The Bra Chronicle
Squad18 Oct 2027
A falling-out at Bra
Lorenzo Lancellotti and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad18 Oct 2027
Franklyn Akammadu 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.
Match16 Oct 2027
Bra rescue it on 95 minutes
Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 95. Pontedera had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.
Squad18 Oct 2027
Bra count the cost of losing Alessio Botti
18 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
The dugout18 Oct 2027
A promise honoured for Ismet Sinani
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Bra told Ismet Sinani something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
Match16 Oct 2027
Stefano Tuzza rescues a point for Bra
It needed Stefano Tuzza to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Pontedera, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The dugout18 Oct 2027
Leandro Ruiz 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.
Player ratings18 Oct 2027
Damiano Lia was unplayable
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 dugout18 Oct 2027
Manuel Marino: “We have to be better”
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 1‑1 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
In brief
- Looking ahead Franklyn Akammadu faces his old club
- The dugout Mattia Leoncini asks for a word with the manager
- Market The Franklyn Akammadu talk will not go away