Kamada director and attacking midfielder. Kamada ball hunter, assist server. Kamada man guide. Mental, technical, tactical metamorphosis. It is the symbolic image of the change desired by Tudor and which has yet to be completed. For days Lazio has been professing cautious optimism about Kamada’s permanence, the Japanese player has until May 30th to send a PEC and trigger the three-year renewal at 3 million net. He hasn’t done it so far. The Japanese would expect an increase of 3.5 million net. It’s a figure that Felipe and Zaccagni were also waiting to receive.
Just over a week before the Conference League final with Olympiakos, Vincenzo Italiano was awarded in Coverciano as “best coach of the new generation – football and entertainment”, as part of the national “Inside The Sport 2024” award promoted by the Christian Workers Movement and USSI. For the Fiorentina coach, it’s an opportunity to talk about the present and the future, with farewell to the Viola now seemingly one step away. On the sidelines of the awards ceremony which saw him as the protagonist in Coverciano, Vincenzo Italiano answered some questions about his future, without going too far ahead of next season: “The future of every single Fiorentina member takes second place slowly, now everyone’s concentration is on the final in Athens on May 29th.”
First leg of the Serie B play-off semi-finals. After yesterday’s victory by Venezia at Palermo, this evening the spotlight will be on Ceravolo for the match between Catanzaro and Cremonese. The match will be broadcast live on TV by Sky Sport 202 and DAZN.
Farewell to one of the legends of world football. Karl-Heinz Schnellinger, former defender of the German national team and of Roma and Milan, with whom he won practically everything, has died in Milan at the age of 85. A grim left-back, with a robust physique, nicknamed ‘Volkswagen’ for his continuity of performance, both in terms of quantity and quality, he could play various roles, from that of midfielder to that of stopper or libero.
