Roberto Donadoni says Parma will play Cagliari to make their season “even more dignified,” while hoping football's institutions won't forget them.
It kicks off at 19.45 UK time (18.45 GMT) on Monday, click here for a match preview.
With only half the points of fourth-from-bottom Atalanta, the Emiliani have already been relegated, but their Coach sees a reason to keep up the fight nonetheless.
Roberto Donadoni says Parma will play Cagliari to make their season “even more dignified,” while hoping football's institutions won't forget them.
It kicks off at 19.45 UK time (18.45 GMT) on Monday, click here for a match preview.
With only half the points of fourth-from-bottom Atalanta, the Emiliani have already been relegated, but their Coach sees a reason to keep up the fight nonetheless.
“Parma go to Cagliari with the spirit of facing an adversary that is also fighting for the bottom positions,” he said in a Press conference.
“We want to try and make this season even more dignified. They'll have the same approach.
“This is the spirit we take into the game – this, and all the events of the week,” he said, in reference to the continued shenanigans around the club's bankruptcy.
The tribunal is expected to give its verdict tomorrow on whether the club can continue to the end of the season or have to wind up immediately.
“All the talk is just a disturbance and it may condition the work we do on the pitch. There are rumours of €20m as incentives for the players to leave the club, but there's never been that kind of money around here.
“We are faced with substantial anomalies and things that are hard to comprehend, which lead everyone to energy-sucking meditations.
“We still have one month – or even less – from here until the end of the championship.
“There's a whole bunch of situations that, on the one hand, make you wish it were already over, and on the other make you wonder how it's going to end, and what solutions will be found for Parma. We can't be selfish.
“As for the football institutions, after a certain direction was taken in terms of policy, their attention has waned.
“I hope it doesn't keep waning to the point that things are handled the way they have been in the past.”
In closing, Donadoni was also able to talk of his team's short-term ambitions.
“The points we made on the pitch were conquered with self-sacrifice and abnegation, so for us it's important to make as many more of them as possible.
“Those who deserve it and have the right drive for this season's end will play, those who are not in these conditions will leave space to the others.”