After having rejected the offer for the purchase of Livorno by Locatelli, the Amaranth president, Joel Esciua, is ready for the new football season. After the disappointments of the last one, the owner wants to redeem himself and today, Thursday 6 June, he presented the new company organization chart including coach and sporting director.
Before presenting the new season, the president summarizes the one just past: “There were some mistakes made on my part, I don’t deny it, but there were also some satisfactions such as the path of the junior team or the preparation in view of the start of the championship. I also want to remember the presentation in the Fortress or the Christmas dinner together with many children. Finally, the four consecutive victories, especially the one against Seravezza with the arrival at the stadium where we celebrated together with the fans I made important mistakes, largely due to naivety, inexperience and perhaps even excessive passion: we made wrong choices, for which I take all the blame. This year we wanted to win, unfortunately that’s how it went: now we just have to learn from them mistakes. We made a lot of mistakes in communication and this year we will change the approach: we want to have an honest dialogue with a common goal, which is to return to the professional ranks.”
Then it’s time for nominations. Alessandro Doga he will be the technical director and responsible for the youth sector: “He has done an extraordinary job this year both with our young players and when he was called into action in the first team.” Luca Mazzonigoalkeeper coach last season, he is instead the new club manager: “He will be responsible for relations with the city, fans and institutions, dealing with everything that concerns the image of Livorno. Luca is a person of extraordinary professionalism who will always do the good of Livorno”. The new marketing and communications manager will be Maurizio Laudicino, while the sporting director and technician will be respectively Egidio Bicchierai And Paolo Indiani with Niccolò Pascali as deputy: “Indiani and Bicchierai form a winning tandem, they have already worked and won together in the past” Then confirmed the honorary president Enrico Fernandez, Vittorio Mosseri as general director, Massimiliano Casali as general secretary and Renzo Melani as sports consultant.
On the tense relationship with the fans: “We have made mistakes and we will try to have more dialogue with all the components. We need to mend relationships given that the stadium belongs to everyone, starting from the North which is the heart of the fans”.
Finally, Esciua briefly illustrated what the strategies on the market will be: “The idea is obviously not to stand by and watch in this category. The next movements will be important and we have made the first contacts, at the same time we must also evaluate who confirm last season. Attack was completely lacking and this is certainly our priority. We have a staff that has won in recent years and I think this can make the choices easier both bad and bad, the important thing will be to spend well.”
