“First of all I would like to thank the company and the director for the possibility”. These are the first words of the new Juventus coach Michele Mignani, presented on Thursday morning in the press room of the Orogel Stadium Dino Manuzzi. “Describing yourself is always difficult,” he said. What has always been recognized in me is a personal balance that I think can be considered a gift. Having arrived here in Cesena is a source of pride. These days I am learning about the property which is ambitious and growing rapidly. I am very happy to have accepted the director’s offer.”
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As for the team, “you cannot ignore a formation that has a lot of desire and drive, that wants to win duels. You have to have a defensive and an offensive organization. Every season is different from the other and every season teaches you something. This is a different place and club compared to Bari and Palermo. The prerequisite is to continue on the wave of enthusiasm even if it is a different championship and we will have to find an adaptation to a new category”.
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“We have a young team and we have to start from here – he remarked -. It is premature to talk about what will be and what we will do, we must always consider that we have adversaries ahead of us. We will try to have a brilliant Cesena and – if they can – become masters of the match, but we will meet equipped and organized teams. I think they will all be balanced matches and we will have to look for the best solutions to hurt our opponents. I still have a few days to think about what to say to the players, what is certain is that in football it doesn’t matter what was done until yesterday and we need to think about tomorrow. For some it will be the first year in Serie B, I will have to accompany them on this journey and football does not wait for you. It will be one battle after another to bring home the three points.”
Goals? “The club will respond. For me the biggest objective is to create a competitive group and give the best of ourselves. I believe that modern coaches must have a broad range to read the game. Last year’s form has given its results and if the characteristics of the players allow it, we can start from there. It’s not so much the formation or the numbers but the interpretation. The idea is to start from a three-man defence interesting and this year they participated in the championship victory and I don’t see why we shouldn’t continue on this path.”
As for the city, “every time I have come to Cesena I have always found a stadium with great warmth and passionate and passionate fans. As it has always done, I am sure it will give a great hand to the team”. The staff will be made up of the assistant coach Simone Vergassola, the athletic trainer Giorgio D’Urbano and the technical collaborator Davide Campofranco”. The director of the sports area Fabio artigianato will do the honors: “This is the first conference of the new A Serie B championship awaits us: we’re leaving excited and we want to start working to prepare for a championship that will be very competitive.”
“We are aware of who we are and what we represent – he added -. We have a place and fans who will push us to always do better. We want to consolidate ourselves in this category which has become very competitive in recent years. The coach has followed a growth path starting from the youth sector up to the good results in Bari and Palermo. He is a coach that I have always liked: I see the same values as the team and I like him for his style, for his way of being and relating. I got a good coach and I’m very happy to start working with him. We don’t set ourselves goals, we must sometimes be dreamers and rational faces, aware that we are in a different category. At the moment the market is blocked, it is difficult also because the values have moved upwards. At this moment we are waiting as well as other companies, aware that we have objectives.”
