Three names for after De Raffaele at Cantù

Walter De Raffaele’s farewell to Acqua S.Bernardo Cantù was not a bolt out of the blue. The coach from Livorno, at the end of the game with Treviso (and when salvation had been won) had been rather vague about his stay after the finish line had been crossed.

Three names for the succession have already begun to circulate. They are those of Manuchar Markoishvili, former white-blue flag as a player, who is at the helm of Monaco, Gianmarco Pozzecco, former coach of the national team now in Turkey at Galatasaray, and Frank Vitucci.

The favorite at the moment seems to be the Venetian, who has not yet dissolved his reservations about continuing his adventure in Scafati after having brought the Campania team back to the top division.

Walter De Raffaele’s farewell to the Brianza club came at the end of an experience that began last Jan. 20, as a replacement for Nicola Brienza, who was exonerated after the home loss to Germani Brescia, the ninth consecutive in a negative streak that ended in the very first game with WDR on the bench, on Jan. 25 away at Reggio Emilia (79-78 for the Biancoblù).

The Brianza lineup, with De Raffaele on the bench, scored 12 of the 18 points it put up in the entire championship: an important trend to hit salvation without depending on other results on the last day, which Cantù did not play as it was resting.