He arrived in late spring of this year, to change a team that was dangerously slipping towards unhealthy classification zones. One might have thought that this would be a temporary solution until the end of the championship, but instead, from his first day as captain of the Canaries, Pierpaolo Bisoli immediately made things clear. Because he immediately met the Braglia people a few minutes before his first training session, as well as in his first press conferences before and after the match, he certainly talked about the present but did not miss a single hint or joke about the next season.
“We will have fun”, part of the leitmotif of coach Boretta Terme, thanks to a contract that also stipulates that he will remain on the bench in 2024/25 (but we know that contracts are often concluded in football, to close before time…), but above all an idea that, like his personality, won over everyone in a short time. Because Bisoli, a tough but honest man with a stronger sense of professionalism than many of his more famous colleagues, immediately put his person, without doubts or reservations, at the service of the Canary cause.
He himself, who has been in Modena over the years, especially when he was in charge of Cesena, the historical rival of the Yellows, was one of the most “unwanted” coaches who sat on the bench of the Braglia reserved for the visiting team. But Bisoli has always known this, and he has made it almost a motto to “be on the line” for his opponents, because he also wants the teams he coaches to be like that, squirming, angry, so that the sooner they get out of the way in the championship, the better. And now here he is, starting from the beginning of a season that could be defined, after the “soon” at the end of the last championship, as his first real year as coach of the Yellows and Blues. The people, the former enemy, have already been conquered. Because, and this is largely to his credit, even in the arenas where he arrived as an unsuitable rival, he has always been respected, just as he has never respected the fans he went to meet.
Bisoli likes to be among the people, his people. And those people today are the Canarian people. It may seem like a somewhat “deliberate” attitude to attract the masses to his side, but those who know him well know that this is not the case. Pierpaolo Bisoli, with his personality as frank and rough as the mountains surrounding Porretta where he grew up, when he takes up the cause of football, he does so completely and today, and not just with words, he feels like a Modigliani. And now he is ready to lead the yellow team from day one. Without any particular declarations, other than those that guarantee the utmost commitment for him and the team until the last minute of each match. And without hiding behind clichés or empty words, the open training sessions that he sometimes wants (after years in which sessions were completely forbidden to the public) bear witness to this more than anything else. And then, as always happens, the field will do the talking. Good job, sir.
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