The Novara football club was officially established. Today (Friday 20 August) at 12.20 in the office of the notary Niccolò Cigliano the deed authorizing the birth of the new company was signed. “I am feeling a great emotion – says Massimo Ferranti, the club owner, as he leaves the studio in the center of Novara -. I feel the closeness of the city and of many people. The target? Get back to Serie C right away “. Before signing the deed, Ferranti was received at the nearby Banco Bpm headquarters to exchange part of the necessary documentation with the FIGC. For the Municipality, present the mayor Alessandro Canelli and the councilor for Sport Marina Chiarelli.
By Tuesday, the new Novara will have to complete the last formalities to guarantee participation in the next Serie D championship in excess.
Meanwhile, the new Novara is also taking shape on the field. He starts from the general manager Giuseppe «Beppe» Di Bari – now it is official – who will also carry out the functions of sporting director. Then it will be the turn of the coach Marco Marchionni, now on the home straight, only the signature is missing. And away, away with the players with Pablo Gonzalez who has accepted the flag role of the new team.
Yesterday, in Milan, in Massimo Venturini’s meeting with Massimo Ferranti and his personal consultant Alessandro Ruggeri, the sports strategies were defined by identifying some of the main players. It starts with the director, who will be in Novara over the weekend. From Bari, he is 51 years old. As a player he spent five seasons in Foggia, with Zeman. Then as a manager, with Foggia himself he was the protagonist of an experience that he intends to repeat in Novara. In the 2013 season with the Rossoneri he lost the playoff final of Serie D but was admitted to the Lega Pro Second Division. In 2017 another promotion in Serie B category that the Apulians had been missing for 19 years. The last assignment at Arezzo, in August 2020, in a company that then fell apart.
With him, a young technician (41 years old) like Marco Marchionni should lead the Italian team on the field. It is highly valued in the environment. Perhaps also because he had an important career as a midfielder in Empoli, Parma, Juventus, Fiorentina Sampdoria, Latina to end his career in Carrara. Novara was also interested in him as a player at one time: his 289 appearances in Serie A with 25 goals and 24 appearances between the senior national team and the Under 21. In Carrara, where he finished playing football, he began to train collaborating with Baldini. Then last season he led Foggia in Serie C taking them to the pla offs.
Two interesting profiles are those of the coach and the technician, who will have to do their utmost to set up, in a short time, a training capable of respecting the projects of the new owner. Who wants to win and immediately return to the pros. Pablo Gonzalez, who signs the contract after the establishment of the new company, will be a pivotal and precious element. He has prepared a list of players willing to stay in blue. Then it is clear that we will have to intervene on the market where there are still many players without a contract. —
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