Hopes that Massimo Cellino will be able to meet federal deadlines and pay the salaries of Brescia Calcio members for the last two months by 3 pm have definitely vanished. The Lombard club is now one step away from bankruptcy, which would be the first in its 114-year history. At 9 pm, the fans organized a meeting in the parking lots of the Rigamonti stadium.
Cellino, as he had already announced several times in the last period and confirmed yesterday evening, did not want to deposit the 3 million euros that would have been needed to settle the outstanding debts into the club's accounts . This led Brescia to be excluded from the professional championships and the company was facing bankruptcy proceedings. In the past few days, there was talk of a sale to a group of investors headed by another Cagliari native , Francesco Marroccu, but the deal did not materialize.
The situation is part of the story that led to an eight-point penalty to be served in the last Serie B championship, with Brescia's automatic relegation to Serie C and the playout that will be played on June 15 and 20 by Salernitana and Sampdoria . Under the club's headquarters, in via Solferino, several fans gathered to protest Cellino himself . The former owner of Cagliari, in rossoblù from 1992 to 2014, had taken over the club in 2017 after three years spent in England at Leeds United. And in recent weeks he had spoken of a scam against him and the club .
"In this painful moment", the message from captain Dimitri Bisoli, son of Pierpaolo and born in Cagliari, "I wanted to show my closeness to all the people of Brescia, to all those who have made sacrifices to follow Brescia, to all those who have worked with honesty and dedication for the good of Brescia. Today 114 years of history have been trampled on, but Brescia is not him, Brescia is us and that is why Brescia will never die, indeed I am certain that it will rise again stronger than before , because Brescia is made up of many, many people who like me love these colors, this city and this team. Brescia is and will always be only us. The lioness never dies".
(Unioneonline/r.sp.)