The Cesena Chronicle
Market5 Mar 2035
Alessandro Sorrentino is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Cesena is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Player ratings5 Mar 2035
A brace, and Samuel Pugliese takes the afternoon — 8.20
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Samuel Pugliese provided it, and the 8.20 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad5 Mar 2035
Andrea Ciofi 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.
Squad5 Mar 2035
Tempers go at Cesena
Bogdan Jočić 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.
Match3 Mar 2035
Cesena get the job done against Empoli
A 2‑1 win over Empoli, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings5 Mar 2035
The game went through Bjarki Bjarkason — 7.73
Marked 7.73 on 10 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.
The dugout5 Mar 2035
The manager makes an example of Nicola Pintus
“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.
Squad5 Mar 2035
Gianmarco Baldi signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Gianmarco Baldi and Cesena agree another 3 years.
The dugout5 Mar 2035
Interim Coach: “That is the standard”
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 2‑1, already talking about the next one.
In brief
- Market Cesena and Fabian Engedal are talking past each other
- The dugout The form table has caught Cristiano Bani
- Squad The weekend belonged to Giuseppe Coppola