The Catanzaro bench is destined to find a new occupant soon. God forbid: the new season looms and the fans are thrilled. The club hopes to close the circle by Tuesday, the sporting director Ciro Polito has been in Milan for days for this very reason. The next coach of the Giallorossi will certainly not be Alberto Aquilaniwhich he definitively refused: perhaps he didn’t feel like leading a team that was moving towards a re-foundation, if not a revolution, at the cost of remaining still for a while.
The track leading to remains standing Paolo Bianco, ex Modena who is a great friend of Polito, with whom he shared several experiences as a footballer, but his is not the only name in question. The club’s idea of not distorting some game principles, assimilated by heart by the players in the last two years, is always the point of reference on which the sporting director is working. And it also makes his job more difficult.
A first contact with Eugenio Corini was not followed up because the former coach of Palermo, who won a Serie B championship in Brescia, seems to have shot too high: it cannot yet be completely ruled out, but the more time passes, the more weight the possibility that the Eagles will be entrusted to a surprise profile, never surfaced until now.
Another road to follow could be the one that leads to Fabio Casertafired by Cosenza during the last season, but not without the credentials required to take on the role at “Ceravolo”: Caserta worked with Polito for three years at Juve Stabia, it is a hypothesis that could be explored further. A final path instead leads to a coach who has been kept completely top secret up until now. Certainly, the club must hurry to start planning and reassure an increasingly impatient fan base.
Repeated requests. There are many Giallorossi players who have received and are receiving requests. The most likely starters are Jari Vandeputte and Andrea Sooty: on the Belgian winger Salernitana was inferior, but at the moment Cremonese seems ahead, while the goalkeeper is contested by the usual Cremonese (who had already looked for him in January) and by Palermo, where he played in the past and where he would have heartfelt reasons to return (it is his wife’s city). However, they are not the only ones being courted: after the excellent championship played, they have offers Antonini (in B e in A), Petriccione, Scognamillo (Salernitana and Avellino) e Saunas (Avellino) and almost all the others. Not all of them will leave, but that they have requests is something that must be taken into account.
