Having been a consultant for the new owners of Olbia for a few weeks, Ninni Corda has returned to work with a Sardinian team after a long period (on the bench and beyond) away from the island. For the Gallura team, defeated yesterday 1-0 by Lucchese, the standings are very complicated but there is hope of maintaining Serie C. «The people who are working on it have great competence, unfortunately it is a cursed year but I hope that all the components manage to reach safety», his opinion on the whites during L'Informatore Sportivo on Radiolina. «Olbia is a great reality, it would be a great tragedy to be relegated. SwissPro has also invested a lot of money in the city, then the priority is sporting results." On the other Sardinian in Group B, Torres second, the now former coach now manager has a clear idea: «For me he has already won the championship, regardless of how the playoffs go which are always a toss up. Lot. We must congratulate the owners, the sporting director Colombino, the technical staff and the players. Cesena are a battleship, now they have to compete. And then he has Gigi Scotto: extraordinary."
Double career. Corda is born in Nuoro, but he has never coached the Verdazzurri (now at the top of Group B of the Promotion). Among his many teams, however, he led the team that is competing for supremacy against the Barbagia, Alghero, who yesterday played an exciting direct clash which ended 2-2. «I spent two wonderful years in Alghero, from 2008 to 2010», he recalls on the program hosted by Lorenzo Piras. «In the first one I took over with four points in thirteen days and we survived without even making the play-outs: I consider it as a championship victory, an extraordinary feat. In the second we finished fourth but, due to a two-point penalty, we finished sixth without making the playoffs. We had players like Aresti and Cocco." Now, however, he has a more managerial role: «I have been a director for eight years, apart from a period where Felleca asked me to go on the bench in Foggia and we won the championship, and I don't think about returning to coaching. I'm very direct and I try to bring results home: I was criticized because three years ago I punished the players by making them train at 6 in the morning, but those who work in the mines do it every day." Corda also clarifies the complaints received in a couple of recent experiences: «These are issues where I am the injured party and I am waiting for justice to be done, because clarity has already been achieved and sooner or later the truth emerges».
