Marko Guja

Attacking Midfielder (C) - Retired
3 Jul 2029
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Marked for Marko Guja

95 Edition

The Pianese Gazette

22 May 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad22 May 2028

Words exchanged at Pianese

Eddy Kouadio and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad22 May 2028

Home is on Rodrigo Soria's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Pianese are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Squad22 May 2028

Luca Ercolani 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.

Squad22 May 2028

Time is catching up with Marko Guja

Everybody at Pianese saw it before anybody said it, which is how this always goes. At 38 the decline is real and measurable — 3 points — and the only question left is how the club handles somebody it owes a great deal to.

The dugout22 May 2028

A promise honoured for Matteo Colombo

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Pianese told Matteo Colombo something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

The dugout22 May 2028

Lorenzo Masetti is still paying for one afternoon at Pianese

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

The dugout22 May 2028

Rodrigo Soria knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Pianese, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market22 May 2028

The Ramón Villalba talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Pianese know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

The dugout22 May 2028

Simone Ardizzone 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 Simone Ardizzone is on it.

In brief

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The Pianese Gazette

6 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings6 Mar 2028

Leonardo Di Cosmo pops up at the right end — 7.98

7.98, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.

Match4 Mar 2028

The wait goes on for Pianese

4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad6 Mar 2028

Words at Pianese training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Francesco Proietto 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.

Match4 Mar 2028

Leonardo Di Cosmo’s goal not enough for Pianese

Leonardo Di Cosmo scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Campobasso, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

The dugout6 Mar 2028

No hiding place for Eddy Kouadio

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Eddy Kouadio, and the manager let it.

Squad6 Mar 2028

Marko Guja is slowing down

At 37, 3 points below where he was, and a body that has started charging interest. It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph on this page.

Squad6 Mar 2028

Leonardo Di Cosmo named player of the month

The award goes to Leonardo Di Cosmo, and nobody around here is inclined to argue with the choice.

The dugout6 Mar 2028

Luciano Rizzi: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

Squad6 Mar 2028

Leonardo Di Cosmo named in the team of the month

A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Leonardo Di Cosmo is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.

In brief