Cristian Shpendi dragged the Cesena to promotion to Serie B. The Romagnoli, with 96 points in the standings, have cannibalised their group in C, and will now challenge the Sassuolo in the cadet championship. A total of 21 goals for the Italian-Albanian centre forward, who now can’t wait to compete in Serie B and who in the recent past he has also been linked to Sassuolo.
The player, interviewed by Gazzetta dello Sporthas no doubts about the future and doesn’t want to hear about a transfer: “In my head there are only Cesena and Serie B, the most unpredictable and difficult championship of all. The 21 goals this year were a great achievement but now they become a responsibility, because I know that the fans expect a lot from me”.
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A year ago, there were those who feared that separating her and her twin brother Stiven would be a mistake. But what?
“And instead it went well for both of us, because he also achieved a feat by saving himself with Empoli. I was also curious to understand how I would have fared without him because I had never played alone. Usually we were separated for a maximum of 10 days in a year, this year we saw each other no more than once a month. Stiven played very little in the second half of the season, but he also celebrated”.
Your father became “famous” when he burst onto the Manuzzi pitch at the end of Cesena-Olbia to attack the Sardinian goalkeeper Rinaldi. How much did that ugly episode affect you?
“I was in the locker room and I didn’t see anything. When my teammates came back they told me everything, I didn’t want to believe it. Dad reacted badly, he wasn’t clear-headed and he made a mistake, but he was the first to apologize and realize he had committed It was his mistake. That episode didn’t affect me in the slightest and it certainly won’t make me change my opinion about my dad.”
