The club did not bandage its head and wasted no time regretting its sporting director. Beyond the annoyance at the way in which the divorce took place (and is still taking place), in via Gioacchino da Fiore they immediately reconnected with old discussions and surveys to identify Giuseppe Magalini’s replacement. It is a question parallel to the intricate issue relating to Vincenzo Vivarini, always requested in Serie A and awaited on Tuesday by the confrontation with president Noto. Management.
The sixth transfer market man of this management (before the Venetian who is about to join Bari there have been Doronzo, Logiudice, Cerri and Pelliccioni), could be the youngest of all: Matteo Lovisa, paired with the Giallorossi in winter, is a concrete and already explored idea that teases the club for a series of reasons. The first is age: the Juve sporting director Stabia is very young, but has a fair amount of experience behind him between the last Serie C championship won with the Campania team and the six previous seasons of training in his family’s Pordenone team (his father was the owner and president) with annexed jump to B dated 2019. Very close to Cristiano Giuntoli, technical director of Juventus, Lovisa is one of the profiles that the Catanzaro owners consider potentially suitable for setting up a new project on the managerial level. However, he is not the only one among the sporting directors under observation: at the moment there is someone on the scene who knows what he is doing like Luca Leone (for four years at Ternana) and, further down, other figures who however are less convincing for various reasons, such as Ciro Polito who has just been released by Bari. However, Mauro Meluso must be considered unattainable, who after finishing with Napoli would prefer not to return to Serie B (and in any case so far he has not been contacted by Catanzaro). This week there should also be news on the choice of the new general manager: the ownership can fish within the same company (and the same family?) or take an external route, however it is now in the final headlines, after four years, even the the adventure of Diego Foresti. Trainer. The only change that the club would have difficulty accepting is the one on the bench: Catanzaro has absolutely no intention of parting with Vivarini, which remains the center of the entire project and the architrave on which the owner wants to build the next season, thanks to a contract valid for another year and a project, started in 2022, which has not yet reached an arrival point . The problem, for the Abruzzo coach, is always the same: if the proposals from Serie A prove stronger than a simple survey or interest, it will be complicated, if not impossible, to convince him to stay. How could you retain a 58-year-old coach who, for the first time, has the chance to lead a top-flight team? Venezia are a danger, but perhaps Pozzo’s Udinese are even more so now that they have made their divorce from Cannavaro official. And Cagliari shouldn’t be forgotten. All three are busy with a casting (Venetian and Friulian on Di Francesco, Sardinian on Andreazzoli and more), but Vivarini continues to be present in the consultation round, having already heard and/or met all three. The face-to-face meeting in the city between Vivarini and Noto on Tuesday should clarify something, if not everything. The fans are keeping their fingers crossed and hoping that the coach will stay. The club hopes so too.
