Marked for Davide Voltan
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market26 Jul 2027
Philipp Simon hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Lecco can pretend not to have heard.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Tempers go at Lecco
Guillaume Furrer 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 Jul 2027
The manager makes an example of Philipp Simon
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Back issues
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Crisis
Market12 Apr 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Edoardo Duca 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 Lecco this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match10 Apr 2027
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Player ratings12 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad12 Apr 2027
The manager makes an example of Marwane Kritta
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings12 Apr 2027
Shots: 9, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.
Squad12 Apr 2027
At 19 years old, Federico Arena became the latest name off the academy production line to be handed a senior shirt.
The terraces12 Apr 2027
The spotlight tightens on Leon Šipoš
Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.
Player ratings12 Apr 2027
5.80 on the card. Some afternoons a footballer looks like a man who has only just been introduced to the game, and this was one of them.
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Uneasy
Squad15 Mar 2027
3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Squad15 Mar 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Lecco may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Edoardo Duca 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 Lecco this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Crisis
Squad11 Jan 2027
A season average of 7.17 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Lecco know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Lecco
Edoardo Duca 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.
Match9 Jan 2027
Alcione Milano left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad11 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Edoardo Duca, and the manager let it.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.14, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Market11 Jan 2027
Arezzo are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Lecco will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
Ten men and a goalkeeper behind him, and it still finished in the net. He knew before anybody told him, and nobody at Lecco needed to.
Market11 Jan 2027
Lecco bring in an old head
Andrea Seculin is 36 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.
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Uneasy
Match14 Nov 2026
6 matches without a win for Lecco
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Lecco are no longer polite ones.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Gregorio Tanco: 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.” Lecco have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Lecco
Edoardo Duca 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.
Squad16 Nov 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.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Marked 8.10 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
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Steady
Squad2 Nov 2026
Luca Marrone 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 Lecco this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
350% of the income goes out in wages at Lecco
Every club in football 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 somebody has tried it.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Marked 8.45 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
A performance of 8.29 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad2 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Luca Marrone
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match31 Oct 2026
It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Lecco’s own kid cannot get a game
At 32, Matteo Battistini has come through every age group this club has, and now watches a borrowed player of much the same level start every week. An academy notices these things, and so do the parents in the stand.
Squad2 Nov 2026
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
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Steady
Squad26 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Lecco
Guillaume Furrer 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.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Marked 8.14 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Market26 Oct 2026
He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
Squad26 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Davide Voltan
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match24 Oct 2026
It needed Ismaël Konaté to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Dolomiti Bellunesi, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
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Steady
Match23 Sep 2026
Cup progress for Lecco
A 1‑0 win over AlbinoLeffe, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Defensive actions: 31, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Squad28 Sep 2026
The match ball belongs to Ismaël Konaté, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Edoardo Duca 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 Lecco this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
A performance of 9.86 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match26 Sep 2026
A 3‑1 win over Ospitaletto, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad28 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Matteo Battistini, and the manager let it.
Squad28 Sep 2026
20 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.