Antonio Badini

Central Defender - Renate
18 Sep 2028
Monday
Process

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111 Edition

The Virtus Entella Gazette

11 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Luigi Cuppone damages knee ligaments — 101 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 101 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market

Davide Castelli is on his way

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

Squad

Luca Parodi keeps the receipts

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

Match

6 matches without a win for Virtus Entella

The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Virtus Entella are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Words at Virtus Entella training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alieu Fadera 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Virtus Entella

Leonardo Benedetti 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.

Player ratings

A defender's afternoon for Reda Belahyane

Defensive actions: 17. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Bernat Guiu

Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Loan watch

Antonio Badini counts the days

“I watch every Virtus Entella game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Renate runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

In brief

Back issues
107 Edition

The Renate Post

14 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Real improvement from Nazarii Mikliash at Renate

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Nazarii Mikliash is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

Tempers go at Renate

Federico Ceccherini 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

Andrea Delcarro has improved at 35, 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.

In brief