The orange coach comments on the club’s choice to retire from the top amateur league
MANZANO. Years and years as a player, between Serie B and Serie C over 400 games, after the youth at Padova, until the end of his career as a footballer in Mestre. Then the first experience as a coach on that bench with the victory of the championship of Excellence and the Serie D played as a protagonist until the advent of Covid. So another good season and the arrival in Manzano. Here in twenty years of career in the world of football Gianpietro Zecchin, 38 years of Campodarsego, had never seen something like that which happened to Manzanese. “Never, not even when the team went bankrupt in Varese, but at least we had finished the championship.”
Mister, the club talked about restarting from Excellence, reprogramming …
“It’s all absurd, it’s clear that there are economic problems behind it.”
Has anyone gotten out of the way or hasn’t anyone put in any more money?
«I don’t know what happened to the president, some rumors are going around. I stick to the facts: from one day to the next we learned that the team would no longer play Serie D. And we only knew it because we asked the president Fabbro to have a confrontation in the locker room ».
When?
“Tuesday evening. When I got to training some players asked me if I knew that Fabbro was no longer the president. I fell out of the clouds, so I called him and asked him to come to the locker room to give explanations ».
He did it?
“Yes and no, half admissions, lack of clarity.”
At that point?
“I simply told my boys and the other members of the staff, about thirty people, with whom we had been at work for twenty-one days now, to prepare for training, the last training session before trying to find a difficult solution on the market “.
And she?
“I am the lesser problem. You know, I played for years between Serie B and C I can stay a few months without salary, but I do not deny that to accept the Manzanese proposal I left the metalworking job in Veneto that I had found for half a day when I coached Mestre for three years. “.
Are all your players professional?
“In practice, yes, you don’t get rich in Serie D, but twenty-five, thirty thousand euros a year, especially if you are a good striker, you take them home”.
Was there any hint?
“No. The company had also built an important team after a first Serie D championship at the top. In twenty days of preparation we had even done a week of retreat in Tarcento. No warning, that’s why the situation is absurd ».
And now?
«The president continues to say that he wants to start again from Excellence, the players will all release themselves, I am going home hoping to soon forget this bad adventure. I will find a bench in the running, but I hope that first my players who do not deserve this situation will be able to settle down. In two weeks they should have started the championship ».