Lucca, Pisa does not forget those who backed out
The words of Joseph Corrado
Giuseppe Corrado, president of Pisa, spoke to stopandgoal.com on TvPlay.
“Lucca at Ajax? It fills us with pride, the most important thing is when you get to do these transactions and the even more important thing is being first to Lucca. At the end of the day, here it’s like in the prestige object business, you have to get there first to do the real deals, otherwise these deals can’t get done. It fills us with pride that a company that is a corporate reference for every club in Europe, that has churned out important talents in every role, from Van Basten to Kluivert to Huntelaar to Suarez, came to us. They know how to detect when a player has important skills. Lucca, at this moment, has unique characteristics in Italy and perhaps in Europe, we knew he would be attractive and we were convinced we had made the right move for a domestic market, without imagining the international market. Ajax has been following him all season, they are the club that has had the most accreditation for Pisa’s home games. I believe that the player’s final stage of maturation could not have a better stage, Ajax has a discipline of training, attitude and behavior that I believe should be followed by everyone.”
“Bologna burned? I’m sorry if he may have been hurt, but a little bit everyone should be hurt, if a talent who attends our stage is picked up by a club that is so attentive to talent it means that something to the Italian clubs has been missed. We had given Ajax a few hours to make their offer and they made it. It was the best one for us and there was a chance for him to compare himself with a European stage. A year ago maybe there were other teams who were disappointed when we came on the boy.”
“There is a lot of desire to continue with our project, which is to be able to excel and possibly win while not losing the connotation of virtuous management, inserting young prospects from Italy and abroad and who can create capital. Maybe they will be able to play the top league and maybe with Pisa, the higher category would be much more attractive for young people. We all have great desire to try again, including coach Maran, who knows the category well and maybe can help us overcome certain power outages at crucial moments, it happened to us this year at some junctures, then in other cases we also lacked a bit of good luck.”
“Everyone had moved steps for Lucca, a few teams then perhaps got affected by a turnaround where they did not do as well as the first round. Then there was some physical ailments. But the young man has unique characteristics, in our preseason he still did valuable things showing that he is back to what he was at the beginning of last season. De Laurentiis was the one who was most interested in January, I told him we would talk about it again in June. Then clubs have other contingent needs, I don’t go into the situation of other teams, I’m just saying that Italian teams have to learn to do soccer by creating value. Because maybe you win the cup, but then you destroy the budgets, there has to be continuity with a virtuous club, then one year you win and one year you lose, but you create the conditions without, however, the worries about registration, liquidity ratio etc… Football is a business and businesses that drain money instead of generating it sooner or later have problems,” he concluded.
