Claudio Coldebella and the secrets of Reggio Emilia

The words of Claudio Coldebella

Interviewed by Gazzetta dello Sport, Reggio Emilia General Manager Claudio Coldebella talked about how he built the team in the summer, starting again with only Michele Vitali: "I did not look at passports, but at how each of them could marry with a new culture of play and corporate organization. Coming from a difficult season, this è for Reggio a restart that must look to the future with wise choices. Then it is up to us to lose badly some away games, as happened to us, but today the team fifth in the standings, despite the ups and downs, has its own identity and the Reggio public, mature and competent, recognizes it”.

Coldebella has also made a very strong bet: “His name is Momo Faye, a long Senegalese who is completing his training as an Italian. He is 19 years old, è on his debut in Serie A he is also putting up good numbers, by us he plays as a sixth foreigner. And with him is Sasha Grant, an Italian with an English father, another prospect we have been following for some time. He was at Bayern, chose to return to Reggio where he was a nursery player. Faye and Grant are our "project players", on whom we can set the future by looking at examples from Europe, our mid-term target, like the Germans of Ulm not to mention the Basques of Vitoria".

"Reggio wants to take a similar path, investing in young people. Today we have a guest house with 10 kids who come from outside, in the youth sector we invest 10 percent of our budget and we will continue recruiting at the national level to form the teams of tomorrow. È what the ownership asked me; and I fully share".