Afonso Freitas

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Pro Vercelli
22 Jan 2027
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Process

Marked for Afonso Freitas

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The Pro Vercelli Post

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Nicolò Vaccarezza agrees terms with Campobasso

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Pro Vercelli people have started saying his name in the past tense.

The dugout

Ouseynou Sow keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Pro Vercelli may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Match

The run is over for Pro Vercelli

9 matches without defeat, and then Triestina. Nobody at the ground pretended it would go on forever; nobody expected it to stop here either.

Match

The wait goes on for Pro Vercelli

4 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.

Match

The goals have deserted Pro Vercelli

4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Pro Vercelli can tell you which week it ends in.

Squad

Gianmario Comi 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 Pro Vercelli this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Afonso Freitas 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. Afonso Freitas has, at Pro Vercelli, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Market

Sampdoria join the queue for Antonio Satriano

Add another name to the list: Sampdoria have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Antonio Satriano. The answer from Pro Vercelli has not changed — yet.

Squad

A row about effort at Pro Vercelli

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

In brief