“I bring with me many human relationships. The fans showed a great sense of responsibility “
With a big hug to the PalaMoncada audiencecoach Damiano Pilot greets Agrigento. He will go to A1 as assistant coach: “I received an offer, it’s an opportunity that I have to seize quickly,” said Pilot. At the end of the match we received a collective hug from all those people who were at PalaMoncada. We put all the dignity we could into it and the public understood it. The pitch decreed this relegation but the fans demonstrated a great sense of responsibility which I will carry with me. A huge value which demonstrates that there is a way and way to metabolize a championship.”
And the feelings that coach Pilot will take away from Agrigento are different: “I bring many things with me, paradoxically also certainties, when I arrived here I changed some things technically but I didn’t change. I was here at two different moments of the season, when the difficulties began and when they had overwhelmed us. Had we seen the faces I saw at the climax of the season, things would have been different. I bring many human relationships to martyr from Marco Morganti.”
What Pilot wishes for Fortitudo “It’s the best. In times of difficulty – he says – we have all been there. These championships are changing, today’s A2, like B, is not the same as a few years ago, they are elite championships, whose costs are increasing and given the logistical position of Sicily it is normal that it will impact on the organization of a season. We need to rely on individual characteristics.”
A bitter ending but with head held high, “a difficult season – comments Pilot’s deputy. Marco Morganti-. I learned a lot from Damiano, from a technical point of view, he plays modern basketball which will become part of my background. It was exciting to see the fans at home suffer because they believed in it until the end, I had the opportunity to establish relationships even just via social media with many of them. The strength of Fortitudo is the public.”
The final embrace, despite the relegation, is the human aspect that leaves something important.
