After the worst start of the season ever, the two leaders Rao and Antenucci are raising the blue -white team
In Ferrara past and present they mix. At the Spal house there is an 18 -year -old boy who grinds record and a 40 boy who does not feel satisfied yet, despite an already written future. Emanuele Rao and Mirco Antenucci are the two blue -white leaders who with 14 goals in two are raising the team from the ashes after a horror season start. For salvation, Spal clings to a missed hairdresser and a future manager.
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At the moment Spal is sixteenth with 24 points in group B of Serie C. To make the idea of what season the Estense team is experiencing, just go back a couple of months. With 11 points in the first 14 games, Spal recorded one of the worst we love: it hadn’t happened for 41 years (1984-85 season). From the external victory against Legnago 3-0 in mid-November things have changed, with only two defeats in the following eight. The merit? Of the group, undoubtedly, but of two players in particular, Rao and Antenucci. The first, product of the nursery, is at 5 goals and 2 assists in 24 games and has scored in the last against Sestri Levante, it was worth the fifth consecutive useful result. The second – hero of the return to Serie A of the biancazzurri in 2017 after 49 years since the last time – is showing that the age has nothing to do with the performances on the pitch: the 9 goals (four in the last four) in 24 games The SPAL season are restoring.
rao
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Born in 2006, Rao is a left wing that loves to return to the right and conclude. He grew up with the dream of becoming a hairdresser, he found himself being a footballer and now his exuberance is lifeblood to keep the category keep the category. Product of the nursery of the biancazzurri, two years ago Rao became the youngest scorer of the whole Serie C championship and the second deiry marker in the history of the club at 17 years old, six months and 13 days, behind the unbeateable and historical Mario Romans, gunboat of the 1920s (16 years, 11 months and 28 days). It is inspired by Leao and Lookman and every day fight against type 1 diabetes, a pathology that alters the immune system. Rao goes on his way, scoring with a smile, a bit like Rafa. With diabetes he has lived us since he is 9 years old: at the time of Chievo his parents, both nurses, seeing him tremble and go to the bathroom three times, took him to the hospital to make investigations. The results indicated a very high blood sugar and, consequently, confirmed diabetes. Rao suffered in the hospital, but he returned stronger than before. When he scores, Spal never loses. If this is not a sign …
antenucci
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Presenting it would be a repetition. For him the word Ferrara is synonymous with a family. There he built a career between the historic promotion in Serie A and the maintenance of the same as a goal. Mirco Antenucci at the age of 40, after a traveling career, does not feel satisfied yet. It comes from four goals in the last four championships that have allowed Spal to leave the red zone and look out the playouts with 24 points. He marks the head, robbery, right and accident: inside the provincial bomber manual (and not only) you can find his name. In an interview with La Gazzetta dello Sport, the 1986 class clarified its objectives, present and future: “Except the Spal and then I stop, I will be the manager, I also took the license”. Despite the horror start of the season and the dispute of the fans, the captain of the Spal has never found Alibi: “We have changed a lot, players, staff, coach. This certainly engraved. Then at the beginning of the year there were the three penalty points that did not help. When you see that less in front of the number of points and you do not results it becomes difficult to acquire confidence. ” Mirco never lost that, on the contrary, he found it with the goals and, consequently, with the results. At 40 he still has a lot of passion, “the motivation and the desire make the difference”, he concluded to the rosea. The playoffs distance four points, the ranking is short. With Antenucci everything is possible. Ferrara dreams, as she is used to.
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