Football, Baldini new coach of Catania in place of Raffaele

CATANIA – After the morning talks and the confrontation with the Tacopina group that is about to take over the club, Calcio Catania has formalized the position of technical manager of the first team to Francesco Baldini who had already arrived in Torre del Grifo in the evening yesterday to sort out the final details.

Catania in the afternoon released the statement: “Baldini after his beginnings as a coach at the head of the Allievi Nazionali and Primavera formations of Bologna, in 2015 he led Sestri Levante to victory in the Serie D playoffs. In the following seasons, his debut in Lega Pro with Lucchese and another success in the playoffs Serie D, with the Imolese. In 2017/18, the Roma Under 17 team led by Francesco Baldini became Italian Champion and won the Super Cup in the category. Later, the experiences with the Juventus Primavera team, in 2018/19, and with Trapani in B in the first part of the 2019/20 season. “Then here is the comment of the sole administrator, Nico Le Mura:” He is a young, very prepared and determined, we welcome him with great confidence and we are sure that he will be able to take advantage of the precious opportunity that is granted to him in a prestigious square: Catania deserves the best, taking into account the enormous affection and sincere emotional participation of tens of thousands of people”.

Le Mura himself then explained how this choice was agreed with the consortium that should take over as soon as possible: “This is a shared choice with Joe Tacopina, with whom I am constantly in contact to calibrate every intervention on the team and on the company taking into account the preliminary, the appropriate steps in view of the closing and of the necessary future planning “.

Yesterday three new figures worked alongside Baldini, those of the assistant coach Luciano Mularoni, of the athletic trainer Diego Gemignani and of the match analyst Davide Bertaccini. The technical collaborator Gianluca Cristaldi, the goalkeeper coach Armando Pantanelli, the other trainer Giuseppe Colombino, the injured rehabilitation officer, Andrea Mannino and the team manager Emanuele Passanisi have been confirmed.