Evani’s team had the obligation to win on the Juve Stabia field and hope for the false steps especially of Brescia, Frosinone and at least one between Cittadella and Salernitana. But it didn’t go like this




By our correspondent Gregorio Spigno

13 May – 22:56 – Castellammare di Stabia

First team relegated for the first time in history in Serie C, young people relegated in spring 2, Women relegated to Serie B. Were worse than it was possible? With feeling, the answer is a dry, lapidary, unquestionable “no”. Sampdoria closes the worst season ever by hitting the third relegation to as many professional teams, from the “great” to the boys passing through the women’s team. All down. A total disaster, in some ways absurd, which cursedly complicates the future of society. The last relegation in trivially chronological order is the heaviest, the most indigestible, the most scorching. That of the first team led by Alberico Evani: it was not enough even to bring the protagonists of Sampd’oro back to Blucerchiato – as well as Evani coach also Lombardo Vice and Mancini as a consultant – to try to transmit to a team without a little soul of that “sampdorianity” necessary to turn. Fatal the trip to Castellammare against Juve Stabia who had the task of defending 5th place in the ranking in a playoff perspective.

to hell

The latest women’s Samp, the spring, the first team is penultimate. One two three. All lined up. The annus horribilis of the Blucerchiati thus ends with the toughest relegation in the history of the club, especially considering what were the premises of a season that should have been all different: the arrival of the sports director Accardi who was considered among the best in Italy by the parts of Bogliasco, the large summer purchases revealed then not up to par (the tail-Roman attacking couple), the promotion ambitions. It was all different. Something broke up immediately with the exemption of Andrea Pirlo in August, after the third day of the championship. But instead of giving new life to a team in clear difficulty from the beginning, Pirlo’s dismissal and Sottil’s call sent Sampdoria to an even darker vortex that Leonardo Semplici was unable to reverse between the 17th and 32nd day after the exemption of Sottil himself, and on which Evani and members were also able to do little. For Blucerchiati fans it is the hardest year: Sampdoria relegates to three out of three championships.





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