SASSARI. In the end, a statistic of technical fouls was not kept by anyone, and basically it doesn’t matter. There is much more in the legacy that Gianmarco Pozzecco leaves after two years, three months and small change at the helm of Dinamo Banco di Sardegna: 840 days (830, if you want to be picky …) lived intensely, like in a blender.
Bomb or not bomb. From the “bomb” dropped on 11 February 2019 by President Stefano Sardara, who pulled him away from the retirement life (words of the Poz) that led to Formentera, up to the now obvious official statement on Monday that officially ended a relationship which had long since cracked. Without further aftermath, luckily for everyone, especially the Dinamo world, because the way things had turned out at a certain point the risk of a divorce accompanied by stamped papers seemed real. Everyone will take their own path, as it should be, but with the engine still hot, the feeling that remains is that of a space-time expansion, as if from that day just over two years ago when he introduced himself saying “you will love the my lucid madness “had actually elapsed a whole five years.
Between chance and intuition. Two years of Pozzecco, try it yourself, Sardara will probably think, who for the whole first year put him under his protective wing, however setting clear stakes on a behavioral level. He knew he had taken home the one of torn shirts and easy expulsions, but even in moments of greater harmony the president has always refused to describe his choice as a gamble. No “all in”, after Enzo Esposito’s sudden farewell. «I had the certainty of his qualities – he repeated recently -, but to make them emerge he would have to face a certain path. For a while he succeeded, and it showed, then he lost control again ».
The accelerator of emotions. Regardless of the idea that everyone can do on the entire Sassari parable of Pozzecco, for a long time we stopped talking about his shirts, his technical faults have faded into the background and the attention has turned all to the extraordinary results obtained by biancoblù and the fantastic relationship built with his boys and with the entire square. The Sassari fans saw beards and winning streaks stretch out of proportion, they counted two brand new trophies – the Fiba Eurocup and the Super Cup – and they enjoyed the spectacle of a great Dinamo among the great ones: from the championship final lost only in race7 later the double “sweep” trimmed in Brindisi and Milan (the latter undertaking will perhaps be evaluated and appreciated better in the years to come), in second place in the league at the time of the Covid stop.
Crunches and collapses. The early closure of the season, the long lockdown and the forced separation from his boys and the warmth of the fans have suddenly and inevitably reversed the trend on an “emotional” level, the coach darkened and it was at that precise moment that the relationship with Sardara began to falter. Last summer, after the dramatic weekend in June with the ballet of the resignation immediately returned, the final word on this short and intense love story was actually already written. Then came many other victories, a few empty passes (the Final Eight), the misfortune of Covid, which compromised the race in Europe, and a season of a very good level, but the toy was now shattered. The suspension for 10 days, seen as necessary by the club and seen as a low blow by the coach, also blew up the last pieces of scotch that held up a vase that had been shattered long ago.
A heavy legacy. At the time of Pozzecco’s arrival in Sassari, Dinamo had three and a half seasons in which they had won 58 league games and had lost 57. With the Trieste coach on the bench, Banco di Sardegna played 125 games, with 85 wins and 40 losses (68%). Did he only win in the regular season, as some say? The figures don’t lie and say something different. Here is the detail: 43-16 in the regular season; 6-3 in the Super Cup; 11-6 in the playoffs; 1-3 in the Italian Cup; 24-12 in Europe. But to speak of Pozzecco’s 840 Sassari days only through numbers would not be right. Because with its “lucid madness”, so much more has been built.
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