Andrea Radici will coach OmiFer “Franco Tigano” Palmi also next season, which will see the association, led by president Pino Carbone, involved in the A2 series championship. That of the coach born in Città di Castello is the first official announcement of the Calabrian team, which after greetings to Pawel Stabrawa, Francesco Cottarelli, Ermino Russo and Alberto Amato is preparing to announce the players confirmed compared to last year’s roster and the new arrivals who will to strengthen the staff for next season.
«I am extremely happy – the words of coach Andrea Radici – to be the coach of Franco Tigano for next season too. Mine is certainly not rhetorical because I am truly happy and it is difficult to be able to express other concepts or other sentences.” For the leader of the blue and gold team, a season to be experienced in the knowledge that there will be much to sweat but also to enjoy, race after race, this new reality which arrives in Palmi for the first time: «As is natural, the objective I set for myself is to try to truly give 110% for this club and for this fantastic adventure that we will have in Serie A2. We are trying to create the best conditions for this long-awaited and important season. For the moment – concludes Radici – I just want to say that I thank all my technical and also healthcare staff because it is truly thanks above all to the work we have done together that today I can celebrate this arrival”.
Having arrived in Palmi for the first time in November 2022, Andrea Radici made his debut at a very young age on the bench of the youth sector of Tifernate volleyball, holding the role of second coach of the first team in the Serie A2 championship in the 1989-1990 season. After a brief period in Serie C1 with San Giustino, at 26 he found himself at the helm of important clubs – Perugia, Arezzo, Spoleto, Foligno and Bastia – in the Serie B2 and B1 championships, with which he achieved great personal satisfaction. In the 2007-2008 season he returns to Volleyball Città di Castello. With the red and white team he obtained promotion to Serie A2 in the same year and promotion to Serie A1 in 2012-2013, a category in which he remained until 2015 coaching the Piacenza team. As technical manager of the regional representative of Umbria he also won second place at the 2012 Regions Trophy. Narbonne (Ligue A) and Fano (first B, then A3) are some of the last teams trained before the pandemic.