With his twelve championships at the helm of a Serie B team, the promotion with Novara taken to Serie C and led to the double leap was a masterpiece, but also equally important results such as the fourth place with Pordenone or the salvations with Ternana, Mantova and Triestina, Attilio Tesser is the comet that guides us through the meanders of the last day. Ninety-plus minutes of dreams and fears.
With still leading and trailing verdicts to be issued. Will it be a formality for Como to secure the ticket for second place? “No I do not think so. Gone are, or at least I like to think so, the times when unmotivated teams avoided each other. I really believe that Cosenza will go and play it. He has a free head and a player like Tutino, who is certainly not satisfied with what he has done so far. Then it is obvious that Como, in addition to motivation, has a high level of quality on its side and the team has been waiting for Serie A for more than 20 years so it will push its team hard. But don’t say that they’ve been waiting for promotion for a long time (he smiles, ed.) because I won a Serie B championship in Novara after 55 years of waiting… Jokes aside, Como must not make the mistake of going onto the pitch confident of the three points . Otherwise Venezia can take advantage of it, even if Vanoli’s team has the most difficult match against a Spezia who is not yet safe. This will probably be the toughest and most uncertain match of the last day.”
Do you see a project that started two or three years ago in Como and Venice as well as in Parma’s victory? “Surely. Strong properties behind them, in Como they even tell me that there are no problems with salaries and the owners are investing a lot. They also had the strength to defend a change of coach that seemed strange because Longo was doing very well, but they evidently thought that there were a series of pieces to insert and so they did. Parma were already favorites last year, the American owners arrived and were immediately relegated, but they didn’t give up and were able to raise their heads again with a well-defined program.”
Do you foresee any surprises in the playoffs? «Whoever doesn’t go up immediately between Como and Venice will be the favorite together with the Cremonese. In terms of staff and strength they have something more than the others, but be careful: after 38 days the best ones immediately rise, the championship doesn’t lie, the playoffs on the other hand are something different and there can be room in these inside or outside matches for everyone and not it’s a way of saying”.
Catanzaro, who plays well, is newly promoted, has no pressure, could they be the loose cannon in the post season? «They were protagonists of a formidable season, I have confidence. Palermo may seem disappointed for not finishing in the first two, but they will be able to reset. And you will see that Sampdoria and Brescia will also play their chances until the end. That’s the beauty of this formula.”
