Catania, provisional stop exercise: team excluded from Serie C

Game over. Calcio Catania will not play the last four games of the regular season. The southern Serie C championship remains incomplete after the statement of the president of the Etnean court, dr. Francesco Mannino, issued after lunch: “Since this is a matter of particular social interest, we inform you that today the Court of Catania – bankruptcy section – has ordered the provisional termination of the characteristic branch of the football company of Calcio Catania spa”.

nothing to do

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After the postponement of the day before, during a very long and enormously tense night, the director of the rossazzurra sports area, Maurizio Pellegrino had tried, with his collaborators, to raise a sum equal to 35 thousand euros to allow the curators to have the necessary amount to play the match against Latina, scheduled for tomorrow. A race that was skipped despite the fact that at the last moment some entrepreneurs had guaranteed non-repayable sums, drawing from their own assets. Dismayed in the headquarters of Torre del Grifo, where the coach Baldini, the team, the other managers were waiting for signals from the Court from 9 this morning.

The curtain falls

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After the news of the intervention of some local entrepreneurs a crack had opened. Instead, the termination of the provisional exercise (which was valid until the 19th of this month) brings down the curtain on a grotesque situation. Since 2015, the moment of the scandal “The trains of the goal” with the relegation of Catania to C office, there has been no redemption. Quite the contrary: Catania has not recovered from Serie C. Two years ago Sigi had saved the sporting title, but without relaunching. The bankruptcy occurred on December 22 last year, with three competitive auctions for the assignment of the sports title. Then the arrival of Mancini who acted with payments in installments and out of the maximum time with respect to the deadlines dictated by the Court. The curtain falls inexorably between the anger of the fans and the tears of the players who wanted to end the season on the pitch. A bitter ending. Unworthy for a city that for 75 years has contributed to writing the history of Italian football.