Today in Trento President Kyle Krause, spoke to the media spoke to the media for the first time since his arrival yesterday.
"For this season we have kept many players from last year, there have been 5 new additions and we have already noticed a greater interaction between them, they look more like a team. I saw them both at the training camp and in the hotel. Last season taught us two lessons: avoid relegation and put together a team that can function as a team in the shortest possible time. I think I can say that, also on behalf of Fabio, he did not have great surprises, he noticed the presence of different talents within the team and I think he can be happy with the material he has available. And I am at the complete disposal of our coach to know where there are needs and once he has expressed his wishes, it will be the scouting part that will have to recover what will be needed. Seeing his game, we need players of depth, of outsiders. We do not have a lack of talent, but of more specific roles." "The Corporate Managing Director? And the Managing Director Sport? It was an honor and a pleasure to have been able to officially announce the engagement attributed to Luca, who is a man of great experience and with a very significant career behind him. He is a person I know and I have already had the opportunity to meet him, talking to him several times and I am very happy, but also very surprised, for the very talented figures who have proposed themselves to fill the position of Managing Director Sport, figures at European level but as I have already had the opportunity to say in the last two years, our idea of this role is not in line with the Italian consideration of this role. He must not scout or supervise the Men's First Team. The figure that we aim to identify is that of a person who not only has experience in the world of football, but also to give a direction to what I call 'Parma mode' at 360 degrees. As I said a couple of conferences ago, we are not far from identifying this figure but the research continues, for us it is important to find the right person. Our team in the sports sector is working well and is able to accept this challenge. I return to the United States this week and have no press conference planned to make announcements of this kind. I'm a very competitive person, I like to win. The success that we can achieve with Parma Calcio in the men's sector will also depend a lot on what we do in the youth sector. And developing the youth sector takes years, takes time. We have to identify the methodology, the approach, to adopt this also in the First Team. And in order to contribute to the development of boys and girls, we will strengthen the performance and analytics sector by including new resources, new people. The primary goal is to return to Serie A, I am also willing to make short-term decisions to do this. I see in the future a younger team, but not only made up of young people. With guys taken all over Europe. I am a fan and a lover of Italian football, I am a supporter of the Italian national team, many in our squad will be Italians. In 5 years we will also have a new stadium and a new sports center with all the benefits that these structures will give to both men's and women's football. Serie B? I will seem incongruous, but I am pleased that it has strengthened. This allows us to raise the level of what we are doing. For me it would be much better against 19 amateur teams, but that's not what will happen. Our aim is to make the investments and efforts to bring the team back to where it deserves, in Serie A, which is what the fans want, like all of us. My promise for the season? I can't promise promotion, if that's what you were referring to. But I can promise to make every effort, all within our capabilities, to make promotion our goal. If we look at the last two seasons, we too have made mistakes and I don't think it makes much sense to look for the culprits. If you then ask me if this one that is being born is the strongest Parma of the last two seasons, surely it is. If we look at two seasons ago, we have added a new coach, a new sporting director and made a lot of decisions at the end of the transfer market. And in hindsight, we didn't have the type of team to stay in Serie A. As for last year, we had several players who wanted the Parma team. And if they didn't want to stay, Parma also didn't want to keep them. It is not an accusation, some of the players who left Parma, went to teams at European level also obtaining important results. Now we have a hard core of players who have been playing together for a long time, they know each other and you can immediately notice it on the pitch. Returning to the promises, we will do what is necessary to return Parma to a successful team in the long term. This will involve investments today for tomorrow."
0 Comments
With the captain finally joining up with the rest of the squad this week at Val di Pejo. Gigi spoke of his desire to continue and how he is ready for the new Serie B season.
"I am not 100 years old. There were ten years at Parma in the first life, 20 years at Juve in the second, then one in Paris, two back in Juve and now I close the circle here at Parma" When quizzed about his retirement: "I'm retiring at 55? Yes,more or less. I've been thinking for many years about when I'll stop. I'm not sure I'll stay in this world, maybe I'll experience something else, I know football but I'm curious and I like to know other worlds." The strongest players he has played with: "I don't mention a name because maybe I am conditioned by the relationships that exist. I can say the five strongest Italian: Baggio, Totti, Del Piero, Pirlo and Cassano. Among the top foreigners I say, Thuram, Naymar, Mbappe, CR7, Ibra and I only say attackers because they are the ones who in the end catch the eye and make you dream" The best monemt of your career? "It's difficult to choose one, In a career like mine there are many good and bad moments. The greatest point of satisfation was the World Cup. I was 28 years old. I was playing. I thought at this point had already played over half my career but I hadn't I wasn't even half way. Kyle Krause: "We believe in the development of women's football."
11/07/2022 - Upon his return from Ametica Kyle Krause along with sporting director Domenico Aurelio and coach Fabio Ulderici, the presedent illustrated the developments in the womens sector. Heres what he had to say; "I have just arrived back from America yesterday, I saw on the television the somewhat disappointing debut of the Italian national team at the European Championships, I would like to wish them well for the future of the tournament. In a few days I will go to Pejo where the mens first team are currently in retreat and I will have the opportunity to see them train and possibly play. In retreat I will also have the opportunity to say hello to the Womens team who after a few days work in Collecchio they will also head up to the mountains over the weekend. The fact that both the mens and womens teams meet in Pejo is testimony to our willingness to act in a similar way, but not the same. The fact our men's team, women's team and academy teams all have the opportunity to prepare in Pejo in the first step in a joint effort. It would be madness not to exploit the power that the mens team has experienced in the titles and history it has in order not to favour the growth of the womens sector. So there will surly be join initiatives to contribute to the further growth of the womens sector." "This will be our first season in Serie A and it will be very important with a lot of work to do. This is why I hope in collaboration with the media they will give space to the womens movement to help us involve our fans as much as possible, as you know womens football is looked at very differently from mens football here in Italy, that's why I appeal for your support, speaking and giving visibility to womens football to create greater involvment. The announcement of our acquisition of a Serie A club was a few weeks ago since then a lot has been done and the two gentlemen who are sitting here next to me, the Sporting Director, Domenico Aurelio and the Coach, Fabio Ulderici know it well but I would like to extend my thanks to all those who have worked at Parma Calcio to make this possible. As for expectations, far be it for me to want to put pressure on the Sports Director or Coach we are presenting the main expectation is for the team to stay in Serie A and to grow the womens sector. It is therefore with great pleasure that I present these two figures today, we were very lucky to involve them in our project they are teo figures with important experience and with excellent references." "As for the expectations for the future, as I mentioned before the goal is to keep us in the league and improve. The womens Serie A boasts several clubs that have played in that league for much longer than us, so the current goal is not to close the gap in a very short time, it will take time..... Anyway you know my love for Italy but why not go to Europe too? and set ourselves a future goal, to go to Europe!" "I don't know if our approach to both men and women is global because at European and World level there are companies that operate like this. I come from a country where womens football has been promoted a lot more and has had greater visibilty than here in Italy. I don't have the answers at my disposal but one thing is for sure is that both Parma Calcio and I in general believe in the growth of womens football and I stress it deserves the right visibility because this can help the growth of the movement. That is why I ask for a collaboration to be able to create this fantastic product that also attracts the new generations and makes the product grow." "The Serie A championship will begin on 27th and 28th August, we are all waiting for you...." |
Archives
July 2022
|