Seven years have passed, round and round, since that day when from eleven meters Parma would have reduced the road that was separating them from Serie B.
2557 days ago, the semi-final of the Lega Pro Final Four was played at the “Franchi” in Florence: on one side Parma, who finished second with 70 points in group B at the end of the regular season, on the other Pordenone, third ranked 4 points lower in the same group; both came into play after overcoming the previous obstacles (Piacenza and Lucchese for the Crociati, Giana Erminio and Cosenza for the Ramarri) in the play-offs.
The stakes on 13 June 2017 were very high: the feeling was that one of these two names would be the main candidate to move up to Serie B.
The Emilians, ahead after the quarter of an hour with Scaglia, were joined (by Marchi) ten minutes from the end of the 90 minutes of regulation, being forced to go through the worries of extra time and, then, also of penalty kicks (Click here). There, history would be made. And, as in the most beautiful chapter that could be put down in black and white, the captain would be the one to write an indelible page. Alessandro Lucarelli, the man of rebirth.
The Crusader “flag” has the onerous task of taking the twelfth penalty, the potentially decisive one after Gigi Frattali’s save on the previous Friulian shot entrusted to De Agostini. Once the ball was placed in the right place, the number 6’s chase towards the batting point gradually became more and more intense and impetuous, as did his desire to reach the finish line of the final. Which, after putting the ball behind Tomei, would no longer be a dream.
Ideally, that penalty is still remembered today by all Crusader fans as the goal that opened the doors of Serie B at Parma Calcio 1913, even though there was a final involved (the one against Alessandria, then won 2-0 in regulation time). . 2557 days have passed, but we still get excited as if it were yesterday.
