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A note, on the occasion of Foggia’s “birthday”, to have your say on the ongoing negotiations to save Foggia and on the prospects for the Rossoneri, with the nightmare of not being able to sign up for the next Serie C. The Curva Sud takes a stand and “warns” entrepreneurs who intend to invest but to (re)start from Serie D.
THE NOTE. L… LET’S LAUGH. The nightmare of registration is back, a problem no longer experienced in recent years, now back in the limelight as in the past.
After the first two years of this ownership and the cheated Serie B, this season the sporting results were not what we hoped for. Following the defeat against Turris, Foggia risked relegation. We decided to continue to support our team, collecting criticism and attacks of all kinds, but our goal of saving the category saw us united and determined to get to the end. Now, in the same way, we ask our mayor to act as guarantor to save the Lega Pro. No one must be welcomed into the Municipality unless they demonstrate real interest in safeguarding participation in the professional championship.
We are certain that no one will have the courage to state publicly that the “death” of Calcio Foggia is more “convenient” and studied on the table… but we will equally understand that those who have not considered making an offer will have made a choice, that of start again from the amateurs; a choice that we do not deserve, we do not agree with and we would not support. We always delude ourselves that there may be local entrepreneurs who love these colors passionately without too many ifs and buts… In recent years, there have been several moments in which this passion could be demonstrated: the relegation from Serie B in 2019 could have been a occasion, but they were ALL ABSENT without justification…
The restart from Serie D was another opportunity to start again All together, but local entrepreneurship was once again ABSENT… In the first year of Lega Pro after Serie D, there were two other opportunities: in February we moved from Felleca in Pintus; in June from Pintus to Canonico, once again the local entrepreneurs were ABSENT. An unlimited “war” has been waged against the “Barese”, (also criticized by Us, but only for the sporting results of this season) now what are you willing to do for Calcio Foggia? The events surrounding Calcio Foggia become increasingly strange and intricate. We can accept sporting defeats, we can resign ourselves to the power games experienced in the last year of Serie B with rules and rankings changed at will.
We can suffer the same injustices years later against Lecco, where they prevented us from promotion to Serie B, first on the pitch despite the VAR and the “obvious oversights” (in this regard we also remember that the dialogues that took place and requested were never delivered in the “sensational episodes”… who knows why) and subsequently in the halls of power in “peremptory and unavoidable terms”. The fans can tolerate that after having come close to qualifying for Europe in the 1993-94 Serie A season, they sadly return to C2 and since then, with the exception of promotion and the two subsequent years of Serie B (2017-18 and 2018-19), have always remained stuck in Lega Pro, a category that in itself is too narrow for us, but this is our sporting history of the last 30 years or so… now you want to propose the D series, a category that does not belong to us at all and for this reason NOT YOU WILL NEVER HAVE OUR ASSENT!!! We are fans, we don’t want to talk about debts or anything else, these are not discussions that concern us and we DO NOT AGREE with many of the rules of the world of football, but we are not fools who don’t know. So possibly talk to us about the real debts in the balance sheet, specifying that in “Planet Football” the debt is something “authorized and wanted” by all the components; current regulations allow some payments to be extended or deferred. Other deadlines cannot be postponed and if they had not been respected they would have resulted in penalty points and Foggia did not suffer any penalties. Everyone knows that 90% of professional clubs have negative balance sheets that are much larger than ours.
Also explain to us who can give certainty that starting from the Amateurs you can return to the professionals after a year? Because if we were not to return to the Lega Pro after a year, in addition to the failure of a sporting objective, we would spend much more money than if we immediately restarted from the Lega Pro. Explain to us why there are or have been so many clubs in Serie D that , after a sporting and/or economic failure, it took them many years to recover or, worse, they are still forced to play in the Amateurs: Varese, Treviso, Cavese, Andria, Ravenna, Taranto, Trapani, Reggina, Livorno, Carpi, Siena, Piacenza, Sambenedettese, etc…
We want to believe, asking for collaboration and support from everyone, that there is someone who intends to start again from the Lega Pro. Someone who speaks to us of affection for this team and for this city, who for the sacrifices to be made can agree with the Municipality on understanding and availability for the costs of the facility, which can ask the trade associations of this city for greater proximity of “numbers and contributions” in terms of sponsorship, which can ask the fans to support the club with an important season ticket campaign, which can also be supported through valuable merchandising. In essence, we want to hear about passion for our colours, about the desire not to let Calcio Foggia fail and to give this square and this fanbase the chance to express all their enormous warmth and love for this shirt in the football that counts . Any initiative or commitment spent in support of the club and professional football for our city will always and unconditionally have our maximum support and consent…
However, we do not deserve, nor will we NEVER ACCEPT the death of Foggia Football and therefore the restart from the amateurs. ULTRAS SOUTH CURVE. Today 12 May, our beloved Foggia turns 104 years of history, they cannot be thrown away for dirty interests!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY FOGGIA FOOTBALL. THE MORE I LIVE THE MORE I LOVE YOU!
