Congratulations indeed to those who chose the slogan to link to our Serie B, namely: "the championship of the Italians". That's right, our cadet tournament manages to embody our being Italian almost perfectly, with many advantages but also many defects. Enthusiasm, emotions, surprises, humanity, loyalty, unpredictability, perseverance and even inability at times, but the common factor is that desire and that ability to face, away from the spotlight, often prohibitive situations, most of the time overcoming them brilliantly despite everything .
Even a presentation of this kind to a "minor" league that often struggles to find even a "blurb" on our national sports newspapers, many will ask. That's right, because our Serie B proves to deserve with facts, much more attention than it is reserved.
It would be enough to have looked at last night's advance staged at the Adriatico stadium between two of the contenders for the category jump: the Pescara of veteran Zeman and the Frosinone of the predestined Moreno Longo. A commercial for sports could be one of those titles where you play with words, as we often see at the head of an article.
However, what was broadcast yesterday in Pescara is impossible to explain in a few words, it would not render the right dimension of what we saw and experienced during the 90 minutes. If you look at the scores, although important, everything would suggest an absolute domination of the hosts during a first half that close with the overwhelming result of 3-0 thanks to the hat-trick of the striker Pettinari who in addition to taking the second ball home on three games played, he tops the scorer standings with 6 goals to his credit. Game more than closed someone would think, certainly the most rational ones. Not at all. We also read the scoreboard of the second half: 3-1, 3-2, 3-3, like the choir made up for the occasion by the large representation of visiting fans who, despite the weekday, flock to support their Frosinone.
The match report, embellished with formations, scorers, substitutions, votes, number of spectators (which will specifically be about 10.000), at this point runs out and in this respect the match is archived with a final 3-3 tie between two teams they face openly and divide the stakes. Nothing false, but whoever attends the match sees a whole world accompanying these important statistics. He sees that during the first portion of the game, the dominance of a Pescara steamroller who sends his opponents back to the locker room with three goals on his back did not exist. He sees that the hosts capitalize beyond their wildest expectations the few packaged shares, he undoubtedly sees the cynical approach of the biancazzurri, but he also sees that on the result of 1-0 signed at the start by Pettinari, the ciociari hit 3 woods and they play a big game, at least equal to their opponents. However, again by Pettinari, they suffer the 2-0 first, spoiled by an obvious offside not reported by the careless and lucky assistant De Troia, whose name lends itself to the invectives of the Frosinone supporters, especially those who remained at home in front of the television , which clearly shows an off-side of at least one meter. The 45th strikes, Longo already has in mind the speech to make to his boys in the locker room to encourage and motivate them to recover a heavy but profoundly unfair result. The coach of Frosinone, is about to take on the role of the psychologist motivator, when again he, the Pettinari striker seems to fall into the area, gets up and bags for the third time. The first half therefore ends for 3 goals at 3 woods. It really seems the end for everyone, even for the most incurable dreamers, but not for Longo and his terrible gang. We do not know for sure what happened in the locker room, but given the final result, we can imagine it. The second half begins and after a further crossbar hit by Sammarco who had managed to overcome the former Pigliacelli author up to that moment of at least two miracles on Ciano, when it really seems that good luck had gone for a coffee on the Pescara seafront and he didn't want to go back to the stadium, Ciano takes care of it first on a free kick and then on action brings the guests back to the game with the result of 3-2. Pescara, as had happened for a good part of the match, is under siege and a draw is in the air. The Frosinone captain and ex Pescara, Daniel Ciofani, takes care of that from a distance, letting a fireball start and scoring one of the best goals in Serie B, is 3-3. Frosinone does not stop and wants to win. He would also get this victory, and it would be completely deserved, but always he, the assistant who in the fan's imagination is probably the most "insulting" in Italy, always denies Daniel Ciofani the very regular goal of 3-4 for offside inexistent.
Here comes a beautiful race, also made of several mistakes made by the protagonists in the field, the refereeing round, but exciting and good wish for a series B lives like never before.
GB
photos: Frosinone Calcio
