Stefano Sardara goes on the counterattack and has something for everyone: the debate gets heated
Friday morning’s long-awaited press conference turned out to be an opportunity for Stefano Sardara to get more than one stone off his shoe. The patron of Dinamo Sassari did not hide in front of reporters and, starting with the latest chapter, that of relegation, explained his point of view without sparing vitriolic words.
“The relegation did not come in May 2026 but a year earlier,” Sardara explained. “We made a mistake, that of relying on people who abandoned us. I take all responsibility, let’s lick our wounds and start again. There is talk of ropes, but what rumors are they? Where are these people? I had the possibility six months ago to sell to a fund as happened with Rome, but I said no.”
“In fifteen years and more we have been the second club for trophies won, only Olimpia Milano has done better – continued the number one of the white-blue management -. They tell me that I did not see relegation coming, that I kicked out people like Pozzecco. That is absolutely not true, in fact in the specific case it had been a consensual decision. Ours is a healthy society, I don’t know if there are people who expect anything else. I’m looking for elements who want to invest in Sassari, not people who want to take basketball away from here.”
Then also a reference to alleged refereeing wrongs suffered by the island team during the course of the championship: “Three times this season I received an apology from the head of the referees. It also happened after a game with Cantù: without some mistakes we would be safe now and they would be in A2.”
Dinamo Sassari was relegated at the end of the 2025-2026 regular season for the first time in sixteen years: its last year in the then Legadue was in 2009-2010, since then a Scudetto, two Italian Cups, two Italian Super Cups and a FIBA Europe Cup have come, as well as numerous individual awards for players who have now entered the club’s history such as Drake and Travis Diener, Rakim Sanders or James White.
