The Alcione Milano Herald
Squad24 Apr 2028
A knee injury of the worst kind for Sandro Barone
18 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Alcione Milano lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings24 Apr 2028
Vintage Patrick Ciurria — 8.24
At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.24, and nobody on the pitch better.
Match22 Apr 2028
Alcione Milano make home a hard place to visit
9 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Squad24 Apr 2028
A row about effort at Alcione Milano
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Flavio Paoletti was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match18 Apr 2028
Alcione Milano see off Triestina
Three points for Alcione Milano, 2‑0 the final word against Triestina in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings24 Apr 2028
Lucio Garberi beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 19. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout24 Apr 2028
The manager makes an example of Daniel Acosta
“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 dugout24 Apr 2028
Cesare Benedetti on the point
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Cesare Benedetti after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
Squad24 Apr 2028
A ban for Patrick Ciurria
One booking too many, and a game watched from the stand. Alcione Milano lose him for the most avoidable reason in the sport.
In brief
- The dugout Andrea Invernizzi gets picked when it counts
- Match Alcione Milano and Pro Patria cancel each other out
- Market The Simone Palombi talk will not go away