Pordenone greets Serie B, but the goal is to go back

It was an exciting trip that lasted three years for the neroverdi in the cadeterie. With Frosinone first and last victory, Zammarini the most present, Ciurria the bomber

PORDENONE. The three-year adventure of Pordenone in Serie B ended with the match in Lecce. Although ruined by the last season, in which the club with 18 points broke the negative record of points of the 20-team group, for a company as small as the green-black one was an exhilarating journey.

It had never gone up here, in its over one hundred year history, but thanks to the stubbornness and investments of President Mauro Lovisa, it has made it. And she stayed there from 2019 to 2022.

Here the owners and management want to return. He is already working for the future: he has already hired Domenico Di Carlo as a coach and wants to strengthen the team. Before diving into the Lega Pro, it’s worth retracing what it was.

In the three-year period among the cadets, the team played 114 games, plus two play-offs. The victories obtained were 29: many during the debut season (17 in all) and few in the tournament just ended (3). Curiosity wants that the first and last success in Serie B were won in front of Frosinone at home: 3-0 at Friuli in August 2019, 2-0 at Teghil last April.

And always with the ciociari a mythical triumph came, the one in game-1 of the play-off semifinal of August 2020, signed by the Eurogol of Tremolada (1-0). Among the various statements, the one to the Rizzi with the Cremonese in December 2019 is unforgettable.

Not so much for the score (1-0), but because it brought home in front of 7,000 fans (a record in the three-year period) and because it had allowed Tesser’s group to close the first round in second place. In fact, that moment represented the peak of the Pordenone “title”. From then on, the maintenance at the top of the B, the achievement of the penultimate act of the play-offs and finally the slow and steady decline of the last two tournaments.

Among the black pages, in addition to the knockout with Benevento on 18 April that earned relegation, the 5-0 defeat against Spal last August must necessarily be mentioned. A backhand too heavy, even though ten men suffered for most of the match.

It is no coincidence that it cost Massimo Paci the bench, the trainer who worked for the shortest period of time (two months, July-August 2021) among the five who took turns leading the team among the cadets (the others are Tesser, Domizzi, Rastelli and Tedino).

Lastly, the individual records. Roberto Zammarini was the player who played the most games with the Pordenone shirt in the three years among the cadets: 81. The midfielder will be one of the pillars from which he will restart in Serie C.

The striker was Patrick Ciurria, author of 14 goals. And the sale of him, together with that of Davide Diaw (both ended up at Monza) and that of Alessandro Vogliacco (at Genoa), yielded an income of around 6 million euros in the coffers of the Friulian club.