Marked for Ciro Loreto
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Steady
Match3 Apr 2027
21 unbeaten for Cavese
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 21 matches without defeat is a foundation Cavese did not have in the autumn.
Squad5 Apr 2027
23 clean sheets and counting. Strikers leave this ground muttering his name, which is exactly how a goalkeeper measures a good season.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Ciro Loreto 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 Cavese this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Words at Cavese training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alessio Luciani 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.
Match3 Apr 2027
It finished 1‑0, and it was Sveinn Aron Guðjohnsen’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Cavese.
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Upbeat
Match20 Feb 2027
Still nobody has beaten Cavese
The unbeaten run reaches 15. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Match20 Feb 2027
Nobody wins at Cavese
13 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Squad22 Feb 2027
19 shut-outs and counting. Goalkeepers are only noticed when they fail, and Marc-Aurèle Caillard has given nobody the chance.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Tempers go at Cavese
Alessio Luciani 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 ratings22 Feb 2027
Nobody could get near Moussa Yeo
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match20 Feb 2027
Picerno made Cavese work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Words at Cavese training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Francesco Orlando 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.
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
Marked 7.53. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Squad22 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Elia Visconti
“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.
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Upbeat
Match6 Feb 2027
13 unbeaten for Cavese
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 13 matches without defeat is a foundation Cavese did not have in the autumn.
Match6 Feb 2027
Nobody wins at Cavese
12 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Squad8 Feb 2027
17 shut-outs and counting. Goalkeepers are only noticed when they fail, and Marc-Aurèle Caillard has given nobody the chance.
Squad8 Feb 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Cavese this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words at Cavese training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alessio Luciani 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.
Player ratings8 Feb 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
“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 ratings8 Feb 2027
Defensive actions: 13. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Match6 Feb 2027
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Cosenza defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
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Steady
Squad14 Dec 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 Cavese this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Words at Cavese training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alessio Luciani 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.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Moussa Yeo runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match12 Dec 2026
A 1‑0 win over Potenza, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Getting past Marc-Aurèle Caillard has become the hardest job in the division
10 clean sheets and counting. Forwards used to back themselves here; now they shoot early, shoot wide, and look for somebody to blame.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Simon Dia dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
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Uneasy
Squad16 Nov 2026
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Cavese
Philippe van Arnhem 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
Words at Cavese training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alessio Luciani 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
8 shut-outs and counting. Goalkeepers are only noticed when they fail, and Marc-Aurèle Caillard has given nobody the chance.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
14 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 13. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Francesco Orlando
64 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Cavese lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 26 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Marked 7.77. There is a kind of forward whose value only shows up when you count what he was involved in rather than what he finished, and this is the day that argument makes itself.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Cavese
Francesco Orlando 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 terraces21 Sep 2026
Cavese supporters have found a favourite in Moussa Yeo
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Moussa Yeo 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.
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Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Ciro Loreto and Cavese agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 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 Cavese this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Francesco Orlando 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Ciro Loreto
“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.
Market10 Aug 2026
48 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
Market10 Aug 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.
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Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Sveinn Aron Guðjohnsen and Cavese agree another 4 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Cavese
Francesco Orlando 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Cavese training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alessio Luciani 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Cavese, another week without a signature from Alessio Luciani.
Market3 Aug 2026
The clock runs on Giuseppe Fella's contract
24 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Ciro Loreto 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 Ciro Loreto trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.