The team finished in seventh place, in via Alzaia the choice of the technical turning point. The dg Menicucci: there is regret, without Covid perhaps it would have gone differently
PAVIA The streets of Ac Pavia 1911 and of the technician Fabio Nisticò are divided. The official announcement yesterday morning on the social media profiles of the blue company, after the expected confrontation between the coach and the management never actually occurred.
The company note
«With great regret, the general manager Ettore Menicucci communicates the interruption of the technical collaboration relationship with Fabio Nisticò. The decision was taken by mutual agreement between the parties ». reads the official note of the blue club. Pavia with Nisticò management concluded the mini-championship of Excellence in seventh place with a balance sheet of 4 wins, one draw and 5 defeats. «This is a decision taken with great regret because together with Fabio we lived through the difficult period of Covid – added Menicucci, questioned by telephone yesterday – a decision that interrupted a well-started project at the beginning of the season. We are sure that in a normal championship, during a normal season, the team would have fought for the top positions, but unfortunately it went differently ». The blue manager then added: “Anyone who knows me knows the mutual respect between me and Nisticò and the regret of not being able to continue the journey together.” In viale Alzaia they do not want to deepen the reasons for this separation but it is conceivable that an agreement has not been reached on future plans and strategic choices, between proposals and requests (Nisticò had set some conditions for staying and the company too will have set its stakes ) and in the end two different paths were chosen. The note from the blue club goes on to clarify, then, that “the project goes ahead with respect for its fans, the city and the colors it represents, with the aim of building a winning group to achieve the objectives that compete with this team and this one. supporters ».
The return to Rivoli is likely
If radiomercato therefore sees hot the hypothesis of Nisticò’s return to the Rivoli bench, near his residence in Turin, it will be necessary to wait for the announcement of the successor in blue to understand more about the construction of the new squad. Meetings would already have taken place in the past few hours with technicians running to lead Pavia in the 2021-22 season of Excellence. It is clear, however, that Nisticò’s farewell removes some of the players who had come with him from the Piedmont area to share the new Pavia project (although some were also linked to Menicucci) from the blue jersey. For the confirmation or the farewell of the players of the current squad, a lot will depend – obviously – on who will be the new coach of Pavia and on his idea of football. – Enrico Venni