Enzo Borgarelli

Striker - Trento
28 Aug 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Enzo Borgarelli

53 Edition

The Trento Courier

2 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

The dugout

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Market

Enzo Borgarelli asks to leave Trento

“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.

Squad

Tempers go at Trento

Nicola Dalmonte 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 dugout

The manager makes an example of Filippo Frison

“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.

Squad

A step back for Santiago Kojro at Trento

Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.

Market

No place for Marco Rossello in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Marco Rossello has his answer from Trento; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

The dugout

Francesco Benassai knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Francesco Benassai trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market

Christian Aucelli linked with a move away

The name of Christian Aucelli keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Trento say nothing, which says plenty.

The dugout

When it matters, Andrea Sodero plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

In brief

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Squad

Pasquale Giannotti 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 Trento this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Francesco Costantini is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Valentín Luciani

Trento asked and Fenix said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Enzo Borgarelli wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Trento can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

Transfer targets

Trento try to borrow Gabriel Silva

Sporting CP have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

The dugout

When it matters, Pietro Candelari plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Squad

Words at Trento training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andrea Sodero 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.

Market

The Luca Lipani question follows Trento around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Luca Lipani’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Match

Trento in the hunt for Europe

Position 4, 66 points, and a run-in that decides whether next season has Thursday nights in it. Nobody is calling it a race yet, which is what people say during one.

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Market

Zylyf Muça asks to leave Trento

“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.

Market

Zylyf Muça is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Trento is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Pietro Candelari 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 Trento this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

Andrea Trainotti 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.

Squad

Home is on Enzo Borgarelli's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Trento are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

The dugout

When it matters, Pietro Candelari plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Squad

A row about effort at Trento

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

Squad

Jacopo Pellegrini named player of the week

One weekend, judged against everybody else's. Jacopo Pellegrini has come out on top of it, and for most footballers a weekly award is the only silverware a career ever produces.

The dugout

Filippo Frison knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Filippo Frison trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

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Player ratings

Nobody could get near Pietro Candelari

Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Tempers go at Trento

Pietro Candelari 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Trento against Union Brescia

0‑1 to Union Brescia, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Home is on Enzo Borgarelli's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Trento are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

The dugout

Domenico Lucchesi faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Domenico Lucchesi after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

The dugout

Pietro Candelari gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Pietro Candelari is on it.

The dugout

No hiding place for Federico Caia

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

Squad

Words at Trento training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andrea Sodero 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.

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Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Andrea Trainotti

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

Match

Trento refuse to drop out of the race

Position 3, 34 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Player ratings

Pietro Candelari, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.64

A mark of 7.64 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad

Christian Aucelli 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.

Match

Mattia Maffei the difference as Trento beat Pergolettese

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Mattia Maffei. 2‑1 against Pergolettese, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

The terraces

Trento supporters have found a favourite in Andrea Sodero

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Andrea Sodero has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Mattia Maffei at his very best

Marked 8.24. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Trento.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Christian Aucelli at his very best

Marked 8.11. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Trento.

Squad

Christian Aucelli is carrying Trento

8 goals and a season average of 7.26. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

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Player ratings

Up for the corner, and Marco Fossati delivers — 7.64

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Marco Fossati scored, was marked 7.64, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Player ratings

Pasquale Giannotti runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Words exchanged at Trento

Pasquale Giannotti and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

Christian Aucelli 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.

Match

Marco Fossati the difference as Trento beat Alcione Milano

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Marco Fossati. 2‑0 against Alcione Milano, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Christian Aucelli at his very best

Marked 8.20. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Trento.

Player ratings

Jacopo Pellegrini in the eights

A performance of 8.10 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

The dugout

No hiding place for Christian Capone

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

Squad

Enzo Borgarelli wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Trento can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

In brief

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Market

Trento turn down KR for Federico Caia

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market

Zylyf Muça asks to leave Trento

“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.

Squad

Tempers go at Trento

Nicola Dalmonte 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.

Transfer targets

Too dear: Trento walk away from Lorenzo Lombardi

$120.0K was the most the club would pay and Carpi were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Alin Kumer Čelik

Trento asked and Genoa said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Words at Trento training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Christian Capone 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

Trento say no to the training-ground money

The plan went upstairs and came back down. Nothing about that will make a headline anywhere else, and everybody who works at the training ground will remember it for years.

Squad

The formation has left Enzo Borgarelli behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Trento will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

Squad

Enzo Borgarelli remains an outsider

A year in and the city has not opened up, the language has not come, and lunch is eaten alone more often than anybody at Trento would admit. It shows on Saturdays.

In brief

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Transfer targets

Too dear: Trento walk away from Rosen Bozhinov

$4.8M was the most the club would pay and Pisa were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Market

Eyes on Federico Caia again

The phone has started ringing about Federico Caia again, and this time the name on the line is KR. Trento are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad

A falling-out at Trento

Pietro Candelari and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets

Trento make their move for Lorenzo Lombardi

$96.0K on the table at Carpi. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Squad

Enzo Borgarelli 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. Enzo Borgarelli has, at Trento, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Transfer targets

Cosenza tell Trento: Andrea Cogoni is not for sale

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.

In brief