What will be the fate of Giovanni Mari? No permanent racecourse for the Palio, rest assured the Legnano fans who in recent months have experienced a real drama linked to the loss of Giovanni Mari (first for the bareback races and then for the Palio) which created quite a few logistical problems also to the team, which then ended up relegated in the daring playout match against Castellanzese. Legnano today finds itself in the position of having a company on the verge of bankruptcy that does not provide adequate guarantees to the municipality for the city stadium agreement. President Enea Benedetto’s shares are currently seized by the investigating judge of Alessandria due to an investigation started in the Piedmontese city. This factor represents a complex situation for the public administration, with the president of Legnano currently under investigation.
This agreement expires on June 30th. The Municipality of Legnano has not received a precise report from the club since last November. He should have received it on February 29th, but nothing arrived in common. It was a sort of quarterly budget to take the pulse of the lilac company, therefore to have greater guarantees for the institution. Now the closest deadline is July 10th, the date by which Legnano Calcio or the Legnano club that will take its place, will have to have the agreement for the stadium where it will play next season. In any case, regardless of the legal issues, the Mari field urgently needs renovation. The ruts left by the Palio and the months in which sand covered the route caused significant damage such as potholes and water infiltrations. The Municipality could decide to intervene directly to resolve these problems as soon as possible, without having to wait any longer.
Giovanni Mari remains the football field of the Legnano team and will remain so, even in the hypothesis that the team has to start from the third category. We then look to next season and what could happen. In a recent interview, President Benedetto explained that he inherited a debt situation of over 300 thousand euros from the previous president, Emiliano Montanari. Currently, with the shares seized and the impossibility of selling the company, we are heading full speed towards bankruptcy, and less than a coup by the judge who releases everything, allowing the transfer of the company to third parties, considering the requests made by some consortiums.
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