Marked for Michele Emmausso
From our football correspondent
Steady
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market14 Dec 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Cosenza they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match12 Dec 2026
Nobody wins at Cosenza
9 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Nicolò Contiliano 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Squad14 Dec 2026
“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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Uneasy
Match7 Nov 2026
Ninety minutes of very little, and then everything at once. The winner arrived in the 87th, and Potenza spent what remained of the match appealing to the referee rather than chasing the ball.
Squad9 Nov 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 Cosenza this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match7 Nov 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Aldo Florenzi’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Cosenza.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Paolo Dametto 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.
Loan watch9 Nov 2026
“I did not go to Foggia to sit and watch. I want to come back to Cosenza and fight for my place.” 2 appearances in 13 matches say the rest.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
7.62, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Cosenza had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Squad9 Nov 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match10 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Cosenza
7 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match10 Oct 2026
Whatever happens, Cosenza do not lose
8 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad12 Oct 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 Cosenza this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings12 Oct 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.
Loan watch12 Oct 2026
“I watch every Cosenza game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Foggia runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Riccardo Palmieri, and the manager let it.