Marked for Andrea Seculin
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Upbeat
Market10 May 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Reggiana can pretend not to have heard.
Squad10 May 2027
A row about effort at Reggiana
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Yeferson Paz was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout10 May 2027
“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.
Loan watch10 May 2027
29 appearances away from home and 11 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
Market10 May 2027
The Matteo Rover talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Reggiana know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout10 May 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout10 May 2027
Kleis Bozhanaj knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Kleis Bozhanaj trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market10 May 2027
The shop window has Leon Šipoš in it
Reggiana have let the market know Leon Šipoš can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
Squad10 May 2027
A year in and the city has not opened up, the language has not come, and lunch is eaten alone more often than anybody at Reggiana would admit. It shows on Saturdays.
Back issues
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Squad19 Apr 2027
17 days out for Yeferson Paz after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Reggiana will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match19 Apr 2027
The season ends: position 1 for Reggiana
The last league game has been played and the table has stopped moving: 67 points. The summer begins on Monday, and so does the argument about what it all meant.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
Danilo Quaranta: 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.” Reggiana have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match17 Apr 2027
After 9 games, Reggiana finally taste it again
The first defeat in 9 matches. The manager will say it had to come; the dressing room will say it did not have to come against Campobasso; the supporters will say both, in that order, all week.
Market19 Apr 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Reggiana is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Match17 Apr 2027
Campobasso left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alessio Furlanetto, and the manager let it.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Words at Reggiana training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mathis Lambourde 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.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Words exchanged at Reggiana
Jérémie Lioka 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.
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Triumph
Squad5 Apr 2027
31 days out for Yeferson Paz after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Reggiana will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match3 Apr 2027
Reggiana make it 8 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Reggiana have 8 straight wins of it.
Match3 Apr 2027
3‑0, and Tommaso Fumagalli took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Reggiana tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
Two goals and a mark of 8.72 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad5 Apr 2027
25 goals and a season average of 7.34. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Adam Sosna is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Time is catching up with Hernán Claro
Everybody at Reggiana saw it before anybody said it, which is how this always goes. At 34 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.
Match3 Apr 2027
8 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
The dugout5 Apr 2027
“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.
In brief
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Loan watch
10 goals on loan for Matteo Maggio
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The dugout
The team sheet said everything about Paolo Rozzio
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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Upbeat
Squad11 Jan 2027
83 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Reggiana lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match9 Jan 2027
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 4‑1 against Sambenedettese, and it could have been more.
Squad11 Jan 2027
100 days out for Lorenzo Crisetig after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Reggiana will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad11 Jan 2027
3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Market11 Jan 2027
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Sorrento waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Reggiana is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Squad11 Jan 2027
There were 6 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.
Market11 Jan 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Reggiana can pretend not to have heard.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
Danilo Quaranta: 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.” Reggiana have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market11 Jan 2027
Reggiana say no — this time
The offer from Estoril Praia for Leon Šipoš was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
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Crisis
Squad14 Dec 2026
112 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Reggiana lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match9 Dec 2026
Genoa ended it 1‑2. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
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 7.38 for the rest of it.
Match12 Dec 2026
1‑2 to Perugia, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad14 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Reggiana
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mathis Lambourde was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑2 Marco Serafini left the room before anybody could ask which.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Nobody's fault and entirely his: a goal that goes into the book with his name against it and nothing about it intended. Reggiana deserved better, and so did he.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Reggiana
Marcon 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.
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Steady
Squad5 Oct 2026
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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages swallow 146% of the Reggiana income
Every club 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 it has been tried.
Squad5 Oct 2026
50 goals in these colours now, every one of them somebody’s memory. There is a supporter in the stand who can tell you where he was for most of them.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Reggiana
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Massimo Bertagnoli was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
A performance of 8.17 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Massimo Bertagnoli, and the manager let it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Reggiana
Erick Ciobanu 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
Reggiana caught on 85 minutes
The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Spezia scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Matteo Rover is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.