“Pisa, Castagnini on pole as sporting director. Contacts with the ‘painter'”, headline The nation.
In recent months he has worked in Brescia and, before that, in Perugia and Palermo. The name of Giuseppe Magalini would also emerge in the list of directors.
A shift in experience is coming for the position of sports director. The Pisa Sporting Club has in fact intensified contacts with Renzo Castagnini, 67 years old, with a very long career as a director. The “painter”, so nicknamed in the football world, would be in pole position to take over Stefano Stefanelli and is in the small circle of possible directors to continue the Nerazzurri sporting project. In recent months Castagnini has worked in Brescia (where his contract is expiring) and, before that, he held the position of director of Perugia and Palermo, bringing them back to Serie B in 2022. However, he was also director of Genoa, Vicenza , Piacenza, Cosenza, Catania and Salernitana, as well as becoming head of the Juventus scouts for a period. A circle that closes, given that Stefanelli will go to the “Old Lady”. Castagnini, among other things, is the one who discovered Lorenzo Lucca by bringing him to Palermo in Sicily and so it would be another circle that closes. Contacts, especially this weekend, are intensifying.
In the restricted circle of possible directors, the name of Giuseppe Magalini, 62 years old, sporting director of Catanzaro, who is currently under contract with the Calabrian club which has played its cards for promotion to Serie A, would also have emerged. slowly, in the small circle, Mattia Baldini also remains, former scouting manager and technical coordinator of Sampdoria, son of the former Roma manager Franco. Luciano Zavagno, however, was more secluded, even if the contacts continued. The former Pisa player, with a recent past in Palermo, is currently involved in the City Group in South America, on behalf of New York City, the Major League Soccer franchise. Pisa likes him, but in recent hours he has become more of an outsider than a leading name. In Giovanni Corrado’s contact list in recent weeks, however, there were also Andrea Mancini of Sampdoria, Davide Vaira of Modena and Paolo Bravo of Sud Tirol who could become very relevant again only if the marriage with Castagnini does not take place […].
