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Andrea Sottil relaunches Modena: first place, best attack, and best defense in Serie B. The team dreams big after the draw with Palermo.

The most anticipated match of the eighth round of Serie B was undoubtedly between Palermo and Modena, the top two teams. In the end, it did not disappoint: many chances on both sides, great intensity, and a final 1-1 score that surely favors the canaries. With this result, Sottil’s team remains in first place, two points ahead of the rosanero.

However, Modena may have deserved even more based on their performance. Nevertheless, Sottil himself spoke of an “extraordinary performance” by his players after the match, emphasizing how a result like this can only boost self-confidence for the upcoming matches.

After all, it’s not easy for everyone to play with such personality at the home of the team considered by many as the main favorite for promotion.

Modena, promotion target

The credit for this season’s start largely goes to Andrea Sottil, chosen in the summer to lead a completely revamped team. After a very active transfer window, with the sale of Palumbo to the rosanero, the third most lucrative in the history of the yellow and blue, and the departures of veterans like Gagno, Zaro, and Duca, the management focused on experienced players like Zampano, Chichizola, Adorni, and Di Mariano, as well as promising young talents like Zanimacchia, Sersanti, and Pyyhtiä.

Sottil, coming from challenging experiences at Udinese and Sampdoria, with a brief stint at Salernitana as well, has managed to unite the group and give a clear identity to the team. Today, Modena has the best attack and defense in the league, and above all, a new sense of awareness.

It’s only the eighth round, but the feeling is clear: with Sottil, Serie A is no longer a dream but a concrete goal.

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Juve Stabia, earthquake for the Campania club. Apparently, the club is in the hands of a mafia clan, and now the case is under investigation by the prosecutor’s office in Naples

Juve Stabia, chaos of mafia infiltrations

The club is in the hands of the Camorra. This is the accusation of Nicola Grattieri, Prosecutor of Naples, according to whom: “The team’s movements, security, drinking, ticket management, everything was in the hands of the Camorra.” This is not the first case of mafia involvement in Italian football, but the situation remains worrying, with Serie B now trembling. According to the version offered by collaborators of justice, the club would be “An instrumental asset, in the hands of the D’Alessandro clan,” the mafia influence would touch the economic part of the club. Here are Grattieri’s words, published in today’s edition of Corriere del Mezzogiorno:

“Before Juve Stabia there were similar measures for Foggia Calcio and Crotone Calcio. This time, however, the mafia has reached Serie B, and this is shocking.”

“Juve Stabia was a means for the Camorra to gain publicity and exercise power. Clan members were present in various services: from bus transportation to ambulances, from the sale of drinks to tickets and security control in the stadium. Complete package, the players only had to play, the Camorra took care of the rest.”

Prosecutor Melillo speaks

Not only Grattieri, but also Melillo commented on the situation of the club in Castellammare di Stabia: “The aim of the measure is to remove the company from mafia influence, which was particularly evident. The entire service network was subject to clan conditioning due to indifference, underestimation, and connivance. Even the boss D’Alessandro’s father-in-law was previously president of Juve Stabia. Now it is important to support the company, with the commitment of the Prefecture.”

Space is also given to the words of the prefect of Naples, Michele di Bari: “The repression action of the judiciary has identified failings in this company and now it is necessary to accompany it on a path of legality, because a series of companies that will already be examined by the Antimafia inter-force group of the Prefecture with the issuance of possible consequent measures.”