The Derthona changes via mister Zichella for the bench there is Fossati in pole

TORTONA

Derthona will face the next Serie D championship with a new manager. In fact, after a year and a half, the paths between the Juventus club and Giovanni Zichella, the coach who joined “Fausto Coppi” in March 2021, separate. The divorce decision is consensual and was officially ratified yesterday. In the period spent in Tortona, Zichella nevertheless substantially achieved the objectives: just think of the 2020-21 salvation in the race and the play off placement in the season just ended, with a fifth place on equal merit which however did not allow the leoncelli the dispute of the playoffs, due to the direct clashes in favor of the Bra. But to weigh negatively on the evaluation for the continuation of the relationship was probably the sharp drop in results and performance that the team has suffered in the last month and a half of matches, with a period of nine games without a win that has cost the loss of contact. with the noblest positions in the standings and at the end the qualification for the play-offs at the end of the championship.

The separation was in any case consensual, non-conflictual, as the Juventus director Roberto Canepa underlines: «It is a choice that we as a club and the coach himself shared. We thank the coach for the work done, the first year with the takeover in the race for a difficult salvation to reach, the second in which perhaps something more could have been done, but ended with a good placement anyway. Different choices have been made and now we intend to work towards other objectives with a new technical guide, which we will announce shortly ». Among the eligible candidates for the bench, there was talk of Didu del Chieri and Daidola, formerly of Bra: the first, however, has already married at Vado, while the second would never have been taken into serious consideration by the management. The name of Antonio Soda, of Gozzano, was also mentioned, but the prices of Paolo Fossati are growing, last season at Sestri. –

Stefano Brocchetti