until some time ago very few would have expected a clear decline. Astrea must win and hope for Audace not to win at home against Montespaccato to get out of the eight-point range and therefore stay in the top regional category without having to risk anything in particular. Civitavecchia, as demonstrated last Sunday against Luiss and in other previous matches, will not give anything to anyone, even if it is clear that the very marked difference in motivation, added to the hot weather conditions that are expected over the weekend, will break the rhythms. Several were absent for this last round of waltzes, from Contini to Vittorini, from Scalzone to Romagnoli, among the injured and unavailable. «It was a championship a little below expectations – declares the president of Civitavecchia, Patrizio Presutti – not so much for not having achieved the objective, which, along the way we realized was really complicated due to the high competitiveness, but at the same time it’s true that we should have remained hooked to the Serie D dream for a longer period, we found ourselves out of the running at the beginning of February. This aspect left a big bad taste in the mouth.” With the championship issue already put to rest and with coach Raffaele Scudieri announcing his separation from the club at the end of the match against Astrea, off-field issues have already taken over. Scudieri specified, during his statements, that it was a choice made by the club, and in a very cordial and polite manner, he accepted the decision and made himself available, in the future, to occupy the Nerazzurri bench again. The coaching toto has officially begun. Little certain information filters out of Tamagnini, but the feeling is that the favorite for the bench could be Massimo Castagnari. The coach who left Viterbo early, last Sunday he was at the Tamagnini to watch Civitavecchia-Luiss, is fully in tune with the environment and could accept the possibility of venturing into a large-scale project, which will not immediately provide great satisfaction, given that, as has been said several times, until Fattori returns to the city, it will be difficult to see a Civitavecchia stationed in Serie D. Castagnari himself has not at all confirmed his return to the Nerazzurri, which, if it were to become reality, it would be the third landing. «We are working to give a structure to the company – continues Patrizio Presutti – due to the known events. Castagnari is one of the candidates to become the new coach next season. Civitavecchia will start again from the youth sector, we will invest heavily in the youth sector for the new year. We will do a little less regarding the first team in terms of budget. We don’t want to blame anyone, but it’s clear that there is still this problem linked to the systems. Let’s wait for Fattori, then maybe we’ll try the jump to Serie D. We’ll build competitive teams, with the desire to play in medium-high championships, but as regards the jump to category, we’ll think about it later. It’s clear that appetite comes with eating, in football you never know.” It should be remembered that Civitavecchia has achieved important achievements in the youth sector in recent times, including the historic qualification for the Regional Elite playoffs of the Juniores team, while, last Sunday, the 2007 Allievi managed to win the playout, but not without difficulty, because for to get the better of Petriana, penalties were necessary. Returning to concluding with the Eccellenza, Astrea-Civitavecchia will be refereed by Marco Ventrone from the Roma 1 section, with the assistants being Michele Di Mambro from Cassino and Francesco Maria Mattacchione, also from the Ciociara section.
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