The Catanzaro Courier
Squad18 Jan 2027
9 saves: Mirko Pigliacelli was the team
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 9 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
Simone Pafundi, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 8.16
A mark of 8.16 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad18 Jan 2027
A falling-out at Catanzaro
Mirko Pigliacelli and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad18 Jan 2027
David Stabile arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. David Stabile has, at Catanzaro, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Words at Catanzaro training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jacopo Petriccione 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.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
Door shut on Davide Guglielmotti
Catanzaro asked and Union Brescia said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
No hiding place for Fabio Tito
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Fabio Tito, and the manager let it.
Market18 Jan 2027
N'dri Philippe Koffi told to find a new club
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” N'dri Philippe Koffi has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Catanzaro.
Market18 Jan 2027
A long bet from Catanzaro on David Stabile
He is 20, and nobody at Catanzaro signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
In brief
- Match Simone Pafundi rescues a point for Catanzaro
- The dugout The manager’s verdict
- The dugout When it matters, Matias Antonini plays