Davide La Commare

Central Defender - Bra
17 Sep 2028
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The Bra Chronicle

8 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Jacopo Sassi

19 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Bra lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

Bra bow out of the cup

AC Milan go through and Bra go home, 0‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

Squad

Dino Mehic 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 Bra this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A move Davide La Commare 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. Davide La Commare is living that version at Bra, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad

Eid Al-Hammadi 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.

Player ratings

Mattia Leoncini was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.06. 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.

Market

A long bet from Bra on Alessandro Mezzapesa

He is 19, and nobody at Bra signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

Match

Bra and Carpi take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

Market

Still no ink between Bra and Samuel Cuka

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Bra, another week without a signature from Samuel Cuka.

In brief

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The Trapani Gazette

26 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

The terraces

The mood at Trapani has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Squad

Tempers go at Trapani

Federico Vázquez 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.

Squad

Words at Trapani training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Enrico Celeghin 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.

Boardroom

Trapani beat the market to Tyler Young from Siracusa

Siracusa will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Tyler Young has pre-agreed a move to Trapani, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.

Squad

Cristian Bunino has improved at 30, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

Squad

No hiding place for Pasqualino Ortisi

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Pasqualino Ortisi, and the manager let it.

In brief