The Alcione Milano Herald
Market21 Aug 2028
Luca Zamparo asks to leave Alcione Milano
“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.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Umberto Galletta is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 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.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Franco Carboni 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 Alcione Milano this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Giorgio Galli has improved at 32, 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. 4 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Boardroom21 Aug 2028
Graduation day at Alcione Milano
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Market21 Aug 2028
Alcione Milano promote Mirko Trevisan from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Mirko Trevisan 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.
Market21 Aug 2028
One of our own: Samuele Bertolini joins the Alcione Milano first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Samuele Bertolini is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market21 Aug 2028
Alcione Milano promote Valerio Chiari from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Valerio Chiari 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.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Mattia Tordini 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
- Boardroom Alcione Milano board go back on their word
- Boardroom Alcione Milano turn down the training-ground plan
- Boardroom Alcione Milano keep producing them