Marked for Thomas Dalsgaard
From our football correspondent
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Boardroom5 Jul 2038
Facundo Ibáñez has until the next board meeting
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Dolomiti Bellunesi can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Boardroom5 Jul 2038
The official line will be that it was routine. It was not routine, the timing says so, and every person in that room knows what the next bad result costs.
Squad5 Jul 2038
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Dolomiti Bellunesi may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad5 Jul 2038
Louis Agosti 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 Dolomiti Bellunesi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Jul 2038
Thomas Dalsgaard is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 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.
Boardroom5 Jul 2038
The shortfall was covered from upstairs again. Supporters are entitled to be relieved and entitled to ask what happens the month it is not, and both feelings usually arrive together.
Boardroom5 Jul 2038
150% of the income goes out in wages at Dolomiti Bellunesi
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad5 Jul 2038
Gianluca Giuliani 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.
Market5 Jul 2038
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
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Squad28 Jun 2038
Antonio De Marco: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Dolomiti Bellunesi have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market28 Jun 2038
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Dolomiti Bellunesi, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad28 Jun 2038
Words at Dolomiti Bellunesi training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Francesco Petito 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.
Market28 Jun 2038
The Louis Agosti story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Louis Agosti signs something — a contract at Dolomiti Bellunesi or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Market28 Jun 2038
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Squad28 Jun 2038
Thomas Dalsgaard 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.
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Boardroom21 Jun 2038
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Dolomiti Bellunesi
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Market21 Jun 2038
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Dolomiti Bellunesi, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad21 Jun 2038
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dolomiti Bellunesi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Jun 2038
Francesco Petito 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.
Squad21 Jun 2038
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Lorenzo Del Pino trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Squad14 Jun 2038
A knee injury of the worst kind for Danilo Di Stefano
16 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Dolomiti Bellunesi lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market14 Jun 2038
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad14 Jun 2038
Louis Agosti 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.
Squad14 Jun 2038
He is 21, he is averaging 7.07, and older professionals have started passing to him in the difficult minutes. That last part is the real scouting report.
Boardroom14 Jun 2038
The embargo bars a fee being paid for a player, whatever the manager thinks the squad needs. Every rumour printed about this club between now and its lifting is a rumour about a deal that cannot happen.
Boardroom14 Jun 2038
The borrowing is past what the bank agreed, which is the line where a debt stops being how football is financed and starts being a problem. Every phone-in in this town will quote the figure for the next five years.
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Boardroom24 May 2038
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Dolomiti Bellunesi is running low.
Market24 May 2038
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad24 May 2038
Louis Agosti 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 Dolomiti Bellunesi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 May 2038
“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.
Squad24 May 2038
Piero Solinas 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.
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Market17 May 2038
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Dolomiti Bellunesi, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings17 May 2038
No sign of nerves from Thomas Dalsgaard at 21 — 9.01
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Thomas Dalsgaard did not need any: 9.01, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Match15 May 2038
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Dolomiti Bellunesi have 3 straight wins of it.
Squad17 May 2038
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dolomiti Bellunesi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 May 2038
A season average of 7.53 with 9 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad17 May 2038
A season average of 7.07 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Dolomiti Bellunesi know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.
Squad17 May 2038
Words at Dolomiti Bellunesi training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Francesco Petito 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.
The terraces17 May 2038
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Thomas Dalsgaard 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.
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Market10 May 2038
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Dolomiti Bellunesi can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings10 May 2038
At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 9.45 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Player ratings10 May 2038
24 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
Squad10 May 2038
Defences have started doubling up on Francesco Petito
9 goals and a season average of 7.48 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Squad10 May 2038
Francesco Petito 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.
Boardroom10 May 2038
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Boardroom10 May 2038
The manager may talk to whoever he likes and may pay nobody. A squad survives a window like this by borrowing, by promoting, and by hoping the injuries land somewhere else.
Player ratings10 May 2038
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.51, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
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Uneasy
Boardroom26 Apr 2038
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Dolomiti Bellunesi is running low.
The terraces26 Apr 2038
The mood at Dolomiti Bellunesi has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Player ratings26 Apr 2038
No sign of nerves from Thomas Dalsgaard at 21 — 8.68
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Thomas Dalsgaard did not need any: 8.68, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Player ratings26 Apr 2038
Louis Agosti, 33, rolls back the years — 8.90
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.90 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Market26 Apr 2038
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad26 Apr 2038
Louis Agosti is in the form of his life
A season average of 7.49 with 13 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad26 Apr 2038
Ronald Kumi 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.
Match24 Apr 2038
6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Dolomiti Bellunesi and Trento in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Squad26 Apr 2038
Francesco Petito 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.
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Match17 Apr 2038
Thomas Dalsgaard wins it after the whistle should have gone
94 minutes played. Thomas Dalsgaard found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Giana Erminio went from a point to nothing inside one movement.
Player ratings19 Apr 2038
No sign of nerves from Thomas Dalsgaard at 21 — 9.25
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Thomas Dalsgaard did not need any: 9.25, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Market19 Apr 2038
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Dolomiti Bellunesi, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings19 Apr 2038
Francesco Petito, 35, rolls back the years — 8.39
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.39 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad19 Apr 2038
9 goals and a season average of 7.48. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad19 Apr 2038
Lorenzo Del Pino 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.
Squad19 Apr 2038
Words at Dolomiti Bellunesi training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Francesco Petito 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.
Player ratings19 Apr 2038
Rivaldo Mothiba was on a different afternoon to everybody else
9.51. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
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Boardroom5 Apr 2038
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Match3 Apr 2038
It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. Arzignano kept coming because nothing stopped them, and Dolomiti Bellunesi will be asked about the last half hour all week.
Player ratings5 Apr 2038
No sign of nerves from Thomas Dalsgaard at 21 — 8.61
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Thomas Dalsgaard did not need any: 8.61, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad5 Apr 2038
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market5 Apr 2038
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Dolomiti Bellunesi is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad5 Apr 2038
12 goals and a season average of 7.47. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad5 Apr 2038
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dolomiti Bellunesi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match3 Apr 2038
Beaten 2‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
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Player ratings15 Mar 2038
No sign of nerves from Thomas Dalsgaard at 21 — 7.82
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Thomas Dalsgaard did not need any: 7.82, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Market15 Mar 2038
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Dolomiti Bellunesi can pretend not to have heard.
Squad15 Mar 2038
Tommaso Capanna: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Dolomiti Bellunesi have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad15 Mar 2038
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dolomiti Bellunesi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad15 Mar 2038
Francesco Petito 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.
Match13 Mar 2038
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Player ratings15 Mar 2038
Rivaldo Mothiba was on a different afternoon to everybody else
9.18. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad15 Mar 2038
“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.
Boardroom15 Mar 2038
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
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Player ratings15 Feb 2038
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.50, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Market15 Feb 2038
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad15 Feb 2038
Alberto Lattanzio 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.
Squad15 Feb 2038
Francesco Petito 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.
Boardroom15 Feb 2038
158% of the income goes out in wages at Dolomiti Bellunesi
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad15 Feb 2038
Ronald Kumi 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.
Player ratings15 Feb 2038
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Boardroom15 Feb 2038
Football clubs borrow; that is not the story. Borrowing more than the facility allows is, because from here it is the owner's money or somebody else's decision, and neither of those belongs to the board.
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Match23 Jan 2038
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 90th minute. AlbinoLeffe will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Squad25 Jan 2038
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings25 Jan 2038
Francesco Petito, 35, rolls back the years — 9.19
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 9.19 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Market25 Jan 2038
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Player ratings25 Jan 2038
Thomas Dalsgaard, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.72
A mark of 7.72 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Match23 Jan 2038
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Dolomiti Bellunesi have 4 straight wins of it.
Squad25 Jan 2038
Lorenzo Del Pino 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.
Squad25 Jan 2038
Words at Dolomiti Bellunesi training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Francesco Petito 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.
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Upbeat
Player ratings11 Jan 2038
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 10.00, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Market11 Jan 2038
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Dolomiti Bellunesi, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings11 Jan 2038
At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.26 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad11 Jan 2038
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Match9 Jan 2038
3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Match9 Jan 2038
7 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Dolomiti Bellunesi and Novara in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Squad11 Jan 2038
Lorenzo Del Pino 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 2038
Words at Dolomiti Bellunesi training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Francesco Petito 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.
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Crisis
Squad26 Oct 2037
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market26 Oct 2037
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Dolomiti Bellunesi can pretend not to have heard.
Match24 Oct 2037
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Dolomiti Bellunesi has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad26 Oct 2037
Fredrik Bohinen: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Dolomiti Bellunesi have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad26 Oct 2037
Words at Dolomiti Bellunesi training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Francesco Petito 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.
Match24 Oct 2037
Lecco left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings26 Oct 2037
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Boardroom26 Oct 2037
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Squad26 Oct 2037
Klevi Qefalija wants to finish where he started
Every long career reaches the week the player starts thinking about the last one. He would like it to be at the club that first put him on a pitch, and Dolomiti Bellunesi now know that too.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Boardroom5 Oct 2037
Interim Coach has until the next board meeting
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Dolomiti Bellunesi can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Boardroom5 Oct 2037
The official line will be that it was routine. It was not routine, the timing says so, and every person in that room knows what the next bad result costs.
Market5 Oct 2037
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Dolomiti Bellunesi can pretend not to have heard.
Squad5 Oct 2037
“The easiest signature of my career.” Francesco Petito and Dolomiti Bellunesi agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad5 Oct 2037
Louis Agosti 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 Dolomiti Bellunesi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Oct 2037
Francesco Petito 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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2037
The shortfall was covered from upstairs again. Supporters are entitled to be relieved and entitled to ask what happens the month it is not, and both feelings usually arrive together.
Player ratings5 Oct 2037
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad5 Oct 2037
A place in the month's best eleven for Thomas Dalsgaard
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Thomas Dalsgaard has come out of that comparison in the side, and Dolomiti Bellunesi have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market24 Aug 2037
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad24 Aug 2037
Louis Agosti 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 Dolomiti Bellunesi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 Aug 2037
Thomas Dalsgaard is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 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.
Squad24 Aug 2037
Francesco Petito 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.
Boardroom24 Aug 2037
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Dolomiti Bellunesi
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.
Market24 Aug 2037
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Nicolò Cecconi is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market24 Aug 2037
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Dario Negri is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market24 Aug 2037
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Danilo Di Stefano is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Boardroom24 Aug 2037
Football clubs borrow; that is not the story. Borrowing more than the facility allows is, because from here it is the owner's money or somebody else's decision, and neither of those belongs to the board.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad27 Jul 2037
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Dolomiti Bellunesi may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad27 Jul 2037
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Thomas Dalsgaard is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad27 Jul 2037
Alberto Lattanzio 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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Boardroom18 May 2037
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Dolomiti Bellunesi is running low.
Squad18 May 2037
A fracture rules Klevi Qefalija out for 14 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Dolomiti Bellunesi will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad18 May 2037
Ronald Kumi is in the form of his life
A season average of 7.22 with 25 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Market18 May 2037
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Dolomiti Bellunesi can pretend not to have heard.
Squad18 May 2037
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Match16 May 2037
6 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.
Match16 May 2037
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Dolomiti Bellunesi are no longer polite ones.
Squad18 May 2037
Ronald Kumi 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.
Match16 May 2037
Beaten 2‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Boardroom20 Apr 2037
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Dolomiti Bellunesi
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Squad20 Apr 2037
A fracture rules Klevi Qefalija out for 42 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Dolomiti Bellunesi will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings20 Apr 2037
Two goals and a mark of 9.13 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Match18 Apr 2037
There were 88 minutes on the clock and Giana Erminio had all but banked the point. Football rarely reads the room, and Dolomiti Bellunesi did not stop to explain themselves.
Squad20 Apr 2037
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market20 Apr 2037
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Dolomiti Bellunesi can pretend not to have heard.
Squad20 Apr 2037
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad20 Apr 2037
Louis Agosti 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 Dolomiti Bellunesi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match18 Apr 2037
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Louis Agosti. 3‑2 against Giana Erminio, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
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Crisis
Squad2 Mar 2037
A fracture rules Klevi Qefalija out for 91 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Dolomiti Bellunesi will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Boardroom2 Mar 2037
Interim Coach has until the next board meeting
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Dolomiti Bellunesi can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Boardroom2 Mar 2037
Nothing has been announced and everybody understands what it means. A board that summons the whole football department on a Tuesday morning is a board that has stopped believing the problem will fix itself.
Squad2 Mar 2037
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Francesco Petito and Dolomiti Bellunesi agree another 2 years.
Squad2 Mar 2037
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dolomiti Bellunesi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad2 Mar 2037
Words at Dolomiti Bellunesi training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Louis Agosti 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.
Boardroom2 Mar 2037
This is money that keeps the lights on rather than money that buys a centre-half, and the difference is the whole story. A club funded by its owner rather than by its football has exactly one conversation left ahead of it.
Match28 Feb 2037
Pro Patria left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Boardroom2 Mar 2037
The embargo bars a fee being paid for a player, whatever the manager thinks the squad needs. Every rumour printed about this club between now and its lifting is a rumour about a deal that cannot happen.