The Cesena Chronicle
Squad24 Aug 2037
Gaël Lafont damages knee ligaments — 120 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 120 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad24 Aug 2037
Cristian Shpendi 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 Cesena this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom24 Aug 2037
13 academy players handed senior numbers at Cesena
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.
Squad24 Aug 2037
Simone Pieraccini 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.
Market24 Aug 2037
Cesena promote Umberto Colletti from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Umberto Colletti 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.
Market24 Aug 2037
Edoardo Caputo steps up from the Cesena academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Edoardo Caputo 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
- Market One of our own: Domenico Grassi joins the Cesena first team
- Market Cesena promote Diego Mariani from within
- Squad The manager makes an example of Gaël Lafont