At the end of the derby there were long faces at Reggina. Speaking is the owner Antonio Ballarino, who broke the press silence: “I apologize for what happened today and in the past Sundays to our fans. The team I saw today is ridiculous, a heartless team, which in the second half was unable to mount a serious siege. I don’t understand how it could score goals. At the end of the first half I said in the locker rooms if we lose the match many of you have the duty to come to the club to ask for the contract to be terminated. Team built to win the championship and is in a ridiculous position. It’s too simple to go to the coach and tell him that the club no longer has confidence and sack him. It means giving responsibility to the manager and giving a group of important players the opportunity to say that the manager is to blame. I went to the locker room to tell them what path we must take, they must take responsibility, together with the club.”
Ballarino is a river in flood: “If today you don’t put your heart into it you lose and you have lost, as happened to Favara. If at home with Gelbison you are heartless you lose. The club was silent for many reasons, but it tried to protect everyone, including the coach and the players so as not to give the possibility of being able to interpret what is said. I have always put my face to the problems, I am waiting for the team’s decision, because the group is solid and if we come out with a decision, we have to put it into practice. Last year when the team came together we exploded and I hope that from the decisions they make and we will make decisions. I think that starting from what was there last year we tried to improve the group. We expected more from some, some problems have arisen and if I can’t stop the ball it’s not the coach’s fault. Over the next 24 hours we will try to understand what the right decision is, but first we need to listen to all the components and then make the decision.”
Then the passage on the coach: “Coach? Let’s see the training sessions during the week and see what they feel and if he doesn’t succeed on Sunday, there is some problem and we have to understand if it’s technical, athletic or personality or heart. I’ve got the idea, we’re taking 24 hours to make a decision which I still won’t say today but if you come out of the locker room determined it doesn’t mean that yesterday the coach was a champion and today he wasn’t. We know Trocini, his strengths and defects, the team should dictate the pace, impose its strength, we had three players in the middle of running and rhythm and if it didn’t happen there must be a reason.”