Nicolás

Goalkeeper - Retired
8 Jul 2028
Saturday
Process

Marked for Nicolás

31 Edition

The Pisa Sentinel

1 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Lorran, 20, steals the show — 8.02

Marked 8.02 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Player ratings

Both jobs done by Adrian Lahdo — 6.97

A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 19 actions, 6.97, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.

Squad

Home is on Filip Stojilković's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Pisa are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Squad

Words exchanged at Pisa

Felipe Loyola and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Lorran

At 20 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

The dugout

No hiding place for Gabriele Piccinini

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Gabriele Piccinini, and the manager let it.

Squad

Nicolás wants one last season at home

Every long career reaches the week the last one is thought about. He would like it to be where he started, and Pisa know now that the thought has arrived.

Match

Pisa share the spoils with Arezzo

A 1‑1 draw with Arezzo leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Raffaele Ricci was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the Pisa dressing room was either.

In brief

Back issues
27 Edition

The Pisa Sentinel

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Both of them Andrea Petagna's — 8.94

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.94, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Market

St. Gallen come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Pisa did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

6 saves: Simone Scuffet was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Lorenzo De Leo

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Pisa have done the hard part with Renate, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Market

Nicolás puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Pisa, and it is not being withdrawn.

Boardroom

Pisa close the window on a squad of their own making

8 in and 4 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.

Market

Felipe Loyola wants more than Pisa are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Squad

Words exchanged at Pisa

Felipe Loyola and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

A move Eskimó would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Eskimó is living that version at Pisa, and it tends to show in the first month.

In brief

16 Edition

The Pisa Sentinel

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A falling-out at Pisa

Felipe Loyola and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Loan watch

Rosen Bozhinov counts the days

“I watch every Pisa game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Frosinone runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

The dugout

The manager has not finished forgetting Antonio Caracciolo's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

The dugout

Alessandro Confente gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

The dugout

When it matters, Francesco Coppola plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Market

Filip Stojilković linked with a move away

The name of Filip Stojilković keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Pisa say nothing, which says plenty.

Looking ahead

Filippo Pittarello goes back to face Cesena

Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Filippo Pittarello’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Pisa needing him to play as if none of it matters.

Loan watch

5 goals on loan for Jan Mlakar

13 appearances at NK Maribor and the goals keep coming. Pisa are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.

The dugout

The manager makes Filippo Pittarello a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Pisa. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

In brief

3 Edition

The Pisa Sentinel

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Pisa turn down Udinese for Felipe Loyola

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

Tempers go at Pisa

Filip Stojilković was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

A season on the outside for Omar Correia

He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Pisa has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.

In brief