William Abbriano

Defensive Midfielder - Spezia
14 Mar 2032
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The Spezia Gazette

1 Dec 2031
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom1 Dec 2031

Pressure builds in the Spezia boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Squad1 Dec 2031

Manuele Margiotta keeps Spezia in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad1 Dec 2031

44 days out for Bercy Langa Lessé after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Spezia will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market1 Dec 2031

Iván Sandoval puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Spezia, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout1 Dec 2031

William Abbriano: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Spezia have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Player ratings1 Dec 2031

Emanuele Scipioni was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 25. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Squad1 Dec 2031

A row about effort at Spezia

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Fabio Miretti was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match29 Nov 2031

Parma take the points off Spezia

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout1 Dec 2031

Damián Pizarro 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.

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The Spezia Gazette

25 Aug 2031
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match23 Aug 2031

The wait goes on for Spezia

13 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.

Squad25 Aug 2031

Aleš Matějů breaks a bone — 106 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 106 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Transfer targets25 Aug 2031

$4.2M settles it between the clubs for Pietro Passador

Pro Vercelli have accepted the money. What Spezia do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.

Market25 Aug 2031

Ibrahim Abdelhakim 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 Spezia can pretend not to have heard.

The dugout25 Aug 2031

Eugen Ciban says Spezia 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 ratings25 Aug 2031

Emanuele Scipioni runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Transfer targets25 Aug 2031

Spezia rebuffed over David Stückler

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

Squad25 Aug 2031

A move William Abbriano 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. William Abbriano is living that version at Spezia, and it tends to show in the first month.

Market25 Aug 2031

Ibrahim Abdelhakim has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Spezia they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

In brief