Benevento
(fs) “As a coach I have never played in Trieste with one of my teams”. Gaetano Auteri delves into his memories, then adds … “But as a player, yes. Not to Nereo Rocco, however, but to old Grezar”. There are not many Giallorossi who have played in the new halberd stadium: Marco Pinato, when he played for Pordenone last year, as well as Benedetti who was taken from the Friulian team, but who however will not be there this time. Then Alessandro Marotta when he wore the Vicenza shirt. And, over ten years ago, Biagio Meccariello, who also scored a goal for the Halberds. History of the 2011-12 Serie C championship, with Nanu Galderisi on the Triestina bench. The Caudian defender played for Andria and the League had given a good shuffle to the groups. In the first leg match on 25 September 2011, at the degli Ulivi, the Apulians first went down for an own goal, then equalized with Cumini and obtained the winning goal with the good Biagio, who took advantage of a corner kick to score with a tap in from a few meters away.
To return to Gaetano Auteri, his love dates back to the early eighties, when he played as an attacking midfielder in Eugenio Fascetti’s Varese. Against Triestina he won more than one, starting from the 79-80 tournament when the team he played for as a promising young player won the C1 championship, arriving in B (2-0 in Lombardy, 0-0 at Grezar). Drops of memory, fragments of ancient stories. It is no coincidence that Benevento-Triestina is an absolutely unprecedented challenge, after such a different past and many kilometers separating their destinies.
In the photo a Fascetti-branded Varese team with a very young Auteri (penultimate standing from the left)
