Leandro Russo

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Alcione Milano U18
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Marked for Leandro Russo

87 Edition

The Alcione Milano Herald

27 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad27 Mar 2028

A knee injury of the worst kind for Leandro Russo

32 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.

The dugout27 Mar 2028

Rilke Thomsen keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Alcione Milano may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad27 Mar 2028

Jacopo Martini 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 Alcione Milano this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad27 Mar 2028

Samuele Parlati 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 dugout27 Mar 2028

Jacopo Martini gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Jacopo Martini is on it.

Looking ahead27 Mar 2028

A reunion for Filippo Pirola

He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Giana Erminio in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.

Market27 Mar 2028

The Thiago Beltrame question follows Alcione Milano around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Thiago Beltrame’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

The dugout27 Mar 2028

Gastón Silva asks for a word with the manager

“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.

The dugout27 Mar 2028

The manager makes Facundo Molina a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Alcione Milano. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

In brief

Back issues
86 Edition

The Alcione Milano Herald

20 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad20 Mar 2028

A knee injury of the worst kind for Leandro Russo

39 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 ratings20 Mar 2028

Marco Grisoni Fasana, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.71

A mark of 7.71 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Player ratings20 Mar 2028

Jacopo Martini goes up and wins it — 7.71

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 7.71 for the rest of it.

Squad20 Mar 2028

A falling-out at Alcione Milano

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

Match18 Mar 2028

At last: Alcione Milano win one

6 matches without a win, and then this, against Pergolettese. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.

Match18 Mar 2028

Alcione Milano see off Pergolettese

Three points for Alcione Milano, 2‑1 the final word against Pergolettese in a contest settled by the finer margins.

The terraces20 Mar 2028

Alcione Milano supporters have found a favourite in Jacopo Martini

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Jacopo Martini has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Player ratings20 Mar 2028

Kevin Bright in the eights

A performance of 8.18 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad20 Mar 2028

A row about effort at Alcione Milano

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Marco Grisoni Fasana was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

In brief