The Venezia Chronicle
Match1 May 2027
Nobody wins at Venezia
19 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Match1 May 2027
Whatever happens, Venezia do not lose
6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad3 May 2027
Words at Venezia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Simon Sohm 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.
Match1 May 2027
The run is over for Venezia
5 matches without defeat, and then Reggiana. Nobody at the ground pretended it would go on forever; nobody expected it to stop here either.
Squad3 May 2027
Jacopo Mazzarotto signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Jacopo Mazzarotto commits to Venezia for another 4 years.
Player ratings3 May 2027
Nobody could get near Kike Pérez
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout3 May 2027
The manager makes an example of Jarol Heritier
“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.
Squad3 May 2027
Masoud Fahed 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 Venezia know it.
Squad3 May 2027
Alessandro Pietrelli 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 Venezia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
In brief
- The dugout Toma Bašić left out for the big one
- Player ratings Akor Adams keeps on missing
- The dugout Nicolò Vignali: “We have to be better”