Parma will also be at the starting line of the next Serie A 2024/25: after a long and painful pursuit of promotion, the Crusader team managed to achieve the objective it had set for itself since the day after the ruinous relegation of 2021. It hasn’t been an easy season for Pecchia and his boys, who had to push hard to avoid sudden drops in tension and were always followed by opponents such as Catanzaro, Cremonese, Venezia and Como. But in the end, the Crusaders proved to be the strongest. In this end-of-year report we are going to see the contribution of all the protagonists of the year, starting from the pinnacle, from Kyle Krause.
A market perhaps a little subdued compared to the trumpet blasts to which the yellow-blue club had become accustomed, but the very important confirmation of Fabio Pecchia on the bench to lead more or less the same team as the previous year, without however the cumbersome presence of Franco Vazquez to influence the choices from a tactical point of view. On the pitch, however, everything is, or almost everything, exciting: first place in the standings from the first to the last day, a round of the Italian Cup passed brilliantly in Lecce and the feat just missed in Florence.
The numbers – 325 million euros invested during his adventure in Parma are a very heavy calling card for the owner, who has seen the continuity line paid after the revolutions carried out in the first transfer sessions. Only Juve and Roma in Italy have invested more than the American in Italy and now Parma finds itself exactly at the starting point, that is to say in Serie A and with a very difficult survival to conquer. What is different is the age of the personnel and the certainties that the young crusaders have accumulated along the way.
Highlight moment – The last few weeks have certainly been the best for Krause since he acquired the club: the chants that welcomed the patron to the world upon his return to Parma after the trip to Bari perhaps repaid him for all the suffering he experienced in these 4 years , with the painful relegation and the difficult path back towards the football that counts. Appearing almost embarrassed by the love he received, the president described the promotion he had just won to our microphones as “beautiful” and then headed to Piazza Garibaldi, where the emotion gave way to immense happiness, with the help of a few glasses of liquid courage.
