A staggering budget for Serie D. More than one million euros would have been made available to build Pistoia Fc, the new club created with the ambition of rekindling the wounded fans of the failed UsPistoiese 1921. Such a budget, if confirmed, it would allow you to dream big. And it is on big names that the company also focuses on for management and technical staff. Not only Massimo Taibi, sports director with a rich multi-year contract, but we are also looking at Pazzini and Galbiati, who have already been contacted. Serie A names. Pippo Baragli should be in charge of the youth sector, with Renato Galli technical director. The head of the ‘old’ Pistoiese sector, Justine Sumzako, likes the feminine one.
The company that was born from the ashes of Us Pistoiese 1921, which was made to disappear by the wicked management of the then guarantor of the Orange trust, dreams big and aims high. Maurizio De Simone had not taken the arrest into account and the fact of having been put out of action by the judiciary – even if for very different events, those linked to the Pnrr – made things accelerate, with a convulsive end to the season, between the anger of some of the fans and the public silence of the political and football institutions. The more or less veiled pressures that came from many quarters, with the ‘banning’ of anyone, even among the players, who attempted to assert the values of sport and close the season on the field did the rest. The season of all the other teams in the group was distorted, as they had earned the points by sweating and investing time, energy and money. Almost all the same teams will be waiting fiercely for Pistoia FC in the next championship.
Now from the ashes of Us Pistoiese a new team is born which has in the engineer Sergio Iorio – an entrepreneur appreciated in the city – its reference shareholder and in Fabio Fossati the picklock for Serie D, the man who declaredly dreamed of the capital and who allows Pistoia football not to lose the category. It is not yet known how much his financial contribution to this operation amounts to. It’s a shame that all this happens to the detriment of another glorious Serie D club, the Aglianese team that Fossati had taken over a year ago with promises of relaunch and for which, during the last season, he repeatedly expressed words of guarantee , even if that touch of orange wanted on the black and green shirts had already put the most expert experts on the alert. Aglianese dies on the centenary of its foundation. And the only consolation that remains for the town’s fans is that of not losing football, thanks to the commitment of the Amici Miei club, determined and motivated to continue to do well and keep the name of Agliana high in the football scene. But that’s it.
Pistoia Fc is emerging quickly, thought of for some time, and can also count on the financial help of prestigious sponsors such as Vannino Vannucci and, but it is not yet confirmed, an important medical institute in Florence. The boys from the youth sector have already been evaluated, also to understand if any of them are capable of moving up to the first team. For the rest, everyone is hard at work looking for coaches and new ideas, but also figures to complete the organization chart. The talks have begun. The project will be presented in June by Iorio himself, at the Nursery Campus, after which the football season will begin, Pistoia FC’s first, while waiting and hoping to be able to buy back the US brand from the bankruptcy trustee.
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