Parma in B with three new names and one doubt

Not even time to celebrate and at home Parma is time to think about the future. Promotion to Serie B, the fourth in the club’s history, seems to be opening up interesting horizons. Serie B means entering the “substantial” television rights circuit, and adding this to the economic readiness of the new Chinese ownership, which in any case will not have decision-making power for a year, thinking of a championship as protagonists certainly does not seem utopian.

In this sense, ds Faggiano, moved away the shadows regarding a possible divorce, has already been at work for weeks, to the point of having already closed for the arrival of three players: outstanding among them is Antonino Barillà, an experienced midfielder esteemed by Faggiano who had him at Trapani, already close to Parma in January, whose arrival in Emilia lacks only the official approval, as well as the three-year contract that will bind Marco Frediani, external striker product of Roma’s youth academy, to the crociati, back from the loan at Ancona where last season the player stood out despite the nightmarish season of the Marche, scoring among other things at Parma in the first leg and in the return. Finally, Facundo Lescano, an Argentine striker born in ’96, also arriving at 0 cost from Igea Virtus, after winning the Primavera championship with Torino in 2015.

Only a few days now divide instead the solution to the Lucarelli mystery: after raising the playoff cup, the captain, who will turn 40 in July, is tempted to bid farewell to soccer in beauty, but promotion could push him to continue playing to improve new records with the Crociata jersey.