Yet it has seldom seen festivities to match the ones on its streets on Friday night as fans of the local football team celebrated a fairytale promotion to Italy's Serie A.It's been an extraordinary resurrection for a club which went bankrupt and, as recently as 2019, was playing in the fourth tier."It's going to be a big challenge but a challenge that we'll be ready for," said a delighted caretaker head coach Osian Roberts.
A football hotbed it may not be. But the thousands who cram into their small stadium would have you believing otherwise. On Friday it was shaking as the locals roared their team over the line.has won virtually all there is to win in the game. A part-owner of the club since 2022, he stepped up from his role as reserve-team coach when the club sacked Moreno Longo.
Former CEO Dennis Wise and World Cup winner Gianluca Zambrotta, a former Como player, were among the sell-out 7,500 crowd on Friday night for the visit of Cosenza. Wise had even invited Jamie and Rebekah Vardy along. When they squandered a host of good chances at the start of the second half the feeling grew that it might not be Como's night.