Menegazzi in Colleretto is immediately the protagonist Sunday challenges the past

AOSTA

The winter transfer market session which lasted until last Thursday, 10 January, saw some interesting hits, such as the exchange between Vischese (First category) and Banchette Ivrea (Promotion) with midfielder Alberto Enrico who switched to the Ivrea and reverse path instead another midfielder, Luca Guarnero, or the return of Andrea Menegazzi to Canavese did. The director in front of the defense was taken from Colleretto: he is 36 years old, he is from Aosta and a marketing agent by profession. Menegazzi was the match winner last Sunday in the derby with Mappanese, thanks to a splendid free kick at the end of regulation time. The history of Menegazzi has distant roots: a few years ago at Quincitava and in the then Bollengo Albiano, Menegazzi this summer embarked on a career as a sporting director, helping to found Aosta calcio 1911, a team that plays in the Third category, then However, in November complications arose and he resigned, deciding to put aside his managerial career for the moment and put the shoes back on, as he explains: “My friend Francesco Sterrantino, attacker of the pedanei, took me to Colleretto and I immediately accepted the challenge because he is convinced by the company’s plan, which wants to compete in a top championship – says Menegazzi -. Last Sunday in Mappano the official debut, seasoned immediately by the winning goal, I could not aspire better than that ».

Sunday, the first at home in front of his new fans, will be against River Plaine, a team born this summer from the merger between Fenusma and Quart, the latter being Menegazzi’s first team at the age of four: “He will play against my past, It all started with the Quart purple shirt 32 years ago – explains Menegazzi – and for me it will be a very special match, I still have my first football player card. We face a Aosta Valley on the first day of return and the goal will be to win to continue the journey in the championship well. It will be a second round to be lived intensely match after match. The River will come to us and will play with the knife between his teeth to climb the slope and because he will have three other Valle d’Aosta in front of him: Barbiero, Sterrantino and Sacchet, with the latter that I took for the Third category and I find him a teammate “. –