Today Luciano Foschi is enjoying his well-deserved golden moment, but the Lecco coach fresh from promotion to Serie B made his debut on the bench in Sardinia.
And specifically in Olbia, where, as a player, he was promoted in the same year to the role of coach: it was the 2001/02 season, and Foschi, a former midfielder who grew up in the Lazio youth sector, won his first championship in Gallura, bringing the whites from Serie D to C2. In his career, also the experience at Torres, in the 2007/08 tournament, after Novara, Teramo and Reggiana and before Alessandria, Savona, Pordenone, Renate, Livorno, Ravenna and Carpi. Up to Lecco, as a substitute and winning again.
The Lombard team won the cadet championship against Foggia in the playoff final, winning the first leg 2-1 away and imposing themselves in the return 3-1 at home, blowing up a square that finds B again after 50 years of absence. And Foschi had his enormous weight in this historic goal, in managing the play-offs but also and above all in the course of a record-breaking season, as the numbers suggest.
Having picked up the baton from former Juve Alessio Tacchinardi on the fifth day of group B of Serie C, the 55-year-old coach from Albano Laziale brought the blucelesti from the bottom of the table, where they were stationed with 4 points, to third place, closing the regular season at 62. So the playoffs, in which Lecco eliminated Ancona, Pordenone and Cesena in order before beating Foggia in the final.
"I've always believed in it, it's a stronger team than what the others said: we demonstrated it in these playoffs," explained Foschi at the full-time whistle in the second leg, played yesterday. «At the end of these two games, I think the best team won: we faced a strong opponent, but Lecco, and I say this without presumption, proved to be more so. The boys have always been on track, they have never given up, and now – he concluded – they can rightly celebrate». And Foschi with them.
