Lecce has decided to sack coach Roberto D'Aversa, after the coach's headbutt to Thomas Herny of Verona during the Lecce-Verona final yesterday, Sunday March 10, which ended in the defeat of the Lecce team. The club announced the dismissal in a short note: “After the events that occurred at the end of the Lecce-Verona match, Us Lecce announces that it has relieved coach Roberto D'Aversa of his duties. Thanks to the coach and his staff – continues the Giallorossi club – for the work accomplished.
Immediately after the match, D'Aversa himself tried to give his version of events to the Sky microphones, trying to downplay it: “There was an exciting ending, already in the last minutes of the match, where there was had some provocations. I didn't want my boys to be disqualified or similar, me and Henry came into contact: the gesture was not a pretty sight, but my intention was to divide the others. He continued his provocations even after the match was over.” D'Aversa then added: “At the end of the match I immediately greeted Marco Baroni, then there was a fight and that was the intention” , that is, trying to avoid disciplinary measures for the players. “We spoke to the managers and that's it. I didn't go on the pitch to headbutt, I went to greet Baroni , my intention was absolutely not to go towards Henry. I repeat: an ugly gesture to see, despite everything.”
The club had already condemned D'Aversa's behavior with a very harsh statement, which opened the way for the possibility of his dismissal: “US Lecce, in reference to the episode involving coach D'Aversa and the Verona player Henry, assessing the situation of general nervousness at the end of the match, firmly condemns the gesture of his coach as contrary to the principles and values of sport.
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