PESARO Never so full. At least in recent years. The Benelli, Sunday, was overflowing with people and passion. A seething basin of colours, chants, flags and banners, literally exploded at minute 95, on the surgical diagonal of Pucciarelli who gave salvation to the View in the most incredible way, leaving for the annals an epic 4-3 against a never tamed Recanatese.
The Charge of 3,000
The Pesaro club communicated almost in real time that there were 2,944 people paying for the playout return, for a revenue of 36 thousand euros. Considering the 296 visiting fans who sat in the sector dedicated to them, to which to add a few dozen accreditations granted as expected to the Giallorossi, it goes without saying that the beating red and white hearts were over 2,500. Proof, yet another, that football in Pesaro exists beyond the passion for basketball. Vis, in its more than one hundred year history, has never gone beyond the third level of professional football. Indeed, the present is perhaps the most propitious moment ever, if it is true that we are preparing to face the seventh year of C in a row, when the longest stay in the third series had at most reached five championships (it was Bruscoli, from 2000 to 2005).
If the old but repeatedly renovated stadium in Pesaro – the last time just last summer-autumn – had had a capacity of more than 3,000 units, the impression is that attendance on Sunday would have been even more. All this for a match that will remain in the history of Pesaro football, like the C2 playoff final in Arezzo against Rimini in June 2000 and even more. A salvation which, having arrived as it did, is worth the victory of a championship. Above all because we went in an amen from hell to heaven, from desperation to joy, after weeks of living on the brink of a nervous breakdown. After a positive first round, in which however there were a few too many draws to be able to break away from the group and experience a somewhat peaceful year, on the best day Vis had melted like snow in the sun.
After the poker game against Pescara on 18 February, a crisis began that seemed endless. It all started against Recanatese, at Tubaldi where the Pesaro players had hurt themselves, and continued with a period in which only defeats occurred, with the exception of the draw in Pineto. A point in seven games which convinced the club to change technical leadership, replacing Simone Banchieri, who had his contract extended in January, with a thoroughbred like Roberto Stellone.
Few, up and down Italy, believed it possible that the architect of Frosinone’s miracles (double leap, from C to A, between 2013 and 2015) would accept Pesaro, especially after having rejected important places such as Lecco and Pescara , but Menga, the director, and the president Bosco succeeded in the feat. In the end, with Stellone on the bench, Vis achieved 3 home wins out of 3, those against Perugia and Juve Next Gen which allowed them to face the playout at home with a double result, plus the incredible 4-3 last Sunday. Three home games and three successes, when in the previous 15 matches played at the Benelli this year – 15 and not 17, because the first 2 were played in exile, curiously at the Tubaldi due to the work at the Benelli – there was only celebration on 22 October against Recanatese (another sign of destiny) and against Pescara, in the oft-cited 4-0. Decisive final change of pace at home, therefore.
Radically changing the subject, Vis announced yesterday “that it has sacked the head of the youth sector Enea Corsi”. Change of leadership, with a meager statement in which however “best wishes for the continuation of one’s professional career” are expressed. A career which, colleagues in nearby Romagna swear, should continue in Rimini with a similar role.
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