Alessio Rizza

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84 Edition

The Cittadella Chronicle

6 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad6 Mar 2028

Davide Diaw damages knee ligaments — 103 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 103 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.

Squad6 Mar 2028

A fracture rules Nicola Pavan out for 77 days

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

The terraces6 Mar 2028

The ground has had enough

“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 8 of the 30 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.

Market6 Mar 2028

Malik Diawakana asks to leave Cittadella

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad6 Mar 2028

Lorenzo Carissoni signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Lorenzo Carissoni and Cittadella agree another 3 years.

Squad6 Mar 2028

Tempers go at Cittadella

Lorenzo Carissoni 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.

Match4 Mar 2028

Cittadella come up short against Union Brescia

Union Brescia left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Player ratings6 Mar 2028

Simone Rabbi runs at them all day

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.

The terraces6 Mar 2028

Everybody has an opinion about Alex Redolfi

He is the name in every column and on every phone-in, which is a heavy thing to carry at any age. Some footballers thrive on it; others are quietly finished by it.

In brief

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78 Edition

The Cittadella Chronicle

24 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad24 Jan 2028

A fracture rules Nicola Pavan out for 123 days

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

Match22 Jan 2028

Cittadella win it in stoppage time

The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 94th minute. Renate will replay every second of the added time for a week.

Player ratings24 Jan 2028

Both of them Simone Rabbi's — 8.67

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.67, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Market24 Jan 2028

Destiny Efosa Egharevba asks to leave Cittadella

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad24 Jan 2028

Alessio Rizza: 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.” Cittadella have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Match22 Jan 2028

Whatever happens, Cittadella 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.

Squad24 Jan 2028

Tempers go at Cittadella

Lorenzo Carissoni 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.

Match22 Jan 2028

Simone Rabbi the difference as Cittadella beat Renate

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Simone Rabbi. 2‑1 against Renate, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Match22 Jan 2028

Cittadella keep winning on the road

3 away wins in a row. Travelling support is the truest kind, and this season it is being repaid in the only currency that counts.

In brief

59 Edition

The Cittadella Chronicle

13 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match11 Sep 2027

18 unbeaten for Cittadella

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 18 matches without defeat is a foundation Cittadella did not have in the autumn.

Squad13 Sep 2027

A fracture rules Diego Falcinelli out for 144 days

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

Match11 Sep 2027

Cittadella make home a hard place to visit

17 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Market13 Sep 2027

Picerno join the queue for Matteo Angeli

Add another name to the list: Picerno have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Matteo Angeli. The answer from Cittadella has not changed — yet.

Squad13 Sep 2027

A muscle injury sidelines Alex Redolfi for 16 days

Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Cittadella will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.

Squad13 Sep 2027

Real improvement from Luca Mazzeo at Cittadella

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Luca Mazzeo is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad13 Sep 2027

Tempers go at Cittadella

Lorenzo Carissoni 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.

Loan watch13 Sep 2027

Eduard Ihnatov has seen enough of Arzignano

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Cittadella, and 1 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.

Market13 Sep 2027

Alessio Rizza is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Cittadella has been clear about where Alessio Rizza stands, which is more than many ever get.

In brief

26 Edition

The Cittadella Chronicle

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad25 Jan 2027

A fracture rules Nicola Pavan out for 93 days

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

Market25 Jan 2027

Francesco Amatucci puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Cittadella, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad25 Jan 2027

Alessio Rizza keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Cittadella may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Boardroom25 Jan 2027

Cittadella agree a free transfer for Tommaso Gatto

Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.

Squad25 Jan 2027

The manager makes an example of Alessio Vita

“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.

Match23 Jan 2027

A bad afternoon for Cittadella against Renate

0‑1 to Renate, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Player ratings25 Jan 2027

Nobody could get near Francesco D'Alessio

Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Boardroom25 Jan 2027

93% of the income goes out in wages at Cittadella

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

Squad25 Jan 2027

Francesco Amatucci suspended

One booking too many, and Francesco Amatucci sits out. Cittadella lose him for the sort of avoidable reason that makes a manager's week longer.

In brief