Raphael Odogwu

Striker - Südtirol
13 Sep 2026
Sunday
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Marked for Raphael Odogwu

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The Südtirol Post

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Alvin Obinna Okoro wins it after the whistle should have gone

92 minutes played. Alvin Obinna Okoro found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Bari went from a point to nothing inside one movement.

Transfer targets

Patrik Carlgren is a medical away from Südtirol

The deal with Angers SCO is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Player ratings

Salvatore Molina was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 23. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Squad

Andrea Masiello 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 Südtirol this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Francesco Folino

Südtirol asked and Cremonese said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Match

Südtirol find a way past Bari

Bari made Südtirol work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

The terraces

One of their own: Alvin Obinna Okoro

He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Market

Casertana watching Gabriele Platto

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Südtirol have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

The dugout

Davide Veroli 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.

In brief

Back issues
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The Südtirol Post

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Picerno come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Südtirol did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

Andrea Giorgini stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Andrea Giorgini and Südtirol agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

A row about effort at Südtirol

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Andrea Giorgini was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

Andrea Masiello 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 Südtirol this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Alessandro Vogliacco

Südtirol asked and Cremonese said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Südtirol count the cost of losing Lukas Kostner

41 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Transfer targets

Südtirol try to borrow Jordan Amavi

Monaco have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Transfer targets

Südtirol try to borrow Rémy Descamps

Olympique Lyonnais have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

The dugout

Andrea Giorgini 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 Andrea Giorgini trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief