Marco Testa

Right Midfielder - Latina U18
21 Feb 2028
Monday
Process

Marked for Marco Testa

81 Edition

The Latina Chronicle

14 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Federico Pace 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 Latina this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A muscle injury sidelines Marco Testa for 14 days

Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Latina will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.

Squad

Youssoupha Mbodji has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Latina will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief

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The Latina Chronicle

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Latina turn down Livorno for Matteo Basti

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

Thomas Romero is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 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.

Squad

Antonio Cioffi has improved at 24, 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. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

Boardroom

5 academy players handed senior numbers at Latina

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Squad

Giacomo Tomaselli 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 Latina this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Latina promote Marco Testa from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Marco Testa 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.

Market

One of our own: Cesare Catalano joins the Latina first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Cesare Catalano is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Flavio Morelli steps up from the Latina academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Flavio Morelli 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.

Squad

No hiding place for Rodrigo De Ciancio

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Rodrigo De Ciancio, and the manager let it.

In brief