Edoardo Borrelli

Goalkeeper - Catanzaro
7 Mar 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Edoardo Borrelli

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The Catanzaro Courier

22 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

27 days out for Nikola Moro after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Catanzaro will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Squad

Words at Catanzaro training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marco Ruggero 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.

Match

Catanzaro come up short against Modena

Modena left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

A falling-out at Catanzaro

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

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Marco Ruggero

“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.

Squad

Diego Andrada wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Catanzaro know it.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑3 Gerardo De Carli left the room before anybody could ask which.

Market

Edoardo Borrelli told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Edoardo Borrelli has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Catanzaro.

Looking ahead

A reunion for Antonio Candela

He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Empoli in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.

In brief

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The Catanzaro Courier

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

$140.0K settles it between the clubs for Riccardo Paonessa

Juventus have accepted the money. What Catanzaro do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.

Market

Fehervar come back empty-handed

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

Squad

The step up is real for Edoardo Borrelli

At 22 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Squad

A row about effort at Catanzaro

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Marco Ruggero was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Iván López

Catanzaro asked and Juventus said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market

Matias Antonini is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Catanzaro has been clear about where Matias Antonini stands, which is more than many ever get.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Patrick Nuamah

Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The dugout

No hiding place for Nicola Mosti

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

The dugout

Mirko Pigliacelli has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Catanzaro will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief