Double move for Messina who closed the agreement yesterday morning for the new sports director Giovanni Martello and the coach Pippetto Romano. A tandem already used to working together, as evidenced by the seasons lived in Licata, who therefore immediately can get to work, knowing each other. An important element to try to reduce action times, given that the season is starting totally uphill for the ACR: late on the roadmap as regards the physical preparation and the preparation of a still non -existent staff, but above all wearing the cleaver of the 14 penalty points that could also expand for the non -payment of the monthly monthly monthly.
Martello and Romano had been very close to Messina 1947 in recent weeks which, after attempting the repechage in Serie D, then decided to give up the championship of excellence. And probably, behind this accelerated in the last hours, there is the same mediation that had brought the “couple” closer to Argentino Maximiliano Sosa. So solved two problems in one, after the “black smokes” arrived with Antonio Palermo and Eduardo Imbimbo.
Romano returns to the Riva to the Strait after dressing the Giallorossi jersey from 1997 to 2002, in the early years of the large climb of the FC Messina up to the Olympus of football. It was his desire, now he will have to face the reality he translated means to make a miracle to save the team from the second relegation in a row sportively: «I arrive with so much enthusiasm, I bring with me those moments in which as a footballer we did something important, this year we hope to save the category and then plan the future. It is not an easy situation but we have this opportunity to work in a large square. There are difficulties but we must try to overcome them with intensity and seriousness. We have concluded the details with the management, we must set up a competitive team to overcome the handicap of 14 points and project ourselves in a hard and difficult championship. The right men are needed, take people who recognize belonging to the shirt, the history of Messina. Men should be chosen before players even. To the fans I say to stay close to us with passion and support, I know this audience well, if we reappear we can do well, the results will then do the rest ».
Martello, in the past already combined with the Sciotto ACR, instead presented himself by saying through the official channels of the club: “There is little to speak and a lot to do, the fans and the square are tired of the chatter, we will try to give answers on the field with humility and determination to save the category, a unique and primary objective”.
