The Catanzaro Courier
Squad22 Feb 2027
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.
Squad22 Feb 2027
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.
Match20 Feb 2027
Catanzaro come up short against Modena
Modena left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad22 Feb 2027
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 dugout22 Feb 2027
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.
Squad22 Feb 2027
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 dugout22 Feb 2027
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.
Market22 Feb 2027
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 ahead22 Feb 2027
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
- Market The Emanuele Pecorino story refuses to die
- The dugout Nicolò Brighenti does not fit this one
- The dugout When it matters, Ruggero Frosinini plays