Antonio Rocco

Central Defender - Aalborg
21 Oct 2035
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The Aalborg Gazette

2 Jul 2035
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Jakub Jakubko breaks a bone — 65 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 65 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Boardroom

Felix Otto has until the next board meeting

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

Boardroom

The Aalborg board call everybody in

Nothing has been announced and everybody understands what it means. A board that summons the whole football department on a Tuesday morning is a board that has stopped believing the problem will fix itself.

Market

Giacomo Arduini is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Aalborg is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Market

Luigi Spinelli asks to leave Aalborg

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Boardroom

Marinus Bach signs for Brondby while still at Aalborg

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Marinus Bach has agreed terms with Brondby for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Squad

Tempers go at Aalborg

Michele Besaggio was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Alexander Håpnes stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Alexander Håpnes and Aalborg agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Words at Aalborg training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Elías Pereyra 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

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The Arzignano Post

20 Mar 2034
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Adrian Šemper

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

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Filippo Manfrin

There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Match

Arzignano are in among the leaders

Position 3 and 51 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Match

Arzignano make it 5 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Arzignano have 5 straight wins of it.

Squad

Federico Ragnoli Galli is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.26 with 23 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Squad

Antonio Rocco says Arzignano went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Matteo Del Gaudio at his very best

Marked 8.80. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Arzignano.

Match

Arzignano get the job done against Novara

A 2‑0 win over Novara, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Match

Another one collected away from home

3 on the bounce on the road for Arzignano. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.

In brief