Rumignani dead: stories of provincial coaches. Papadopulo, Catuzzi, Sonzogni and…

Masters with the red and blue pen, artisans who made excellence a habit, wise navigators of rough seas of B and C, precarious because that’s how the world turns, provincial magicians as per the slogan of that ancient time between the 80s and 90s, above all men who knew about football, a football hastily defined as “bread and salami” and which instead held in its principles the spark of a future that was about to arrive and that other colleagues – more famous, more celebrated, more skilled at befriending the caress of fate – they would take on the task of lighting. Coaches like Giorgio Rumignani, a Friulian from Gemona, with a thirty-year career (1974-2004) punctuated by twenty-four cities, from South to North, from Palermo to Piacenza, from Andria to Ravenna, from Teramo to Francavilla, from Barletta to Arezzo, Foggia and Pescara, in the trace of a sentimental atlas that was his but also that of many others. Like for example Antonio Pasinato from Bolzano, now ninety years old, who few people remember. In the 1980s he won C2 with Casertana, achieved double promotion with Brescia from C1 to A, but more than anything else he planted the flag for Campobasso in professional football, guiding them to the historic promotion to Serie B.