“In the first round, Pistoiese was a super team that started with the underdogs and all 17 teams that faced them found themselves facing a battleship. It would have been enough to keep the results of the first leg valid, as happened in the past. There were anomalies in the second half of the season“. The sporting director of Ravenna Andrea Grammatica considers the recently concluded Serie D championship anomalous due to the affair involving the Tuscan club, which went bankrupt before the end of the season with the rewriting of the ranking, as explained in the columns of Tuttoc.com: “Anomaly, the ending was conditioned by the classification redrawn with 4 days to go. It is a rule that fell to us today, but tomorrow it could fall to someone else. So as a sportsman I say that it is a rule that does not give credit to the sporting results obtained on the field through the playing of real matches”.
Director, is there a bad taste left in your mouth?
“On the one hand there is the pride of having had a great season, having started amidst many difficulties: post-flood, a reduced budget for the promotion candidates. In fact, we didn’t make any proclamations and we also relied on many bets, with players who had to relaunch themselves and some other players who came from Promotion and Excellence. The bitter taste remains because this group deserved final satisfaction. On the field we finished first, with a great regular roster throughout the championship: we scored 36 points in the first leg and 36 in the return, with the best defense in Italy in terms of goals conceded.”
In short, the promotion objective was torn from a Noif rule.
“In reality, the objective declared at the beginning of the year by the club was to have a quiet championship, we didn’t have the strength to propose ourselves on a par with the contenders, but to launch some young players and build a legacy and then put the new ownership in a position to try to achieve something more ambitious the following year. However, it is true that we saw it taken from us by something that did not depend on usand as I said before this team which led almost the entire championship in the lead, finishing it on par with Carpi, who must however be given credit, he did not see his value recognized on the field“.
Where to start again?
“The company will start again from an ambitious project. They are defining the transfer of shares: there is great enthusiasm and this has also been demonstrated by the public who can’t wait to start again from what, in my opinion, is a solid group. But there will be time to talk about the future.”
