The Carrarese Sentinel
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Reda Belahyane turns down Carrarese
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Lazio keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Matthias Braunöder 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 Carrarese this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Fabio Abiuso signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Fabio Abiuso commits to Carrarese for another 4 years.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Carrarese rebuffed over Fabricio Iacovich
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Estudiantes have kept their man, and Carrarese go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Jacopo Marchetti joins the Carrarese first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Jacopo Marchetti is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Massimo Piccini steps up from the Carrarese academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Massimo Piccini has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
Carrarese promote Gregorio Ranieri from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Gregorio Ranieri has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
Carrarese promote Pierpaolo Costantini from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Pierpaolo Costantini has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Gonçalo Esteves 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.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Stefano Mazzini
- Squad Nicholas Bonfanti walks taller at Carrarese