Danilo Bellucci

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Process

Marked for Danilo Bellucci

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The Casertana Gazette

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Alessandro Vilardi hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Casertana can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets

Casertana rebuffed over Dinis Rodrigues

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Napoli have kept their man, and Casertana go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Match

A bad afternoon for Casertana against Cavese

0‑2 to Cavese, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout

No hiding place for Victor De Lucia

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

Player ratings

Giulio Favale runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The dugout

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 0‑2 Bruno Donadoni left the room before anybody could ask which.

The dugout

The plan did not have a place for Michele Vano

Nobody at Casertana 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 ahead

Francesco Di Tacchio faces his old club

Catania next, and one man in the Casertana dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

Squad

The room hears from Jacopo Manconi

“Nobody outside is coming to save us.” It was short, it was not comfortable, and by all accounts the Casertana squad were quieter afterwards than they had been all season.

In brief

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The Casertana Gazette

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

Jovan Marković turns down Casertana

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Farul Constanța keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad

Accursio Bentivegna stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Accursio Bentivegna and Casertana agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

A falling-out at Casertana

Shady Oukhadda and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets

Shakhtar tell Casertana: Gleiker Mendoza is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

The dugout

No hiding place for Accursio Bentivegna

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

Market

Giuseppe Del Vecchio steps up from the Casertana academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Giuseppe Del Vecchio 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.

Market

One of our own: Giulio Trevisan joins the Casertana first team

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

Market

Casertana promote Danilo Bellucci from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Danilo Bellucci 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

Federico Sartori steps up from the Casertana academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Federico Sartori 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