Castellamonte, fairytale final: win the cup

Clear success against the Top Five after passing the semifinal on penalties. Now the qualification for the national phase of the tricolor competition

CASTELLAMONTE

The Castellamonte five-a-side football in front of its audience imposes itself in the final of the regional phase of the Italian Cup and accesses the national scoreboard of the event reserved for the C1 series formations.

On Sunday in the final he overtook the current league leaders, the Turin Top Five, by 6-3. The final is decided in the first minutes of the second half, the first portion of the game ended at 2-2. The Canavese players have the advantage twice, always with Pereira, first Mortara and then Patti for the Top Five. But within the first five minutes of the second half, Pierluigi Gotta’s quintet scores three goals that put the match down. Pereira is still the protagonist who scores all three goals (therefore five of his goals in the final) for the momentary 5-2. The Top Five tries to recover with the moving goalkeeper but suffers the sixth score on a ball intercepted thanks to Alemao. Only twenty seconds from the end after Meraviglia had saved everything, Patti made the third goal then his team.

Following the awards ceremony, present for the regional federation the president Christian Mossino his deputy Mauro Foschia, for the city of Castellamonte the mayor Pasquale Mazza and the councilor for sport Claudio Bethaz.

The success of the bianconeri of the president Cinzia Sicilia repeats that of the final four of 2016 when always in Castellamonte they had overcome the Futsal Savigliano for 6-2.

For Castellamonte the semifinal on Saturday against Taurus was much more complicated, which was decided only on penalties after regular time ended at 6-6 and extra time at 7-7. From the spot three goals for Castellamonte against only one of the opponents. In the regular match the Canavese goals were scored by La Terra Piodomani (hat-trick), Pezzetti (brace), Pereira and Gallo’s own goal. In the other semifinal which was won by the Top Five for 5-4 there were two serious game accidents for two Sermig players, for Luca Nuzzolese fracture of tibia and fibula, already operated in the evening and Massimo Polimeni, with suspected injury to the Achilles tendon. These are the formations of the final; Castelalmonte: Meraviglia, Cardamone, Pereira, Alemao, Kanhani, La Terra Poidomani, Berardelli, Fancello, Celeste, Raviglione, Pezzetti, Barioli. Coach: Pierluigi Gotta. Top Five: Cagliani, Aquadro, Destino, German, Cerone, Corporal, Patti, Mortara, Corrieri, Di Santo, Mantari, Vaccaro. Coach: Allessandro Lianti. Before the final of the Coppa Italia, the final of the tournament for chicks was also held. Vallorco’s victory for 2-1 over Volpiano. –