The Vicenza Courier
Squad11 Jan 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Daniel Cappelletti
114 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Vicenza lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match11 Jan 2027
Vicenza refuse to drop out of the race
Position 2, 32 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
Nothing got past Giuseppe Cuomo
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 26 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Squad11 Jan 2027
A move Luca Gobbo would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Luca Gobbo is living that version at Vicenza, and it tends to show in the first month.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
Nothing got past Raul Talarico
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 24 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Riccardo Gagno 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 Vicenza this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market11 Jan 2027
Picerno watching Daniel Cappelletti
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Vicenza have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Mattia Vitale falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Boardroom11 Jan 2027
Vicenza agree a free transfer for Gianluca Saddi
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
In brief
- Match Vicenza get the job done against Arzignano
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Gabriele Bertolini
- Market Forli are about to pick up the phone