Football Italia: Season 7: Victorious!

Season Seven: Victorious!

Despite some quite random scaremongering, we were able to consolidate our early season form and continue to steamroller the league. With just a short time to go before the end of the season, I wanted to wrap up our progress for now, so that I can use the end of season review as a planning tool for next year.

 

Realistically, these games have been really useful indicators of just who I can trust for next year and who is fighting for their place within our squad. With the league a foregone conclusion for some time now, it has been really interesting to see how players can come in, adapt to my in-game changes and flourish, or – in some cases – struggle. Souleymane Traore has looked good, as has Demetrio Mirabelli but both will likely be some way short of the required quality for the first team squad next year.

With just one more point, two more wins and four more goals needed to break those records, I am supremely positive that we can wrap up this season, not only breaking our own records but also some long-standing Serie B ones, too. I’m delighted that Catania, another Sicily side, may be able to make the jump with us to Serie A, particularly as Palermo have joined Venezia in administration this year but also look like they’re about to fail in their plan to return immediately to Serie B following successive relegations.

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Our youth intake has really motivated me, given our promotion to Serie A, to consider the longer term structure of the club. Led by Luke Chester, who, with his 21-minute cameo on debut, became our youngest ever player. We’ve just added Trapani – a current Serie D side – to our list of affiliates so may well have two nice starter teams in the lower reaches of Italian football as well as Croatian side Rudes, who might just survive the drop this year. In the summer, I’ll really look at how I plan to succession through, from the youth side to the senior side. One of my favourite planning activities!

Forza Biancoscudati!