Since 1992 he has been a collaborator of “Il Messaggero”, since 2009 he has collaborated with the “Gazzetta dello Sport”. He begins by writing about baseball, then gives in to the tentacles of football.
Watching Catanzaro play fills the eyes. It’s not just a matter of players and to understand it it’s enough to go back for a moment to the match against Foggia, to the first leg: there too high-profile elements, almost total control of the opponent and of the match and yet the enjoyment of beautiful football there was. Catanzaro was total football. A team where the thickness of the individual finds expression in the game, in the geometries, in the maneuver. A team that is a group, movements that tell of everyone’s certainties and of the bench’s direction. Catanzaro is strong and knows it, they play with the belief that they are the best, that they have no rivals.
Against an opponent of such lineage and, why not, tradition, the Latina made a good impression, even creating the conditions for some regrets. Particularly effective the action of the midfield with the confirmations of by Livy e Amadioand with Tessiore close to finding the exit from the tunnel that has affected the season so far. The defense would also be worth mentioning were it not for the fact that one of his blunders granted Catanzaro the goal of success. It is the demonstration that the mechanisms, as such, work if all the gears act correctly: on the occasion of the network, Ciccio Esposito came out of the defense to tackle the ball carrier and the rest of the department did not “slide” leaving a hole in front of dumbhole seen from Vandeputte and exploited with relative ease by Biasci. The mechanism was there, but the gears (read defenders) didn’t work on this occasion.
The feeling of a well-disposed team remains, of an honorable performance even if one cannot blame those of the Nerazzurri fans who pointed out that there were no shots on goal. The regret of the Latina in fact arises from a “murderous” back pass by Briganti and from a set piece of board to which only one reagent Fulignati could deny the satisfaction of the network.
The confrontation with Catanzaro was preceded by a few hours by the news of the transfer of the defender Giorgini to Süd Tirol, an operation that is on a par with that of Carletti. Get out that neither Belloni nor even less Gallo, the two incoming elements compensate. The signal to date is that of a forced downsizing that little or nothing takes into account the needs of by Donato. It is not so much the departures as the arrivals that suggest more than one perplexity: the Giorgini operation may well be there, the boy deserved a credit opening for his career, but his farewell is hopefully counterpointed by the arrival of an element capable of guaranteeing the same performance. The Latina market leads us to look to the next few days with apprehension. No one from the club has so far mentioned a downsizing of the objectives, Di Donato continues to chase the play-offs but if this is the hint, he will do well to shelter from unpleasant surprises as soon as possible, at 40 there are still 12 points left .
