The Tuscan club has made the coach’s dismissal official
The surprise decision after seven days
AND Guido Pagliuca the first coach to pay with dismissal this Serie B season. The announcement came today, 14 October, when the Tuscan club announced the decision a few hours before the first weekly training session, in view of Sunday’s match against Venezia. A choice that took many by surprise, considering the team’s not particularly negative moment.
Technical staff eliminated, the company thanks
Together with mister Pagliuca Even his closest collaborators leave the team. In the official statement, the club Tuscan has in fact announced the farewell of the entire technical staff, composed of Nazzareno Tarantino, Simone Angeli and Riccardo Carbone. Words of thanks and esteem for the work done accompany the note, with the Azzurri wishing the coach and his collaborators every luck for their professional future.
Nine points and twelfth place: Pagliuca’s numbers
The budget of the former coach Juventus Stabia talks about nine points won in seven championship days, the result of two victories, three draws and two defeats. A haul that is currently worth twelfth place in the rankings, a position he holds Empoli halfway between the playoff and playout zones. The most curious fact? The dismissal comes right after a success: the 0-1 victory achieved on the difficult pitch of South Tyrol before the break. In fact, in the last three matches, the team had collected five points between draws and victories.
Serie A ambitions: when results aren’t enough
The choice of the Italian management must be read in light of the seasonal objectives. Empoli he doesn’t want to be a supporting player in Serie B: his declared ambition is to immediately return to the top league. And it is precisely this gap between expectations and performance that convinced the company to change course, putting an end to the project started in the summer with the arrival of Pagliuca from the Juventus Stabia.
Dionisi ready to return: it’s a deal with Palermo
The name of the successor is already in the air: Alexei Dionysis is the big favorite to sit on the bench of Castellani. The former coach of Palermo is working in these hours to find the agreement on the contractual termination with the rosanero club, an operation necessary to free himself and sign with Empoli. For the Tuscan coach it would be a return full of emotions: in fact, it was he who led the Azzurri in the 2020/21 season, that of promotion to Serie A. The official announcement of the new coach is expected soon, probably already in the next few hours.
The club made the separation from its coach official through a statement:
“Empoli Football Club announces that it has relieved Guido Pagliuca of his role as First Team coach, and the members of the technical staff Nazzareno Tarantino, Simone Angeli and Riccardo Carbone. Our heartfelt thanks go to Mister Pagliuca and his staff for the work done in recent months; at the same time, Empoli Football Club wishes the coach and his collaborators the best luck for the future, both human and sporting”.
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