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The celebrations for the promotion to Serie A, Venezia now turns its attention to building the team that will have to seek the long-awaited salvation, a goal that has not been achieved for twenty-five years. The not-so-veiled ambition of American property is to make Venezia a club capable of playing permanently in Serie A.
He will not participate in this dream Paolo Vanoli, who preferred to accept Torino’s offer, leaving a bit of a bad taste in the mouths of the Venetian fans. The desire of Vanoli, who will sit on the bench of a potentially stronger team than Venezia, must be respected. But he would have been extremely fascinating if the former Parma full-back, returning from an amazing two-year period, had closed the circle by securing salvation in the top flight.
The arduous task of obtaining a stay in Serie A, however, will fall to Eusebio Di Francesco, who has relaunched himself this year on the Frosinone bench despite not being able to avoid relegation to the Ciociari’s second division. A choice that seems to have found favor with the market, which hopes to be able to overturn the current forecasts of NetBet and the other most important Italian bookmakers by seizing salvation.
Walter Novellino, the last coach to achieve salvation in Serie A
Di Francesco is a coach who is good at developing young people, who can continue in the tactical direction traced by Vanoli. And we’ll see if he will be the one to revive the glories of Walter Novellino, the last coach capable of securing safety on the Venezia bench. The year was 1998/1999. Venezia, after a thirty-year fast, was once again appearing at the top national championshipfresh from an amazing promotion from the cadets.
The arrival in January of Recoba he was decisive in achieving the goal, which seemed like a chimera a few months after the start of the championship, to the point that Zamparini decided to sack the Perugian coach. At that moment, however, the first happened sliding doors of the season, with the players obtaining Novellino’s confirmation. The season finale was superb. The couple Recoba-Maniero dragged Venezia to a comfortable safety, sealed by the eleventh place finish.
Luciano Spalletti’s unfortunate lagoon parenthesis
However, the following season was not as exciting, which resulted in the lagoon’s relegation to Serie B. Venezia begins the season making use of the services of the current national coach, Luciano Spalletti, which lasts, however, only until the end of October. The farewell, however, lasts only three days, a period in which the team is led by Materazzi.
The technician of Certaldo come back. But the season took an irreparable turn. Spalletti was again relieved of his duties following the crushing defeat suffered against Roma at the Olimpico and the technical leadership was assumed by Oddowho can only accompany Venezia on their return to the cadetteria.
Prandelli and that unfortunate start to the season that cost him his place
The return to Serie B was, fortunately, fleeting. Venezia immediately returned to Serie A thanks to another coach who took over as coach of the Italian national team: Cesare Prandelli. Also confirmed in the top flight, the coach from Orzinuovi was sacked only afterwards five days peppered with as many defeats.
He took his place Sergio Buso, who resigned after just one game. It was Alfredo Magni to lead the team for the remaining part of the season, which ended with the immediate relegation to Serie B. That championship, in fact, marked the end of the era Zampariniwho bought Palermo and left Venezia to their fate.
Paolo Zanetti and the failed “mission impossible”.
In fact, it took twenty years to see Venezia back in Serie A. We are talking about recent history, three seasons ago, when Venezia Paolo Zanetti, certainly not structured for the category, failed to achieve salvation. The Vicenza coach was relieved of his duties a few days before the end: it was Andrea Soncin to ferry the lagoon players towards the sad return to Serie B.
