Marked for Massimo Coda
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Upbeat
Squad19 Oct 2026
Massimo Coda breaks a bone — 51 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 51 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Fabrizio Caligara 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
Still nobody has beaten Catania
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
The terraces19 Oct 2026
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match17 Oct 2026
Every run ends on an afternoon somebody had marked down as routine. This one went 5 matches, which is long enough that a town had stopped counting, and short enough that it will remember exactly who stopped it.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Catania training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andrea Corbari 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 ratings19 Oct 2026
Marked 8.07 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
The dugout19 Oct 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
It needed Nicolò Cavuoti to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Potenza, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
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Squad12 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Massimo Coda out for 59 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Catania will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
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 Catania this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alessandro Quaini, and the manager let it.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Salvatore Caturano’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Catania needing him to play as if none of it matters.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Andrea Corbari has written the date down.
Market12 Oct 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Giovanni Bruzzaniti’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Triumph
Squad5 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Massimo Coda out for 66 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Catania will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
A brace, and Francesco Forte takes the afternoon — 8.91
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Francesco Forte provided it, and the 8.91 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Match3 Oct 2026
Catania make it 5 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Catania have 5 straight wins of it.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
At 34 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.00, and nobody on the pitch better.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Catania training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Fabrizio Caligara 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 Oct 2026
Casarano made Catania work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Match3 Oct 2026
Catania 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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages eat 118% of everything Catania earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
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Triumph
Squad28 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Massimo Coda out for 73 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Catania will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match26 Sep 2026
Some goals win a match and some take one off somebody else. Daniele Donnarumma scored in the 89th minute, Foggia had already begun thinking about the journey home, and Catania took the lot.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
At 34 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.34, and nobody on the pitch better.
Match26 Sep 2026
Catania cannot stop winning
4 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
A defender's goal wins it for Catania — 7.77
1 for Mario Ierardi, marked 7.77, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Catania
Massimo Coda and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match26 Sep 2026
A 2‑1 win over Foggia, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad28 Sep 2026
11 new faces, and Catania are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 2‑1, already talking about the next one.
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Triumph
Squad21 Sep 2026
18 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Catania lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Massimo Coda breaks a bone — 82 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 82 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.75 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Match19 Sep 2026
Catania make it 3 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Catania have 3 straight wins of it.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Massimo Coda 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 Catania this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match19 Sep 2026
Three points for Catania, 3‑1 the final word against Casertana in a contest settled by the finer margins.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Alessandro Brambilla kept it short after the 3‑1 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Riccardo Cargnelutti, and the manager let it.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The division's best last weekend was a Catania man
It is a small honour and it is not nothing: somebody watched every match in the division and decided that Salvatore Caturano was the best thing in any of them.
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Triumph
Squad14 Sep 2026
Marco Perrotta damages knee ligaments — 25 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 25 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Massimo Coda out for 91 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Catania will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Francesco Forte, 33, rolls back the years — 7.91
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.91 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Fabrizio Caligara 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 terraces14 Sep 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Filippo Rinaldi 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Three points for Catania, 1‑0 the final word against Giugliano in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 1‑0, already talking about the next one.
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Upbeat
Squad7 Sep 2026
33 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Catania lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Massimo Coda out for 99 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Catania will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market7 Sep 2026
“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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 8 in, 3 out at Catania
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 8 arrived, 3 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Squad7 Sep 2026
16 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Catania
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Fabrizio Caligara was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Triumph
Squad31 Aug 2026
Marco Perrotta damages knee ligaments — 41 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 41 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Massimo Coda breaks a bone — 109 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 109 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market31 Aug 2026
“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 Catania, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.16 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Match29 Aug 2026
A 2‑1 win over Crotone, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Nicolò Cavuoti 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Ninety minutes of Nicolò Cavuoti at his very best
Marked 8.01. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Catania.
Squad31 Aug 2026
32 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Catania
11 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
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Steady
Squad24 Aug 2026
Marco Perrotta damages knee ligaments — 49 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 49 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Massimo Coda breaks a bone — 117 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 117 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Catania asked and Stripfing said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Catania training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Fabrizio Caligara 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.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
Catania say no to the training-ground money
The plan went upstairs and came back down. Nothing about that will make a headline anywhere else, and everybody who works at the training ground will remember it for years.
Looking ahead24 Aug 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Crotone in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
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Steady
Squad17 Aug 2026
Marco Perrotta damages knee ligaments — 56 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 56 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A fracture rules Massimo Coda out for 124 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Catania will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market17 Aug 2026
Spezia pay $690.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
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Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
Massimo Coda breaks a bone — 132 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 132 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Catania
Massimo Coda and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Salvatore Caturano and Catania agree another 2 years.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Catania asked and Cremonese said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Mirko Villa has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Dario Ferraro is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Fabrizio Altieri is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Mariano Tedesco is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Steady
Market3 Aug 2026
Catania say no — this time
The offer from Ordabasy for Klāvs Bethers was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Massimo Coda commits to Catania for another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Catania
Massimo Coda and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Catania
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Fabrizio Caligara was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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 Catania, another week without a signature from Massimo Coda.
Market3 Aug 2026
24 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.