Traditional club back after 34 years
With Filippo Inzaghi as a trainer, the traditional club succeeds in the long -awaited promotion.
Back again: Filippo Inzaghi (2nd VR) and Pisa
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With Filippo Inzaghi as a trainer, the traditional club succeeds in the long -awaited promotion.
After 34 years, the city of the crooked tower has just moved the conditions again: the SC Pisa is back in the first class football, the team of coach Filippo Inzaghi made the promotion perfect on the third last day of series B. Despite a 0-1 defeat in the distant bari, the return after a felt eternity was back on Sunday evening.
Because pursuers Spezia Calcio also lost on Sunday (1: 2 at AC Reggiana), Pisa is no longer to be displaced from the second direct promotion place behind Sassuolo Calcio. The teams play the third promoted teams in places three to six in their own round.
Pisa was relegated to the last time in the 1990/91 – among others with the blood boy Diego Simeone, now a coach of Atletico Madrid, in midfield – from series A and subsequently passed through to league four.
After 13th place in the 2023/24 season, the former Italian striker icon Inzaghi took over the club from Tuscany and now turned into the hero of the city. In the coming season, “Superpippo” will meet his younger brother Simone. As a footballer, he was familiar with the clear number two, but is a coach – currently very successful at Inter Milan.