Emerick Lopes

Central Midfielder - Alcione Milano
18 Dec 2026
Friday
Process

Marked for Emerick Lopes

11 Edition

The Alcione Milano Herald

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Hugo Constant damages knee ligaments — 30 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 30 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Loan watch

Marco Melchionda wants to come home

“I did not go to Altamura to sit and watch. I want to come back to Alcione Milano and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.

Squad

Daniele Ciappellano 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 Alcione Milano this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Alcione Milano count the cost of losing Giuseppe De Carli

24 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Market

Talks stall between Alcione Milano and Filippo Pirola

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

Squad

Alcione Milano are still strangers to each other

9 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Emerick Lopes

“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.

The dugout

Filippo Bertolotti gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Filippo Bertolotti is on it.

Looking ahead

A reunion for Filippo Pirola

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

In brief

Back issues
8 Edition

The Alcione Milano Herald

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Hugo Constant

51 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Alcione Milano lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

The step up is real for Nicolò Holovko

At 18 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Alcione Milano against Union Brescia

0‑2 to Union Brescia, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout

Giorgio Galli 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

Emerick Lopes 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 Alcione Milano this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑2 defeat, delivered by Raffaele De Angelis to a room that had heard them before.

The dugout

Hugo Constant does not fit this one

Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Simone Palombi

Successful dribbles: 9. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The dugout

Armando Miculi wants a proper job in this side

Shifted about, taken off before the hour, asked to do somebody else's running — Armando Miculi has had enough of being useful and would like to be picked. Alcione Milano know, and have known for weeks.

In brief

1 Edition

The Alcione Milano Herald

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Mattia Muroni signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Mattia Muroni and Alcione Milano agree another 3 years.

Transfer targets

Porto tell Alcione Milano: Diogo Fernandes is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad

Words exchanged at Alcione Milano

Emerick Lopes 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.

Market

Talks stall between Alcione Milano and Kevin Bright

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

Market

Nobody at Alcione Milano has picked up the phone to Mattia Muroni

36 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.

Squad

Words at Alcione Milano training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Daniele Ciappellano 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