Valerio Antonini he entered the world of football starting from the bottom: in a year and something brought back the Trapani in Serie C and also won the Serie D Italian Cup. The president of the Sicilian club is great Lazio fan. To the microphones of Radiosei he has not ruled out the possibility of taking over Lazio, presenting an offer to Claudio Lotitonumber one of the Biancoceleste club for 20 years who was recently contested by the fans in the square: “Marriages are always done in twos and now there is an important president who has no intention of selling even in the face of high figures. We must understand that if Lazio is a club that today is worth 500/600 million euros it is also for thanks to Lotito who alternated positive and negative years, but who still kept Lazio at a very high level, but he didn’t make the final leap in quality that people expect and in my opinion he lacked in communication, in the relationship with the people. This cold relationship with the fans is a bit the opposite of my way of acting. Let’s put it this way, the economic evaluation of 500/600 million euros that I gave to Lazio was bad. I studied, I studied assets and balance sheets.”
Antonini and Lazio, the timing for the offer to Lotito
“I don’t feel like I can be the president of Lazio today because I have no experience and as a Lazio fan I would feel so responsible that I would be afraid of making a mistake. Lotito knows the rules, the League, the Federation, the institutions by heart. From a management point of view, as a manager he is absolutely a phenomenon. I need to grow. I am learning many things that people cannot know about the backstage and how a football club works. It is clear that in a few years, even in the face of growth in the category, the interest that remains will always be the same and can be fueled by a sense of responsibility and knowledge that will lead me to make an offer”.
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