Lunch with sporting director Fabio ARC, visit to the Manuzzi stadium and then to the Villa Silvia sports centre. Cesena’s new coach, Michele Mignani, will be in town today. Today the Cavalluccio club will also give official communication. The former Bari and Palermo player will join the Juventus club for two seasons. There is no option in the contract for a third season in the event of promotion to Serie A, as was rumored yesterday. This closes a circle opened a couple of weeks ago, Mignani had in fact been contacted by Fabio ARC when Roberto D’Aversa, the first choice at the time, ended up in Venezia’s sights. The former Lecce and Parma coach then returned to flirt with Cesena, considering that all the opportunities in the top flight were now over. The rest is recent and now known history, D’Aversa chose Empoli. Cesena immediately turned to Michele Mignani, highly motivated and ready to start again from here. The coach arrives in Romagna with the desire to repeat the good things done, especially in Modena and Bari, with promotions achieved and others missed by a whisker, while as regards his favorite game formation, the one most used is the 4- 3-1-2, which can transform into a 4-3-3 if necessary depending on the opponent and the characteristics of your players. Attacking midfielder behind two strikers and strictly four-man defense although for a short period in Siena in the 2018-2019 season he used the three-man formation, a formation which he could propose again on the banks of the Savio, probably so as not to upset the well-established automatisms too much in the Tuscan two-year period. Today, with sporting director Fabio , the coach will discuss precisely this. The list of grafts to face the Serie B championship would already be ready. Speaking of the market, as expected, from Catania, it seems that the call has also arrived, obviously suggested by Mimmo Toscano, for Francesco De Rose. In the next few days we will know if this can have a sequel. Luigi Silvestri and Simone Corazza could also leave for Sicily. Returning to Mignani, on his staff he will have Simone Vergassola as his deputy who was teammate with the former Bari player in Siena and second to him again in Siena, then again Modena, Bari and Palermo. The athletic trainer will be Giorgio D’Urbano and they will be joined by the former Juventus midfielder Davide Campofranco who yesterday terminated his contract which tied him to Bari for another season. Antonello De Giorgi will remain as goalkeeping trainer. Mignani should stay in Cesena for a couple of days and then return for the meeting.
Finally, the Lega Serie B assembly set the date for compiling the calendar: Wednesday 10 July in La Spezia.
Andrea Baraghini
