Valerio Antonini, president of Trapani, during the presentation conference of sporting director Pavone and coach Capuano, did not use kind words for the previous management: “For the moment with Pavone we only spoke about the technical part because I believe that, as the coach also said, the organization is not what the team lacks. There was a lack of guidance from behind the scenes that was important and credible for the team. When you have a director who is not credible, the players do as they want unfortunately: this is the problem was created a sort of house of Big Brother, where everyone did what they wanted, when they wanted and unfortunately this situation created difficulties, even for the coach. I have to say that I have some responsibilities, which I fully assume, for not having taken certain steps sooner. I believe that people’s intelligence is also in a moment of difficulty in understanding when mistakes are made and starting from them with more strength. I know that I made a mistake because I initially believed, I kept a word which was that of Torrisi and of Mussi in the victory of the last championship.
The difficulty in moving from Serie D to Serie C was also important for us, even for me despite the team being very strong. We made a very strong team but without an organization worthy of the name, unfortunately it suffered from difficulties that were not visible to the eye but were there. So today I believe that the most important role that I had to cover was that of a sporting director who was also director within the relationships between president and team and combine it with a man with Ezio’s character and with Ezio’s qualities I believe that he is the perfect mix, an extraordinary balance that can give the team tranquility on the one hand but on the other the awareness that they can’t joke anymore and that they are going in the only direction which is that of Serie B. Coincidentally, the new coach takes over, we win 1-0 suffering and the others forgiveness. I think the championship started yesterday: I told the players that paradoxically today I have more conviction than 10 days ago and that we can really get it back this season, we have to recover seven points from Benevento before the direct clash on the penultimate day, which could become five if Turris and Taranto will be excluded from the championship. So we have a task that is absolutely not impossible within the reach of this team and with these two men that I have chosen I believe that we are potentially much stronger today than 10 days ago.”