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Relegated to Eccellenza in a match that was the reflection of the entire second part of the season. Portrait of Barletta’s performance in the defeat of Angri, 1-0 which wrote the final word on a season that started badly and ended worse, with a drop in category on the pitch that the red and white colors had lacked for 22 years. As has always happened from December onwards, with only one victory in the last 23 games, we saw a willing team but punished by the individual errors of a squad full of limitations and poor in leaders, morals and technicians. Capone’s gross blackout caused the penalty converted by Palmieri and marked the end of a sporting year that had the flavor of agony. Yes, because the technical errors on the field are preceded by many, too many signals that only those who chose to turn their heads the other way – and for months there were not few of them – were unable to grasp. Our sports editorial team spoke for a long time about the flaws in the Barletta 1922 project, even while others were wringing their hands with applause for bombastic transfer announcements (see under Schelotto, who then got off the ship as soon as the breakers became apparent) or reeling off the CVs of sporting director Gigi Pavarese, the same person capable of claiming in the summer to have the presumption of having set up a team that could “play with everyone”. And it’s true, because Barletta took the field against everyone, but won very little and lost a lot. Until saying goodbye to a Serie D that was regained with difficulty two summers ago after seven years of ordeal on the Eccellenza fields.
The number one manager has a first and last name: Mario Dimiccoli. It will be up to him, who in the meantime has undertaken negotiations for the sale of the club to the entrepreneur from Campania but based in Rome, Francesco Agnello, to give the public the explanations that 3,000 or so season ticket holders deserve after a humiliating season, in which it was passed off as “team capable of going beyond fourth place” what was an empty box. But be careful, Dimiccoli certainly did not act alone: he was legitimized by the silent approval of those who worked with and for him, by the sponsors who obeyed the diktat of not sponsoring Telesveva’s live broadcasts while distributing perks even on editorial products that have a reader only. And what can we say about the communications staff, the one who endorsed the decision to prevent fans for months – the same ones who paid money with season tickets and sponsors, those used to set up the team – from commenting on Barletta’s social posts: in Korea North, probably, there is more dignity. Dimiccoli basically did what we expected from the summer also because he could count on a fleet of accomplices. Who have lost any form of credibility to play football in the city. We will not join the flock of figures who are now rushing to say “I said so too”. We say to them have a good lunch on the remains of Barletta, but you are just vultures.
