“For me it is a privilege to train Messina, in five minutes I found the agreement, the mission is to save the team that represents a city of great prestige in Italian football”: with these words Sergio Bankers showed up yesterday to the city and the fans. “I wanted to train in a place like this, with such an important football tradition and in such a beautiful stadium – continued the technician -. The Messina admired him as a child, from the time of Franco Scoglio or Totò Schillaci, people who made the history of Italian football, thanks also to the fact that they have grown here. Tradition counts, and for this reason, I have not taken into consideration other calls ».
To accept to work on the Strait, he terminated a contract that would have assured him a salary until June 2026, accepting one for a few months: «We have to save us, everything else will come later and maybe it will be more beautiful and peaceful to reason on the future. But this is not the time – he explained -. I had this opportunity and I was very happy to welcome it. I received the phone call from President Alaimo with the director Rome who was at school by my daughter, a few hours later I was already at the airport, after having closed the past brackets. I am not ashamed to say was that the happiest day of the last 15 years. ».
Important tactical aspects, Banchieri clarifies his ideas and the agreed with the clubbut with clarifications: «First of all, we must believe it, I will mainly work on the guys’s heads to convey to all of them my belief of succeeding in this sporting enterprise. Then, without a square, but the help of all the components will be needed, in addition to the club also the press, the fans, who can be particularly close to the fate of their shirt. On the tactical module, I never liked to tie myself to numbers, I prefer to talk about the characteristics of the individual transferred to the collective. In Novara, where we managed to get to a playoff semifinal a few seasons ago, we applied 4-3-2-1 but because I had men with certain peculiarities. Here we could also have this general reference, starting from the assumption that the three attackers play close to each other and, above all, you have the right attitude in every game ».