Tuttosport: “So Regina got big in just three months”

“So Regina Gone Big in Just Three Months,” headlines. Tuttosport on newsstands today. Leading with Brescia.

In June, he risked not enrolling in “B”, but the arrival of Saladini changed everything.

Unpredictable Serie B. Who would have thought just three months ago that we would see Regina leading the Serie B (together with Brescia) with 4 wins out of 5? In early June, the future of the amaranth club was seriously questioned by the corporate upheavals of the Gallo management. Then he appeared, the Calabrian entrepreneur Felice Saladini, 37 years old, with a serious and solid project that brought happiness back to the strait. The turning point came on that July day when Saladini personally went to the Balearic Islands, where Pippo Inzaghi, who had become a father a few months earlier, tried to forget the disappointment of Brescia and the spark with Cellino with a long vacation. .

His “yes” to the Regina project was fundamental because he allowed the Calabrians to change plans by immediately targeting A (but apparently never saying so). With Pippo’s consent, the company decided to immediately invest in a competitive team; without him, priority would have been given to organizing the corporate accounts inherited from Gallo’s management. And despite starting clearly behind his rivals, Inzaghi invested in the others, catalyzing the enthusiasm of a square that knows how to make a difference (in the 3-0 match against Palermo on September 3, almost 14,000 spectators gathered at the Granillo ). Pippo immediately realized that there was good potential. He will always say that the project is for A for three years, as is his contract (out of a total of one million).

Meanwhile, his Regina is beautiful. In addition to a bad day in Terni (1-0 defeat in the 2nd round), Regina won 3-1 against Spala in her debut match, made 4 at Sudtirol, 3 at Palermo, and on Saturday they won by a margin in Pisa. in the house of a very inguaiatissima team, but which is still a finalist for the May playoffs. The success was achieved thanks to a beautiful goal by Canotto, born of an unusual and accurate shot by Menes from 50 meters, which allowed the right flank to score. Canotto said after the match: “The whole team should fight for this jersey, it is too important for us. Target? Jeremy put the ball really well, these are moves that we try in training.”

So, another demonstration of how much Inzaghi there is in this 1st place, starting with the enhancement of Menes, who was coached by Pippo at Milan, thanks to which he had the best season of his career (16 goals). With Inzaghi, the Frenchman, who has already scored 2 goals, plays like a false nui, but can play the whole field, as was the case with the goal in Pisa, when he launched the Canotto from his own trocar. A functional solution, if Regina played with a center forward (who still exists, Santander, but returned in form), the team would not be so short and compact, which at the moment is a decisive factor for the record. And on Saturday, Granillo is ready to reassemble for another good test of Regina’s thickness: the tough Cittadella arrives. If they wear them too, it will be hard for the Inzaghi boys not to throw away the mask.