Emanuele Troise will not be Rimini’s coach next season. A dozen lines of press release and you’re done. It changes. So they decided in the red and white house. Accompanying everything with the usual ritual phrases. “The president Stefania di Salvo – he states – on behalf of all the managers and the entire club, thanks the coach and his staff for the great work done since his arrival in a difficult situation in the rankings, carrying out the task with total dedication and sense of responsibility. The company wishes Emanuele Troise the best professional and human satisfaction in the future.” In short, all good, but not enough for confirmation. Assuming that the choice was made by the club. Confirmation of this then comes from hearing Mr. Troise.
“The decision certainly didn’t depend on me – the now former Rimini coach is keen to point out – The choice was made by the club. I would have liked to stay, I’ve been repeating it for months. But in the last few days I had had some inklings, even just thinking about that phone call from the management that never came. It’s clear that for what we did, for how the season ended, I didn’t expect it to end like this, and I know that in this world it doesn’t have to having too many expectations.”
Troise is obviously disappointed and almost gets emotional when he thinks of ‘his people’. “Next week I will still be in Rimini to greet the boys – he says reading and rereading the dozens of messages received from those players with whom he shared joys and sorrows along the way – I will take a moment with them because I owe it to the players. Then I thank the fans for everything they gave us. It was a privilege and this is a year that I will always carry in my heart.” Meanwhile, in the Rimini household we are evidently already thinking about tomorrow. And the first name that pops up, well before the divorce from Troise became known, is that of the former coach of Sestri Levante, Enrico Barilari, 50 years old, originally from Levanto, in the province of La Spezia, the life of a mister born and grew up in Liguria. Barilari who now 15 days ago, immediately after the end of the regular season with the safety of his team in his pocket, said goodbye to the Ligurian club after three seasons. Rejecting the renewal proposal that had been made to him by the club in which he grew up, reaching professional football. Probably with the desire to compete with a more important place. Could it be Piazza del Popolo?
