Milan, Pioli wins the ‘Gentleman Coach Gigi Simoni 2021/2022’ award
The organization of Gentleman Fair Play Awardin collaboration with the Serie B Leagueannounces that the winner of the special prize ‘Gentleman Coach Gigi Simoni 2021/22‘ is Stefano Pioli.
L’coach of AC Milan he is among the coaches of Italian football to have collected the highest number of votes from the twenty current coaches of the BKT series: according to colleagues, during the 2021/2022 season, Pegs would have represented the values that have always distinguished Gigi Simoni, an undisputed lord of our football to whom the award, now in its second edition, is dedicated.
“An acknowledgment that closes a circle – he underlines Gianfranco Fasan patron of the Gentleman Fair Play – and recognizes a Stefano Pioli human and professional merits that even his own colleagues wanted to enhance, indicating him as a model to follow for his style and his loyalty on and off the pitch”. “When we thought about the prize – explains the president of Lega Serie B Mauro Balata – we started from the person, from Gigi Simoni, dear to us both for the style but also because with the seven promotions he is the most successful in the history of B. Logical therefore not to reward only the skill, the results or the revelation of the season but also the human qualities, an aspect to which the Lega B is particularly keen on and promotes through numerous initiatives. In the case of Stefano Pioli, ability and fair play are characteristics that coincide”.
Stefano Pioli is therefore the winner of the second edition of the Gentleman coach Gigi Simoni 2021/22 and succeeds in the roll of honor to Claudio Ranierivoted for by B colleagues in the 2020/21 season.
The awards ceremony is scheduled for Monday 5 December, from 6 pm, in the Assembly Hall of the Serie B League in via Ippolito Rosellini 4 in the presence of the president of Lega Serie B, Mauro Balataas well as the organizer of the Gentleman Fair Play Award, Gianfranco Fasan and to the family of Gigi Simoni.
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