It is the day of the return to the “Celeste” for Messina, but also that of the first challenge to face with the heavy and unfair penalty (20 points) on the back, which sent the club to the bottom of the table. An absurdity after what the Peloritana square has had to suffer in recent years, due to failed managements which still absurdly weigh on the relaunch attempts, now branded Racing Group.
But football doesn’t stop and while waiting for legal developments, today we return to the pitch against Mazzarrone. Mister Alfio Torrisi did not speak the day before, shocked by what had happened. And then it was the sporting director Maurizio Pellegrino who “took the stage”, who thanks to his experience was balanced but at the same time incisive and calibrated in sending signals and messages in a delicate moment like the current one.
New goal
To aim for Serie D, will the mission move to the Cup? In this context, yes, it becomes the most attainable objective, but nothing must be given up. And it is in this context that Pellegrino expresses a strong and clear thought, aimed at the entire “Messina universe”: «We must all necessarily be on the same side. The team and president Justin Davis need to feel the closeness of the city. I like to think that in a few months this penalty could be reviewed and that, at that point, we could look back and realize how important it would have been to have remained united. We need unity at this moment, because what has been done to us is very serious. United out of pride, even pretending to tolerate each other. Too many divisions. We risk that this property may get tired.”
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