Michael Armani

Right Wingback - Free Agent
13 Dec 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Michael Armani

12 Edition

The Bra Chronicle

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

No end in sight to Bra's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Bra has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Real improvement from Woody Williamson at Bra

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Woody Williamson is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

Franklyn Akammadu in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bra this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

The goals have deserted Bra

3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Bra can tell you which week it ends in.

Squad

Mattia Pretato 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.

Squad

Damiano Lia falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Alessandro Fiordaliso

A mark of 7.11, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

Match

Bra draw a blank against Pontedera

The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Pontedera defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.

Player ratings

Ismet Sinani runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 10. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

Back issues
6 Edition

The Bra Chronicle

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Riccardo Campedelli goes up and wins it — 7.20

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.20 for the rest of it.

Market

Michael Armani hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Bra can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Franklyn Akammadu in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bra this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Mattia Leoncini

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Match

Bra share the spoils with Perugia

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

Squad

Words at Bra training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Riccardo Campedelli 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.

In brief