This morning, at the press room of the Orogel Stadium Dino Manuzzi, the new General Manager of the Cesena FC Corrado From Taranto. Doing the honors, the board member Massimo Augustines who welcomed and opened the conference on behalf of the property: “It is with great pleasure that, on behalf of the entire company, I introduce Corrado From Taranto as the new general manager of Cesena FC. The choice of the new director was desired and shared by the entire company to complete the management team and represents a step forward in our growth path. The director brings with him a wealth of important experience, and his appointment reflects the company’s desire to structure itself adequately for a Serie B championship that will be difficult. On behalf of myself and the entire company, we welcome the director and wish him the best of luck in his job”.
“First of all I want to welcome everyone here. For me today it is a source of pride to be here in Cesena and represent this company.” These are the first words of the general manager From Taranto which then continues: “I enthusiastically accepted the call of the owners and all of its members. I found employees and collaborators with important human and professional qualities and for my part it will be a pleasure to work with them. This year will be important for us because it will be a year of consolidation in a difficult category; I am sure that my professionalism and my skills will make a leap forward for the company that achieved an incredible result last year. I thank the journalists present. For my part there must be mutual respect in relationships; I thank you because even today’s presence is synonymous with great enthusiasm of a city that is responding greatly to a category that represents for Cesena a point of arrival but also of departure. I thank the fans who are signing up en masse for season tickets and are placing their trust in the company, for my part I can’t wait to work with them”.
“I thank Massimo Augustines for the presentation. It is true that there was a courtship; the American ownership wants to tie itself even more to the territory and I will be the hyphen between America and Romagna. The company asked me very simply to grow the structure and give my contribution”.
“I have had contact with the owners and all the members of the club; I have seen the passion and enthusiasm that they put into this project and it was the starting point for accepting. The owners are very present with all the members here in Cesena. We are a newly promoted team and – as director Artico said – a newly promoted team must consolidate itself in a difficult category like Serie B which includes important and prestigious teams. Then if there is something more I am the first to be happy. The club has given a precise budget both to the sports director and to myself. In reference to the sports part, if there are opportunities the director will be given an extra opportunity. We must strengthen the communications and marketing department because the category requires it”.
“I start from the assumption that the job of the sports director is not only to buy and sell players, but also to follow a corporate line and respect a budget. For my part, my job is to know the territory and the people. There are many valid colleagues here and I appreciated them for their availability and passion. We are in a different category than a year ago and we have to raise the level, while maintaining our origins. My role is to coordinate a structure that is already very valid and I will ask for greater commitment from everyone because it is the category that requires it”.
“Knowing the territory means understanding what new opportunities there may be for the club. There are many things that are going well, but some need to be improved, such as the enhancement of the structures, starting for example with the club headquarters. I am satisfied at the end of the season if the entire structure grows with me, in such a way as to have gone through a consolidation process. This means that all the components will have a more specific role to have greater personal growth. In recent days I have received many phone calls and many attestations of how good it is to be in Cesena and in Romagna. I have been lucky enough to have contacts with Marco Valentini who helped me with my integration and testifies to what it means to be from Romagna: the availability, the fact of being united for a goal and being united for the club that wants to consolidate itself in a higher category. You can perceive the passion of the fans who want to participate in the successes of the ownership. Unity is already half the result”.
