The Latina Chronicle
Squad21 Aug 2028
Riccardo Campedelli damages knee ligaments — 19 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 19 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.
Match21 Aug 2028
Latina up to position 1
70 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Mirco Moretti gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Mirco Moretti has just signed for Latina, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Real improvement from Maurizio Scravaglieri at Latina
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Maurizio Scravaglieri is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad21 Aug 2028
A late step up for Emanuel Ercolano
At 25 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 5 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
Boardroom21 Aug 2028
Graduation day at Latina
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
Latina promote Lorenzo Ceccarelli from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Lorenzo Ceccarelli 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
Latina promote Alessandro Palumbo from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Alessandro Palumbo 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
Andrea D'Amico steps up from the Latina academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Andrea D'Amico 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.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Franco Greco joins the Latina first team
- Boardroom Latina board go back on their word
- Boardroom Latina turn down the training-ground plan