Tuttosport – Favola Cittadella. Marchetti: “A mixture of young and experienced people has been created that can become outstanding”…

Cittadella is great again. The project has never changed. Family football on a human scale, with little-known players that need to be started or restarted. Players who are hungry want to get there and erase the stereotypes of those who don’t consider them worthy. However, in the last two seasons, not everything went smoothly, and “Grenade” had to “settle” for salvation, but after five consecutive appearances in the playoffs and two losses in the finals, not without regrets, the taste got used to it well. Fourth in the standings, two points adrift of the Serie A line, Gorini’s side have been steadily climbing upwards over the past two-and-a-half months. After the most difficult moment, with two defeats in a row (Pisa and Cremonese) at the end of October, a run began in which Vita and his teammates scored 23 points in 9 games, a run that started with five wins in a row.

Sporting director Stefano Marchetti, always the deus ex machina of this small, exemplary reality, analyzes this moment: “I see how the team grows game by game. This summer there were a lot of new people at the retreat; we decided to make a revolution because we considered the cycle to be completed. We have guys in our squad who have never been in the B category, but they have quality and they understand that they can compete with anyone; players who don’t even know where to go. In addition to good football players, Cittadella must have children who can think in a certain way, guided by human values.” Every year, Marchetti, the man who said no to De Laurentiis in the summer when he learned that he could not decide on a name as a coach (Garcia had already signed a contract), fishes out gems from the lower categories: “There are few good players everywhere, and we are constantly learning. We have created a mixture of young people and experts who can become outstanding.”