Alessandro Berretta

Defensive Midfielder - Free Agent
23 Oct 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Alessandro Berretta

45 Edition

The Pergolettese Sentinel

7 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

Franco Morelli has until the next board meeting

What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Pergolettese can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.

The terraces

Anger at Pergolettese spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Market

Mattia Capoferri 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 Pergolettese can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Samuele Careccia 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 Pergolettese this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Samuele Careccia

“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

A row about effort at Pergolettese

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

Transfer targets

Pergolettese try to borrow Andrea Luongo

Torino have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Squad

A place in the month's best eleven for Alessandro Berretta

Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Alessandro Berretta has come out of that comparison in the side, and Pergolettese have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.

The dugout

Cristian Dell'Orco loses the manager who believed in him

A change in the dugout is not one story, it is twenty-five of them. This is Cristian Dell'Orco's: he was somebody's player, and now he has to be somebody else's, starting from nothing.

In brief

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21 Edition

The Pergolettese Sentinel

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Lorenzo Cordaro stands alone

6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

The dugout

Alessandro Berretta: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Pergolettese have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

A falling-out at Pergolettese

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

Match

6 unbeaten for Pergolettese

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Pergolettese did not have in the autumn.

Squad

Words at Pergolettese training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alessandro Lambrughi 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

Honours even between Pergolettese and Trento

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Franco Morelli was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the Pergolettese dressing room was either.

Looking ahead

Luca Milesi goes back to face Pro Vercelli

Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Luca Milesi’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Pergolettese needing him to play as if none of it matters.

The dugout

Luca Milesi knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Pergolettese, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief