Marked for Wiktor Chudy
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Steady
Squad10 Jan 2028
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Vis Pesaro will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Transfer targets10 Jan 2028
$1.8M settles it between the clubs for John Yeboah
Venezia have accepted the money. What Vis Pesaro do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Player ratings10 Jan 2028
Two goals and a mark of 8.02 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Transfer targets10 Jan 2028
The deal with Cavese is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Player ratings10 Jan 2028
Successful dribbles: 23. 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.
Transfer targets10 Jan 2028
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad10 Jan 2028
Words at Vis Pesaro training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Federico Casolari 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.
Player ratings10 Jan 2028
Massimo Forte did the work nobody counts — 7.46
12 combined actions and 7.46. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
The terraces10 Jan 2028
At 20 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
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Player ratings20 Dec 2027
Manuel Di Paola pops up at the right end — 7.78
7.78, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Squad20 Dec 2027
Francesco Nicastro 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.
The dugout20 Dec 2027
“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.
Match18 Dec 2027
It finished 1‑0, and it was Manuel Di Paola’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Vis Pesaro.
The dugout20 Dec 2027
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
The dugout20 Dec 2027
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Leandro Bianco could afford to be generous.
Squad20 Dec 2027
A row about effort at Vis Pesaro
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Danilo Petriccione was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad20 Dec 2027
A booking nobody needed, on a night the game was already won. Vis Pesaro lose a player for the most avoidable reason there is.
Player ratings20 Dec 2027
Successful dribbles: 12. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Match23 Oct 2027
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 15 matches without defeat is a foundation Vis Pesaro did not have in the autumn.
Squad25 Oct 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Vis Pesaro this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match23 Oct 2027
Another one collected away from home
3 on the bounce on the road for Vis Pesaro. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.
Match23 Oct 2027
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Sulayman Jallow. 1‑0 against Sambenedettese, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad25 Oct 2027
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Vis Pesaro can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
The dugout25 Oct 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Michele Rigione, and the manager let it.
Player ratings25 Oct 2027
Marked 7.41 on 9 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.
Squad25 Oct 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Wiktor Chudy and Vis Pesaro agree another 4 years.
Player ratings25 Oct 2027
7.82, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Vis Pesaro had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
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Match22 Sep 2027
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Wiktor Chudy obliged against Lumezzane. 2‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Vis Pesaro.
Match25 Sep 2027
Still nobody has beaten Vis Pesaro
The unbeaten run reaches 12. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Player ratings27 Sep 2027
Wiktor Chudy, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.66
A mark of 7.66 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.
Player ratings27 Sep 2027
At 35 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.10, and nobody on the pitch better.
The terraces27 Sep 2027
He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
The dugout27 Sep 2027
The manager makes an example of Alessio Pozzi
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings27 Sep 2027
Massimo Forte was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.28. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad27 Sep 2027
A row about effort at Vis Pesaro
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Tomás Lezcano was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad27 Sep 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Kristiyan Ivanov commits to Vis Pesaro for another 3 years.
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Market9 Aug 2027
“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 Vis Pesaro, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market9 Aug 2027
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Vis Pesaro people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Transfer targets9 Aug 2027
Vis Pesaro asked and Juve Stabia said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Words at Vis Pesaro training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tomás Lezcano 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.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Vis Pesaro are still strangers to each other
11 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
Squad9 Aug 2027
The shrug has gone, the language is coming, and he now argues in training like somebody who expects to be here next year. Half a signing's value is this and none of it appears on a fee.
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Crisis
Market2 Nov 2026
“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.
Match31 Oct 2026
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Leandro Bianco after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Denis Tonucci's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Market2 Nov 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Wiktor Chudy has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Vis Pesaro.
Squad2 Nov 2026
The captaincy has been taken off Manuel Di Paola. Vis Pesaro will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Marked 4.59. Nothing he attempted worked and by the hour mark he had stopped attempting much, which is the part a manager notices rather than the mistakes.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Amadou Konaté, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Match17 Oct 2026
7 matches without a win for Vis Pesaro
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Vis Pesaro are no longer polite ones.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Alessandro Ventre is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Alessandro Ventre 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. 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.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 1‑1, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Nobody at Vis Pesaro is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
Looking ahead19 Oct 2026
Sambenedettese next, and one man in the Vis Pesaro dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.