The Vicenza Courier
Squad26 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Vicenza
Riccardo Gagno 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Vicenza training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Maxime Leverbe 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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Giuseppe Cuomo gets it from the manager
“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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Silvio Merkaj named player of the week
One weekend, judged against everybody else's. Silvio Merkaj has come out on top of it, and for most footballers a weekly award is the only silverware a career ever produces.
Looking ahead26 Oct 2026
Giulio Pellizzari faces his old club
Dolomiti Bellunesi next, and one man in the Vicenza dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
Market26 Oct 2026
The Maxime Leverbe talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Vicenza know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
When it matters, Daniel Cappelletti plays
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 dugout26 Oct 2026
The manager makes Nicola Rauti a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Vicenza. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
Looking ahead26 Oct 2026
Vicenza host Dolomiti Bellunesi
Next up at home: Dolomiti Bellunesi, who go into it in position 14. The kind of fixture a season is quietly built on or quietly loses its shape in.
In brief
- Squad Claudio Morra makes the division’s eleven — 6.94
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Filippo Costa