Two year contract plus option. These are the details of contract that bind Mimmo Toscano to Catania. Yesterday the arrival in the city and the signing, this morning theofficiality and in the afternoon, directly from the “Massimino”, the Press conference of presentation. The Reggio coach – who has already won Serie C in his career with Ternana, Novara, Reggina and Cesena – was accompanied by the President Pelligraby the Deputy Grella and from the new DS Faggiano. They were the architects of a 90-percent coup on the bench, demonstrating the great will and ambition of an ownership that only made mistakes in its choices last season.
“I chose Catania because I consider it a fascinating challenge – Toscano begins – It’s a city that gives a lot, ditto the fans. In these two days here we only talked about Saint Agatha and Catania. We will be the architects of Catania’s destiny and we hope that Sant’Agata will give us a hand. The pressures are nice, they give adrenaline. I have always felt this stadium vibrate, 15 thousand season ticket holders in Serie C are seen in few contexts. When did I decide to come to Catania? After meeting Grella and Faggiano. Catania is beautiful, with the sun and the sea. It looks a lot like Reggio Calabria.”
Come on goals: “getting out of this category is the most difficult thing, but we will try. First of all, however, it is necessary to reduce the gap of points scored last year. Do it with the group, because the victories I achieved in my career were united by the group. Here too there is Catania, there is Catania first, there is the Catania of the ego first”.
The Tuscan man: “describe me? It’s difficult for me, usually others do it. I am a man from the South, sometimes proud, who demands a lot from himself and others. I appear gruff, perhaps I am on the pitch, and I really believe in interpersonal relationships, which then make work easier.” A reporter asks if DeRose And Armoramong those who have won the most with him, are these two examples of the relationship that is created between him and the players? “Yes, but not just them. We share the same way of understanding and conceiving football, in human values and attention to detail. I won three championships with them.”the words of the coach.
Someone from the room asks for gods formshe specifies: “Now the forms are your journalistic things. Let’s say the base is three behind. Then two midfielders, an attacking midfielder and two attackers or two midfielders, two attacking midfielders and a striker.”
The President closes
Between one question and another to the coach, there is space for some interventions from Grella and also for some small talk. Like that of President Pelligra, spoke briefly in dialect. As is known, his Sicilian origins meant that – after many years – the entrepreneur remembered the Sicilian dialect, despite an Italian who chews very little. And so she lets loose a joke that makes the room smile. And he reveals: “Here in Catania we have to learn English”. Then, in English himself, he closes the press conference: “We are working so that the club reaches a very high level.”
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