Marked for Eugenio D'Ursi
From our football correspondent
Steady
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 33. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match14 Nov 2026
There were 87 minutes on the clock and Trapani had all but banked the point. Football rarely reads the room, and Sorrento did not stop to explain themselves.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Francesco Fusco pops up at the right end — 7.69
7.69, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Squad16 Nov 2026
51 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Luca Crecco 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 Sorrento this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces16 Nov 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Gaël Lafont has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match14 Nov 2026
Trapani made Sorrento work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Vincenzo Di Somma 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.
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.
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Uneasy
Squad2 Nov 2026
Marco Cuccurullo 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Luca Crecco 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.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
123% of the income goes out in wages at Sorrento
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: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Marked 7.90. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Federico Ricci
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Federico Ricci has come out of that comparison in the side, and Sorrento have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad14 Sep 2026
Luca Crecco 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.
The terraces14 Sep 2026
The crowd has taken to Gaël Lafont
At 20 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match12 Sep 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Federico Ricci. 1‑0 against Salernitana, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Marked 7.80 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Sorrento had the best player on the pitch.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Sorrento training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Vincenzo Di Somma 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
5 new faces, and Sorrento are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad17 Aug 2026
Stefano Paglino damages knee ligaments — 32 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 32 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad17 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Sorrento this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Sorrento training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Vincenzo Di Somma 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.