Marco Bertoli

Striker - Ospitaletto
24 Oct 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Marco Bertoli

9 Edition

The Ospitaletto Sentinel

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

The cup run ends for Ospitaletto

0‑0 against Cittadella, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Squad

Luca Sonzogni is the hero from the spot

A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Luca Sonzogni: 1 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.

Squad

Real improvement from Dion Cakolli at Ospitaletto

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Dion Cakolli is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

The terraces

Ospitaletto supporters have found a favourite in Luca Sonzogni

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Luca Sonzogni 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Marco Bertoli

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

Match

Ospitaletto get the job done against Novara

A 1‑0 win over Novara, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Player ratings

From twelve yards, and Marcello Possenti misses

A penalty is the one moment in football with nowhere to hide, and he did not score it. The walk back was long and the week will be longer.

Squad

Ospitaletto are still strangers to each other

13 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

Player ratings

Claudio Messaggi takes the honours

Marked 7.61 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Ospitaletto had the best player on the pitch.

In brief

Back issues
7 Edition

The Ospitaletto Sentinel

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

8 saves: Luca Sonzogni was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Omar Fayed rejects the move

Ospitaletto had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Frosinone, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Transfer targets

Juventus tell Ospitaletto: Giacomo Faticanti is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Match

A bad afternoon for Ospitaletto against Pro Vercelli

0‑2 to Pro Vercelli, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout

Kévin Hoggas 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.

Squad

Words at Ospitaletto training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mauro Semprini 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 dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑2 defeat, delivered by Gianluca Sorrentino to a room that had heard them before.

Squad

Mattia Piermarini has had enough of the bench

“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Ospitaletto will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Mateo Scheffer

Successful dribbles: 12. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

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The Ospitaletto Sentinel

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Marcello Possenti signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Marcello Possenti commits to Ospitaletto for another 2 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Ospitaletto

Mattia Ievoli 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.

Market

Talks stall between Ospitaletto and Marcello Possenti

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

Market

49 months and counting on Marco Bertoli

Still no offer on the table, and Marco Bertoli’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.

Squad

7 new faces, and Ospitaletto 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.

Transfer targets

Ospitaletto ask about Leonardo Graziani

A loan enquiry to Pescara: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

In brief