The long wait is almost over: William Avenues has dissolved the last reservations, in 2024/25 season he will lead the way Reggiana in the Serie B championship. After having already been close to the Granata bench in 2022, the coach born in 1974 in Vaprio d’Adda (Milan) it ended up in orbit Empoli after sporting director Gemmi’s move to Italy but in the end the offer presented by Granata sporting director Pizzimenti paid off. Viali should join the Regia with a contract annual with renewal option, just like Nesta previously: the announcement will not arrive today but is expected, barring about-faces which are currently unlikely, in the next few hours.
In about 20 years since professional footballer Viali toured Italy far and wide wearing the shirts of Fiorenzuola, Ravenna, Monza, Ascoli, Lecce, Venice, Perugia, Ancona, Florentine, Treviso And Cremonese collecting over 180 appearances in Serie A, a hundred in Serie B and more than 130 in Serie C. In the role oftrainer after a start to Fiorenzuola and a brief passage in the youth team ParmaViali left his mark on Piacenza (white, red and black side with the Pro Piacenza), South Tyrol, Wedge, Novara And Cesena in Lega Pro while in Serie B he led theAscoli (exemption in November 2023) and in two sections the Cosenza in the 2022/23 and 2023/24 seasons, both of which ended with the salvation of Wolves rossoblù in Serie B. As a coach he won only once against Reggiana in the recent and very painful home defeat against Cosenza in April.
