Monday 10 June 2024 – 00:56 am – Author: Dimitri Canello
A few hours after the defeat in Carrara, Vicenza suddenly finds itself lost and is looking for a foothold to restart. 23 consecutive useful results were not enough to make up for a disastrous first round and the objective – Serie B, which had really come close, vanished right on the final straight. Losing a final is atrocious, Triestina (ko with Pisa in 2019), Padova (two knockouts with Alessandria and Palermo in 2021 and 2022) and Cittadella (two knockouts with Verona in 2019 and Venice in 2021) know something about it. Getting back up after losing on the last dive is difficult, for many reasons. Let’s start the post-Carrara analysis by saying that the result achieved on the pitch is right and that Carrarese deserved the promotion. Whether it has the structure to equip itself in Serie B and not be the usual meteor like Alessandria, Lecco and Feralpisalò were, without forgetting Padova itself, this remains to be seen and verified. Between the first leg and the second leg, Vicenza showed up on the pitch with an exhausted team, now without energy, with a series of defections that would have knocked out a bison. When you’re missing 3/4 of your spine, any team would be in trouble. Having said that, between the two legs Vicenza practically didn’t make a shot towards goal, with the only flash coming from Costa in the first leg. For the rest, Carrarese, without doing anything exceptional or out of the norm, was superior. And Serie B, as mentioned, deserved it without any “ifs” or “buts”. The red and white restlessness is determined by the very serious injuries suffered by its players: after Rolfini, who had ruptured the cruciate ligament in his knee, here is Ronaldo in the first leg of the final and, perhaps, also Ferrari in the return. Vecchi took a risk, trying to throw the Argentine into the fray, evidently affected by the injury, which then created another one that was probably much more serious. Now the thing not to do is to resist the temptation to reset everything again and not squander what was built in the second round, even if without Ronaldo and Ferrari for many months and with Tronchin already from Cittadella, both the midfield and the team will have to be rebuilt. ‘attack. Obviously Vecchi deserves confirmation and Vicenza must start from him again. It is more difficult to understand what will happen in the control room: Luca Matteassi is not certain of the confirmation and behind the scenes the name of Luca Leone is already being mentioned. We will know soon whether it will be a right or wrong track. In the meantime, Serie C is becoming a curse for Renzo Rosso, who after six years is still at the starting point and is no longer able to free himself from those quicksands that claim illustrious victims every year.
Joseph Oughourlian also arrived in his sixth year and is certainly not doing better than his colleague in Padua. Indeed, he is about to leave again, apparently, without having understood that capital gains cannot be enough to play football. We need a connection with the place in which we operate, we need not to let managers who, two weeks after the crime, don’t even have the courage to face microphones and notebooks to justify their failed choices from January onwards. . Except with little letters without cross-examination that are worth less than zero. Padova were second in the standings in the first round, they hadn’t lost a single match, a direct match lost badly was enough to make those who, on the contrary, should have guaranteed it lose their balance. And so here is a needlessly extra-large market and the reckless dismissal of Vincenzo Torrente with three days to go. The double slap in the playoffs with Vicenza and the protest of the vast majority of organized fans? As if nothing had happened. And down there are “showcases” in national showcases about how good the director is at selling players, about the “excellent job done”, as if staying in Serie C meant that one should also be grateful for jumping for joy. Ultimately, it’s a shame that there is a lack of considerations on everything else. A few questions, but only the first, that we would like to ask and that we ask here. Why did Crescenzi, one of the best in the first round, never see the pitch again? Why did Trevor Trevisan disappear from the radar? Why are some youth players always hooked by the same agents? What was the point of taking Valente? Why didn’t the director defend the coach during the first problems in the locker room, favored by the arrival of too many players on the scene in January? One year it was Pavanel’s fault, then Caneo’s, then Torrente’s. The weakest link always pays, that is, those on the bench, yet the real bad choices of the owners are the managers, at least in terms of how they behaved and continue to behave in Padua. After five years it’s time to do some calculations and make some sums, but in Padua they don’t seem to have understood anything about the reasons why we always get stuck in the third series. With the same problems, with the same patterns that are repeated year after year, with the same detachment from a fan base that promises mass protests if everything remains as before. Regardless of who the coach will be: tonight Domenico Toscano seems closer to other shores, Matteo Andreoletti would be yet another bet in a vast sea of nebulous strategies and without a real common thread.
These are hectic days for the benches in the middle of the Triveneto. I am personally happy that Paolo Zanetti has a new chance in Verona. A courageous choice, that of Sean Sogliano, who evidently believes in the quality of the Vicenza coach despite Empoli’s dismissal. Curious that the Valdagne native Zanetti will first coach Venezia and then Verona, in search of that sacred fire that led him to save Empoli in the first year of his experience in Tuscany after his promotion with Venezia and his dismissal the following year . Ups and downs that did not fully clarify its true dimension. Zanetti, a sanguine with an interesting and modern idea of football, will have to deal with a hot place, which has always appreciated coaches with character. And he will have a great chance to make a change in his career, perhaps with the help of Sogliano, who moves in Verona as if he were in his footballing paradise, where he succeeds in all the moves that he hasn’t succeeded elsewhere.
Rebus bench in Udine, Venice and Trento. In Friuli, Cannavaro was given the boot, as he had completed his mission in one way or another. And that he would willingly stay. The outsider is called Massimo Donati, who also has an offer from Kallithea, Greece. Then there are Di Francesco and Vivarini, two names also at stake in Venice. But the real salvation man we should focus on with our eyes closed is Davide Nicola and it is no coincidence that Cagliari went knocking on his door in an attempt to snatch him away from Empoli. Giampaolo, Pirlo, Bocchetti, D’Aversa are the other names going around in the vortex, we will find out the rest very soon. To date, Torino have not yet paid the clause for Paolo Vanoli: the longer the time goes on, the more surprises cannot be ruled out. But tomorrow could be a decisive day. Finally, in Trento, there are four names in play: Chiappella, Tabbiani, Corrent and Andreoletti, the latter however being the most difficult to reach, especially if Padova or Feralpisalò were to get serious. The season ends today, but summer football has just begun. And how many will be said, how many voices, how many chatter, how many tips, how many bangs still to explode along the way. Finally, Triestina: everything is silent, for now, after Santoni’s arrival. A choice, we reiterate, courageous, but which in our opinion has a concrete chance of proving successful. Has Alex Menta learned the lessons of the last year? We are convinced of the yes and mistakes such as the transfers of Finotto and Adorante, who then became popular in Carrara and Castellammare, must no longer be made. It’s not enough to buy the right players, you also need to manage them. This is where Trieste must win the challenge.
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