Pisa, 15 June 2022 – The Nerazzurri tycoon Alexander Knaster has decided to sack the coach Luca D’Angelo, architect of a promotion to Serie B, of unrepeatable records and a close to Serie A, as well as the third longest-lived coach ever on the Pisa bench. Despite still a one-year contract, expiring on June 2023the Russian-American tycoon has preferred to change. A decision that began to mature immediately after the final against Monza.
THE BACKSCENE – L’last contact between the club and D’Angelo in fact it dated back to 29 May, then the coach remained in his Pescara without receiving any calls. Already when the president Giuseppe Corrado had confirmed it on TV on 50 Canale, D’Angelo’s fate was actually in doubt and the technician continued not to be contacted, even though he expressed the will to continue even with a single year of contract, without asking. renewals. Yet yesterday, at 12.30, on the sidelines of an event at the Municipality of Pisa, the president of the Nerazzurri association had answered a direct question regarding the manager question. “There is no news“, declared Corrado. Less than four hours later the exemption arrived. With D’Angelo, in fact, all the coaching staff was also exempted, who will remain under contract until June 2023, unless the coach finds a other team.
NEXT COACH – And now who will be the next Nerazzurri coach? In fact, the hunt for the new coach has already started. Yesterday evening Aurelio Andreazzoli and Leonardo Semplici were excluded from the equation, not considered by the owners to be suitable for the job. The prices of Daniele DeRossi as the next Nerazzurri coach, but last night the former Roma player was at Borussia Park in Monchengladbach, on Roberto Mancini’s staff for Germany-Italy and, to join the Nerazzurri, he would first have to free himself from the federal contract. The casting for the bench will continue today. From what emerges Filippo Inzaghi is still in the running, but is calling for a competitive team as the odds for Eugenio Corini, who received a first exploratory phone call and freed himself from the contract with Brescia, leaping at the head of the race to the bench. A matter of hours, before the knot for the new technician is also untied.
GREETINGS – The technician has greeted after four years with a brief but heartfelt statement: “I want to thank Dr. Knaster, the president Giuseppe Corrado, the general manager Giovanni Corrado, the sporting directors Roberto Gemmi and Claudio Chiellini, the operations director Daniele Freggia, the team manager Ivan Sarra – declares the technician who does not want to forget any of his traveling companions -. In addition, all the secretariat, the medical staff, the warehouse workers, the administration. I hug all the players who accompanied me on the journey. This company, back in 2018, gave me a wonderful opportunity “. The technician then lets himself go to an even more personal greeting, retracing with his mind the many adventures spent together: «They have been four intense, exciting, painful years, but all unforgettable. I greet the city of Pisa and its fans – concludes D’Angelo -, you have adopted me as a man and as a professional. The roar of the Arena is within me ». In the evening, the press release from Pisa arrived, in which the club thanked the coach for his work: “They have been four years of an extraordinary and fruitful human and professional relationship that will remain forever in the sporting history of our club – declares the Pisa -. Despite the decision made, Luca will always remain part of our big family ».
Michele Bufalino
