Marked for Leandro Trevisan
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad18 Jan 2027
A fracture rules Leandro Trevisan out for 18 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Bra will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match16 Jan 2027
The wait goes on for Bra
8 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Bra have done the hard part with Sassuolo, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Match16 Jan 2027
The goals have deserted Bra
4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Bra can tell you which week it ends in.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
Bra asked and Lazio said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Bra
Alessio Brambilla and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match16 Jan 2027
Bra come up short against Pianese
Pianese left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Words at Bra training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Giorgio Lionetti 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.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
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Crisis
Squad11 Jan 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 26 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market11 Jan 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Bra, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match9 Jan 2027
7 matches without a win for Bra
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Bra are no longer polite ones.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
No thanks: Ivan Smolčić rejects the move
Bra had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Como, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Norman Díaz 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 Bra this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match9 Jan 2027
The goals have deserted Bra
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Bra can tell you which week it ends in.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Parma have kept their man, and Bra go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match9 Jan 2027
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Giorgio Lionetti 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.
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Crisis
The terraces4 Jan 2027
Supporters organise against the Bra board
A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.
Squad4 Jan 2027
33 days out for Leandro Trevisan after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Bra will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match4 Jan 2027
Bra are in real trouble now
Position 18, 13 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Match2 Jan 2027
No end in sight to Bra's wait for a win
6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Bra has to find a result from somewhere.
Boardroom4 Jan 2027
The scrutiny sharpens at Bra
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Bra is running low.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
The deal with Como is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Squad4 Jan 2027
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Bra know it.
Squad4 Jan 2027
At 20 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Bra
Norman Díaz 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.
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Crisis
Squad28 Dec 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 41 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad28 Dec 2026
7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Match26 Dec 2026
No end in sight to Bra's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Bra has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words at Bra training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Franklyn Akammadu 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
A falling-out at Bra
Alessio Brambilla and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
Wages swallow 154% of the Bra income
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
Match26 Dec 2026
A bad afternoon for Bra against Arezzo
0‑2 to Arezzo, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑2 defeat, delivered by Mirko Ferraro to a room that had heard them before.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mattia Leoncini, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Squad21 Dec 2026
A fracture rules Leandro Trevisan out for 48 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Bra will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match19 Dec 2026
The wait goes on for Bra
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words at Bra training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Franklyn Akammadu 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.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match21 Dec 2026
Halfway: Bra sit in position 17
13 points at the turn. The first half of a season is a promise; the second is a bill, and the town is about to find out which of the two this one was.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
The afternoon belonged to Ismet Sinani
A mark of 7.97, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. 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.
Match19 Dec 2026
It needed Ismet Sinani to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Livorno, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
“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.
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Crisis
Squad14 Dec 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 55 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match12 Dec 2026
Ismet Sinani scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Torres, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad14 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Bra
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Giorgio Lionetti was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Bra
Davide Renzetti 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.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“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.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 11. 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 dugout14 Dec 2026
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
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Crisis
Squad7 Dec 2026
63 days out for Leandro Trevisan after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Bra will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match7 Dec 2026
Every point is an argument now for Bra
Position 16 and 12 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Market7 Dec 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Bra, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match5 Dec 2026
Vis Pesaro left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Squad7 Dec 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bra this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Riccardo Campedelli 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.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 13. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Crisis
Squad30 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Leandro Trevisan out for 70 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Bra will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match28 Nov 2026
Sambenedettese left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Bra
Alessio Brambilla and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
Wages eat 146% of everything Bra earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Bra
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Giorgio Lionetti was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Ninety minutes of Enrico Baldini at his very best
Marked 8.01. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Bra.
Squad30 Nov 2026
100 games in this shirt, through managers and relegations and everything else. Service like it is disappearing from the game and the crowd knows what it is watching.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑2 defeat, delivered by Mirko Ferraro to a room that had heard them before.
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Steady
Squad23 Nov 2026
77 days out for Leandro Trevisan after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Bra will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Bra
Norman Díaz and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad23 Nov 2026
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.
Match21 Nov 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Ismet Sinani. 1‑0 against Pineto, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Giorgio Lionetti, and the manager let it.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Marked 7.99 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Bra had the best player on the pitch.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Mirko Ferraro on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 13. 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.
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Uneasy
Squad16 Nov 2026
86 days out for Leandro Trevisan after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Bra will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Norman Díaz 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 Bra this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad16 Nov 2026
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.
Match14 Nov 2026
A point taken on 87 minutes is worth exactly one point and considerably more than that to a dressing room. This side does not stop, which is a reputation worth more than the result.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jonathan Monsalve, and the manager let it.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
Match14 Nov 2026
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Mirko Ferraro chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Uneasy
Squad9 Nov 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 93 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match9 Nov 2026
Bra sink to position 18
8 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Match7 Nov 2026
Bra win it in stoppage time
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 93th minute. Carpi will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Ismet Sinani takes the match ball home
3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Market9 Nov 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Bra can pretend not to have heard.
Match7 Nov 2026
The drought breaks for Bra
7 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Carpi were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Marked 9.58 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Match7 Nov 2026
It finished 3‑2, and it was Ismet Sinani’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Bra.
Squad9 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bra this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Crisis
Squad2 Nov 2026
101 days out for Leandro Trevisan after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Bra will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 9 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match31 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Bra
7 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match31 Oct 2026
Bra cannot find the net
4 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Bra
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Franklyn Akammadu was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
Wages swallow 146% of the Bra income
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
The terraces2 Nov 2026
At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ismet Sinani, and the manager let it.
Match31 Oct 2026
Ravenna take the points off Bra
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
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Crisis
Squad26 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 108 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match24 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Bra
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match24 Oct 2026
The goals have deserted Bra
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Bra can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad26 Oct 2026
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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“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.
Match24 Oct 2026
Forli take the points off Bra
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Bra are still strangers to each other
11 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Mirko Ferraro left the room before anybody could ask which.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Bra
Davide Renzetti and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
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Crisis
Squad19 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 116 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match17 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Bra's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Bra has to find a result from somewhere.
Match17 Oct 2026
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Bra
Davide Renzetti 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Riccardo Campedelli 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.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“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.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The plan did not have a place for Gustavo Mosquera
Nobody at Bra is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
Looking ahead19 Oct 2026
Forli next, and one man in the Bra dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.