The Pineto Courier
Squad11 Jan 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Stefano Amadio
42 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Pineto lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
No sign of nerves from Marco Delle Monache at 21 — 7.71
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Marco Delle Monache did not need any: 7.71, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
Federico Baggi goes up and wins it — 7.88
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.88 for the rest of it.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Pineto
Tommaso D'Orazio 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Matteo Borsoi stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Matteo Borsoi and Pineto agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words at Pineto training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Filippo D'Andrea 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.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Pineto rebuffed over Milton Pereyra
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Napoli have kept their man, and Pineto go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market11 Jan 2027
Mattia Pavone steps up from the Pineto academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Mattia Pavone 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.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
Alessandro Tonti gets it from the manager
“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.
In brief
- Match Nobody wins at Pineto
- Match Pineto refuse to lose to Campobasso
- Match Marco Delle Monache rescues a point for Pineto