The Spezia Gazette
Squad31 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Luca Vignali
17 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Spezia lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Spezia
Petko Hristov 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Spezia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Aleš Matějů is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Petko Hristov 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Spezia come up short against Juve Stabia
Juve Stabia left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Market31 Aug 2026
Trapani are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Spezia will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Noah Fernandez runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market31 Aug 2026
Spezia bring in an old head
Mazinho is 37 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.
Market31 Aug 2026
Spezia bring in an old head
Laércio is 33 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.