The Siracusa Courier
Match3 Oct 2026
Siracusa taken apart
0‑3 to Potenza, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Real improvement from Bryan Bonucci at Siracusa
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Bryan Bonucci is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Siracusa
Alessandro Farroni 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
3 matches without a goal for Siracusa
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages eat 119% of everything Siracusa earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
No hiding place for Federico Pacciardi
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Federico Pacciardi, and the manager let it.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Nobody left the Siracusa dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Sebastiano Verdi answers for it
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑3, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Mattia Puzone
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Mattia Puzone has come out of that comparison in the side, and Siracusa have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
In brief
- Squad Siracusa take the armband off Filippo Damian
- The dugout Jacopo Simonetta does not fit this one
- Player ratings Maiko Candiano runs at them all day