Marked for Antonio Satriano
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match5 Dec 2026
No end in sight to Pro Vercelli's wait for a win
7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Pro Vercelli has to find a result from somewhere.
Match5 Dec 2026
6 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words at Pro Vercelli training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Achraf el Bouchataoui 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Cristiano Furno and Pro Vercelli agree another 3 years.
Squad7 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.
Match5 Dec 2026
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Novara defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Hamza Haoudi knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Pro Vercelli, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market7 Dec 2026
36 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
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Uneasy
Squad30 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Gianluca Clemente
20 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Pro Vercelli lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match28 Nov 2026
6 matches without a win for Pro Vercelli
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Pro Vercelli are no longer polite ones.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Antonio Satriano: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Pro Vercelli have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match28 Nov 2026
5 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad30 Nov 2026
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.
Squad30 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 Pro Vercelli this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Crisis
Squad9 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Gianluca Clemente
41 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Pro Vercelli lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Dean Huiberts 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words at Pro Vercelli training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Achraf el Bouchataoui 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.
Match7 Nov 2026
0‑1 to Trento, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad9 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Luca Coccolo
“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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Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
Gianluca Clemente damages knee ligaments — 72 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 72 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.
Match10 Oct 2026
Whatever happens, Pro Vercelli do not lose
7 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
Mattia Del Favero 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mattia Del Favero, and the manager let it.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Hamza Haoudi 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.
Match10 Oct 2026
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Union Brescia came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
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Uneasy
Squad14 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Gianluca Clemente
101 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Pro Vercelli lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Pro Vercelli training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Achraf el Bouchataoui 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mattia Del Favero, and the manager let it.
Market14 Sep 2026
Ezequiel Morales is 20, and Pro Vercelli have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
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Steady
Squad17 Aug 2026
Dean Huiberts 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
15 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Pro Vercelli training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Achraf el Bouchataoui 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Pro Vercelli has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
Market17 Aug 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Antonio Satriano’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.