Mirko Miceli

Central Defender - Catania
24 Jan 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Mirko Miceli

15 Edition

The Catania Sentinel

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Andrea Dini is the hero from the spot

A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Andrea Dini: 4 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.

Match

Cup progress for Catania

A 1‑1 win over Lecce, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Squad

Alessandro Raimo breaks a bone — 117 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 117 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

Still nobody has beaten Catania

The unbeaten run reaches 12. 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 ratings

Gabriel Lunetta runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Mirko Miceli yet — 8.01

At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.01 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad

Emanuele Cicerelli 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 Catania this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

The kick that got away from Manuel Martic

Twelve yards, a goalkeeper guessing, and it still did not go in. He will take the next one, and every soul in the ground will hold their breath.

Squad

Francesco Forte 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.

In brief

Back issues
11 Edition

The Catania Sentinel

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Yann Karamoh 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 Catania this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

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.

Squad

Catania keep their word to Yann Karamoh

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

In brief

7 Edition

The Catania Sentinel

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Nothing got past Andrea Corbari

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 19 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Squad

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.

Squad

No hiding place for Mirko Miceli

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

Player ratings

Yann Karamoh runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Andrea Dini dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

Player ratings

A defender's afternoon for Tiago Casasola

Defensive actions: 15. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Player ratings

A defender's afternoon for Giovanni Di Noia

Defensive actions: 15. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Match

Point won or two lost for Catania?

Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Giugliano? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.

Squad

Yann Karamoh still has not settled

A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Catania would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.

In brief

1 Edition

The Catania Sentinel

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

8 seasons of Mirko Miceli

354 appearances across 8 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Catania know what they have.

Squad

Daniele Donnarumma signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Daniele Donnarumma and Catania agree another 2 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Catania

Emanuele Cicerelli 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.

In brief