All the emotions experienced in a vibrant year that led to direct promotion to Serie B. Always with the support of the Popolo del Partenio
The moments, the protagonists, the crucial joints and the outdated difficulties of an intense season. The return of Avellino to Serie B, where it was missing since 2017/18, we retraced it in ten snapshots representing the main coordinates of a journey concluded in triumph.
patience…
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The start was traumatic. Returning from the elimination (in some ways also unfortunate) in the semifinal playoff with Vicenza, Michele Pazienza had the opportunity to start this season from the beginning but without positive results. No victory and only three draws in the first five days of the championship, with the internal defeat of September 21 with Latina to overflow the vase. In a vintage for him overall to forget, patience then went up to the race on the bench of Benevento collecting the second exemption.
revolution
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The bang was thunderous. The D’Agostino family – who never pulled back on investments, since he took the club in the spring of 2020 – at that point chose to change not only on the bench, but also the summit of the sports direction by renouncing the experience of Giorgio Perinetti. Team entrusted to Raffaele Biancolino, coach of spring, who was to be only a ferryman towards a more tested choice (several names at stake, from clotet to the dream of a card return). Internal solution also behind the desk, with the promotion from the youth sector of Mario Aiello, in C former DS of Cavese and Paganese. It seemed a downsizing, instead …
than Biancolino
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After the 0-0 with Turris on his debut, Biancolino slipped six wins in a row and the first of the series (2-1 at home with Foggia) convinced the club to consider him in all respects the new coach. At the first experience among the greats, the “python”-they all call him like this-brought behind the game system with which he won the spring 3 championship (4-3-1-2) but above all the charisma and credibility of a winning and rooted flag in the club: Neapolitan adopted by Avellino, at the center of the white-green attack, in fact he won four promotions in B (2003, 2005 with his goal in the final at Naples, 2007). This is the fifth, the first in another guise. The man of fate.
Avellino, what a market
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In the mid-season, in order not to leave anything of intended, the property decided to make All-in and take the strongest center forward of the C: so Facundo led by Trapani arrived, in a maxi operation also including the Liotti, Mulè and Toscano cards (the latter two were already in Sicily, initially on loan). The move to get rid of the competition has repaid, beyond the four goals scored by the Argentine, because two so there in front (Lescano and Patierno, in fact) the others do not have them and return very useful in a team that produced within the area 55 goals out of 57. Curiosity: Patierno and Lescano have never managed to mark both in the same game. Cagnano, Panico and Palumbo also arrived in January, the latter the quality investment for the future.
The ranking laughs
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In mid -March, the wind began to blow even stronger in the sails of the Avellino: the exclusion of Turris reduced from three to one the points of delay from Cerignola first in the standings, thus making the breath feel the breath to Raffaele’s team (protagonist, in any case, of an excellent season beyond expectations). It was the assumption of overtaking, which then took place in the postponement of March 24 with the power. The ranking says that the promotion would have come anyway, but it is undeniable to underline how an external factor has removed a little security from those who commanded and trust those who chased.
Super Patierno
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A name by role, without wrongly to make those who are not named, in a deep rose and with a high level pair in each box. Iannarilli in goal has proved to be the well -known security since Terni’s time. In defense, special mention for Cagnano: arrived in January from Sudtirol as an alternative to frascatore, it surpassed it to the left becoming an exterior of total thrust that guaranteed change of pace at the crucial moment. In the middle of the field, Luca Palmiero regenerated returning the play of struggle and government of the golden years of Cosenza. Forward, the definitive consecration of Cosimo Patierno: with 36 goals in two seasons, he became (well detached, but the time is from his) the third marker of the club behind Castaldo (70) and Biancolino (56).
Key games
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Two above all: the direct clash of return to Cerignola, in January, when the goal of the ex of De Cristofaro for 1-1 at 94 was held back the team of Raffaele defending equality in the direct clashes (which has become advantage, with the difference in networks). And then another game with the salt on the tail, Avellino-Crotone of February 16 (2-1): the equal of Vinicius at 88 ‘could generate an important braking, then Patierno headed by the 92nd minute thought about it. Call it Avellino area, brought decisive points.
Behind the scenes
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As a debutant coach in C – who could not reasonably do everything alone – Biancolino was able to surround himself with the right men. With intelligence and strategic vision, in the construction of a staff who has worked on driving headlights and with a real team dynamics. From the right arm Vincenzo Riccio – for the coach a friend and companion of a thousand battles in green and white, also as a player – to the goalkeeper coach Pasquale Visconti. Without forgetting the other preparators and technical collaborators, protagonists of a management with a clear leader, but still shared by those who do not appear in the photos: Dario Rossi, Fabio Esposito, Luigi Gennarelli, Ciro Santangelo, Massimo Foria.
superstitious
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Needless to deny it, when the game becomes hard in football, the help of the Goddess Fortuna is also asked. That each invokes in his own way, with discretion but without making it a secret. Woe to touch the bottle of water resting on the spike of the technical area (and a couple of opponents, probably aware of the meaning, tried in the season to hit it to move it). But there is more: from the trip to Altamura in mid -December, the sole director Giovanni D’Agostino and the DS Aiello were regularly spotted in the pre -match while two chestnuts launched in the doors (symbol of protection and prosperity, in popular belief). Since then, eleven wins and two draws with a single defeat, that of Foggia. Where, it is told in a low voice, it seems there were no chestnuts available …
Partenio effect
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Demanding but enthralling. That of the Partenio-Lombardi is public with the fine palate that is not satisfied, sometimes murmurs, but gives continuous stimuli. Nine consecutive internal victories, the one with Crotone in mid -February reappeared the environment and the last four in the house recorded the sold out, touching ten thousand altitude. In the absence of public order limitations, the promotion match would have become a real white -green exodus.
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