Sergio Pellissier it was Chievo and it still will be. After the words of the past few days, the historic Gialloblù captain tells agianlucadimarzio.com what future lies ahead for the company he created from scratch a few weeks ago.
The new FC Chievo 1929 will start from the Third Category, given that the registration in Serie D was not possible, despite Pellissier’s attempts.
The new Chievo starts from the Third Category
Why he explains it to us: “Lack of funds and time to find them. Now I try to recreate a company from scratch. We will register in the Third Category, trying to do something important and then see what will happen Next year ”.
How could you climb the hierarchies of Italian football in less than 12 months? “You can merge and take the titles from another team to take a leap forward. Or it seems there may also be the possibility of Serie D through the mayor. I want to be ready with a new company to try to start again”Hopes the former number 31.
The technical times to register for the D Series were too tight, despite the desire to find partners to work alongside to achieve the goal: “My idea was born as soon as I saw that Chievo would not have been able to enroll in Serie B. Things went badly and I tried to make a racing company, but it was not possible to fix the situation“.
“I believed it. Then I thought I’d say enough, but Chievo couldn’t disappear “
Pellissier continues: “I worked on it for a week and a half. I tried to bring some with me former player, but many rightly wanted to have their backs covered before entering the project. I didn’t care, I tried until the end because that was my goal.
Last Friday the last possible sponsors gave me the hole and Saturday morning I should have registered for the municipality’s manifestation of interest. At that point I realized that I would not have made it and I resigned myself”.
Despite this, however, the words to “The Arena“And the courage to explain his attempt, albeit unsuccessful:”I was under no obligation to put my face on it and to try. I cared, believed in it and would have liked to do it. Once the feat of D fails, I also had the thought of saying “enough” and quitting.
Then instead, since I already had the company started, it seemed right to go ahead and find out how it was going to end. The goal now is to create a youth sector and a solid structure. A strong company, which with the help of someone can do more next year”.
Pellissier will have to make the position within the new Chievo coexist with that of general manager of the Rovigo (Venetian First Category team), accepted less than two months ago. The former striker, however, does not see any problems in this sense: “I don’t like abandoning people who believe in me. I wasn’t there every day with Rovigo, but I don’t think it will be a problem. I hope to do well there too, because I have found people who want to restore credibility to society and a city that deserves it“.
Returning to Chievo, however, not many supported the idea of the former captain, but the help of a historic manager of the Clivian club was fundamental: “I found myself with the former general manager Enzo Zanin, who has been within the company for 35 years. He helped me create the new team and now we are trying to move forward together.
I will be the president, even if the official name will change. But within it the word Chievo had to be absolutely there”.
No to Campedelli: “I want another Chievo, with the values of my old team”
Despite the words of President Campedelli, who had partly opened the possibility of working together and perhaps rebuilding the “old” Chievo, Pellissier’s ideas are very clear and distinctly different: “I don’t want to buy Chievo with debt. It’s not my goal and I wouldn’t even have the money to do it.
I want to restart and see Chievo again, even with another name, within the FIGC. Seeing him totally disappear would have hurt me a lot”.
Then we start again, with a new name and history, but with the idea of rediscovering the values of the real Chievo, probably lost in recent years: “Credo it is understood how much I care. It will certainly not be Pellissier’s Chievo, but of all the people who love the team.
It would be nice that the fans participated and were present. It does not matter the category, but if you make a group and you are united. So you take away a lot of satisfaction egi can achieve important results in no time. We want to start over with a healthy, humble and willing society. In short, all the values of Chievo of the past, the one I married. I’d like him to come back”.
One step at a time, one can only wish him that. For those who have lived through the incredible era of that Chievo, despite the disappointment of the epilogue, to know that a legend like Pellissier still has that coat of arms printed on the heart it is no small consolation.
