Isac Galván

Striker - Cavese
19 Dec 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Isac Galván

20 Edition

The Cavese Sentinel

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Leonardo Ubaldi 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 Cavese can pretend not to have heard.

Match

The wait goes on for Cavese

7 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

Tempers go at Cavese

Alessio Luciani 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.

Player ratings

Nothing got past Manuel Peretti

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 20 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Player ratings

Giuseppe Fella runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

Theophilus Awua takes the honours

Marked 7.61 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Cavese had the best player on the pitch.

Player ratings

A defender's afternoon for Alessio Luciani

Defensive actions: 15. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Squad

Leonardo Ubaldi 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 Cavese, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Squad

No hiding place for Daniele Bolcano

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Daniele Bolcano, and the manager let it.

In brief

Back issues
19 Edition

The Cavese Sentinel

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Isac Galván says Cavese 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.

Squad

Alessio Luciani 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 Cavese this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Gerardo Fusco stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Gerardo Fusco and Cavese agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

In brief

17 Edition

The Cavese Sentinel

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Cavese are in real trouble now

Position 17, 10 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Market

Isac Galván asks to leave Cavese

“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.

Match

The wait goes on for Cavese

5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Giuseppe Fella

Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Giuseppe Fella 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 Cavese this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Isac Galván 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 Cavese know it.

In brief

9 Edition

The Cavese Sentinel

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

The small margins put Cavese out

Out, 0‑2 to Trapani, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Squad

Alessio Luciani 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 Cavese this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

One of those days for Francesco Orlando

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.13, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Match

Francesco Orlando the difference as Cavese beat Cosenza

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Francesco Orlando. 2‑1 against Cosenza, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Leonardo Ubaldi

Marked 8.77 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Squad

Anass Achahbar 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.

Player ratings

Julien Bègue runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

The one thing Gerardo Fusco could not do

Shots: 8, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.

Squad

Filippo Galafassi makes his debut at 20

At 20 years old, Filippo Galafassi became the latest name off the academy production line to be handed a senior shirt.

In brief