This afternoon the sporting director of Ascoli, Emanuele Righispoke in the press conference about the decision to sack Carrera and entrust the bench to Ledesma, who will have Luigi Giorgi as his collaborator: “Carrera is a coach who arrived last year, the Club had convincedly placed its bets on him, unfortunately the last season ended with relegation; this year we tried, but when it comes to dismissal it’s a defeat for everyone, I had an excellent relationship with Carrera, from a human point of view he gave me a lot, at the same time however we have arrived at a situation in which we have had to take this action. The first thought of this conference goes to Carrera, Porrini and Saracini, in recent months they have spent as much as they could to revive Ascoli, a dismissal is always a defeat for everyone.
Ledesma is our coach today, I can’t add anything else because it is correct to prepare tomorrow’s match well, we only had two days to do it. From an identity point of view, there wasn’t the response we expected from the team, so we proceeded with the dismissal. The team has objective difficulties, there could also be some faults on my part, I expect the team to do more because it is in the heart of these guys, but I believe that a team doesn’t change overnight. I believe that the choice to change the coach definitively makes the players responsible and also removes the alibis, so the players will have to do more than what they have done up to now. With Rimini I expect a determined Ascoli, the important thing is that there is this type of response.”