Pietro Pinelli

Central Midfielder - Casertana
7 Nov 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Pietro Pinelli

64 Edition

The Casertana Gazette

18 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Up for the corner, and Federico Proia delivers — 7.91

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Federico Proia scored, was marked 7.91, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Squad

A falling-out at Casertana

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

Match

Michele Vano sends Casertana past Altamura

It finished 2‑1, and it was Michele Vano’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Casertana.

Squad

Gabriele Rocchi makes it 200

200 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Pietro Pinelli

“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

Cristian Lo Zito signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Cristian Lo Zito commits to Casertana for another 3 years.

The dugout

Riccardo Iannuzzi: “That is the standard”

“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 2‑1, already talking about the next one.

Player ratings

Giulio Favale runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 12. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Looking ahead

Filippo Lorenzini faces his old club

Picerno next, and one man in the Casertana dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

In brief

Back issues
60 Edition

The Casertana Gazette

20 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout

Arvid Brorsson keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Casertana may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Player ratings

Federico Proia pops up at the right end — 7.58

7.58, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.

Squad

Goal number 100 for Jacopo Manconi

100 goals in these colours now, every one of them somebody’s memory. There is a supporter in the stand who can tell you where he was for most of them.

Transfer targets

Casertana rebuffed over Niccolò Pierozzi

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Palermo have kept their man, and Casertana go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

The dugout

Victor De Lucia 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

Filippo Lorenzini 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 Casertana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Casertana share the spoils with Catania

A 2‑2 draw with Catania leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

The dugout

Half-satisfied: Riccardo Iannuzzi on the draw

“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 2‑2, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.

Squad

Pietro Pinelli wants out of the dugout

“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and Casertana will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.

In brief