Samuele Vitale

Goalkeeper - Ascoli
11 Nov 2026
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Samuele Vitale

15 Edition

The Ascoli Gazette

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Enrico Oviszach runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 38. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Francesco De Witt damages knee ligaments — 27 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 27 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.

Match

Cup progress for Ascoli

A 1‑0 win over Cesena, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Player ratings

Giacomo De Pieri, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 8.10

A mark of 8.10 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad

Tempers go at Ascoli

Francesco Galuppini 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.

Squad

Giovanni Corradini 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.

The terraces

Ascoli supporters have found a favourite in Giacomo De Pieri

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 19-year-old it feels ownership of. Giacomo De Pieri 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.

Squad

No hiding place for Simone Corazza

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

Match

Ascoli and Pontedera take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

In brief

Back issues
5 Edition

The Ascoli Gazette

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Mohamed Amine Chakir out for 27 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Ascoli will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Enrico Oviszach

Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Tempers go at Ascoli

Francesco Galuppini 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.

Squad

Samuele Vitale 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.

Squad

Ascoli count the cost of losing Augusto Bando

52 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Match

Point won or two lost for Ascoli?

Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Guidonia Montecelio? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.

In brief

2 Edition

The Ascoli Gazette

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Ascoli turn down Carrarese for Tommaso Milanese

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

Gabriele Gori signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Gabriele Gori commits to Ascoli for another 3 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Ascoli

Francesco Galuppini 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.

Squad

Samuele Vitale 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.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Tommaso Milanese

“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.

Market

The clock runs on Giovanni Corradini's contract

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.

In brief