Among the many contradictory seasons experienced by Messina from 2017 to today, there is one that remains among the most paradoxical. It is the one interrupted by the Pandemia from Covid-19, a few days after the stracittadina returning against the Football Club. A championship marked by questionable contrasts and decisions, with an unstoppable Palermo and Messina at the mercy of the waves, between unhappy technical choices and an increasingly cumbersome and inconsistent corporate guide.
The spark with Michele Cazzarò, chosen by the DS Obedio, never triggered and, after the short interregnum of Pasquale Rando, the president Sciotto focused everything on a name that evoked strong suggestions: Karel Zeman, son of the legendary Zdenek“forbidden” dream of the highest manager. An idyll that lasted little and ended up in the worst way: «It was a couple of months in which I saw the best and worst of the president – says Zeman Jr -,, In the first period he treated me as a son, perhaps even more. He told around, and also in front of the team, that I was the god of football. Then, after a game that he evidently did not like, he also stopped greeting me. At that point I understood that it no longer made sense to remain. To build something you need a relationship and if your main pretends that you do not exist, you cannot go on. I liked to train Messina, but I was forced to leave».
Five years later, Messina finds himself again in Serie D, with an even more fragile situation and the distrust of the environment: “From the outside it is difficult to fully understand – continues Zeman – But I’m really sorry for how things went.
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