Udinese, Marino after leaving the coach: «We created Cioffi, I trusted him. But the company goes on “

UDINE. «As a football man with a lot of experience in football, nothing surprises me. Clearly it was not easy to foresee a development of what happened with Cioffi in the last few weeks. We are sorry, on the one hand, but life goes on ». Special guest at Udinese Tonight, the manager of the Juventus technical area, Pierpaolo Marino, returns to the farewell of Mr. Cioffi.

«Udinese continues its great history and programming and, above all, will try to find solutions for a new program that matches the strong team we have. The squad, as I have always said, was complete. The players and the club that set up this staff are to be thanked: 47 points may seem a lot for the recent past but in some respects they may seem too few.

The availability alleged by Cioffi did not correspond to the exposure of a plan for which reconfirmation was possible and we realized that there was something else. At that point it was impossible to start a negotiation when there were other competitors, especially because we took a risk with Cioffi as it was his first experience at Serie A level.

Serie A must be learned in its mechanisms and we took a risk, the ownership did it from a financial point of view and I did it with my position, I didn’t allow myself a minute out of the locker room to give maximum support and investing my time with the coach ».

«We are sorry – continues Marino – because we thought of raising a creature that he then left us, but we have a technical heritage and young people who give us very good hope for the future. I trusted Cioffi, from a human point of view he showed some important skills, but it is not the first time that such a situation has happened to me in football ».

Marino knows football well, which is why the choice of the coach (destination Verona?) Did not blow him away, even if there is regret. “My serenity in the examination stems from the fact that we have a clear conscience, we have invested in a man, we have valued him but if you tell me you want the confirmation of a player or a coach, I always choose the players, a coach is possible reshape. So there is no need to despair. Cioffi we created it in this period.

This year we scored 47 points enhanced by good performances especially in the second part thanks to the attachment to the colors of our players. We have Deulofeu, Molina and many strong players also on the bench so we don’t have to bandage our heads. I think we will have to continue in the wake of coaches who rely on a corporate project with experienced staff linked to the club rather than the coach. Our challenge will be to form figures who can make the most of this strong squad ».

There are many fixed points that give reassurance and it is on these that Marino’s serenity is based. «Thanks to the ownership we don’t need to sell, thanks to our sustainable football model the stadium was created, a fantastic sports center and we have reached 28 consecutive years of Serie A.

We know that sometimes players ask to leave and this can happen even if it jeopardizes the financial future of any club. This year, if we hadn’t had the problem of covid and absurdities like the matches against Atalanta organized at the last second, we would have had 6/7 points more ».

Marino thanks the fans who followed the team in the Salerno “bedlam” and reveals: «Udine is a very coveted square and the phone has been ringing since the news of Cioffi spread. We are looking for a coach who comes for the interest of the project and who is young. We do not set a timetable for choosing, the corporate project is so clear and structured that we will not have to choose following the ideas of a coach, it will be he who will have to align with our project ».