Diego Coppola says goodbye to Hellas Verona and flies to Premier League

An Italian defender lands in the Premier League: he is Diego Coppola, class of 2003, one of the architects of Hellas Verona’s salvation. Coppola, from Verona, has in fact been sold to Brighton & Hove Albion. Cost of the transaction: 11 million euros in the coffers of the Scaliger club, which will now have to replace both him and the Argentine Valentini who returned to the defensive line at the end of his loan to Fiorentina.

Coppola is currently playing with the national Under-21 team in the European Championship and recently made his debut with the national A team, in the match lost in Norway last June 6.

In the meantime, Hellas Verona has announced that it will open the 2025-2026 season with three friendly matches, which will be played during the Folgaria retreat at the Sports Center ‘La Pineta’ where it will carry out its summer preparation from July 13 to 27: on Wednesday, July 16 at 5 p.m.30 the yellow-blue team will face Top 22 Calcio Dilettanti Verona, on Sunday, July 20 at the same time it will face ASD Rovereto’ASD Rovereto while on Sunday, July 27, again at 5:30 p.m., it will take the field against Virtus Verona.