Danilo Russo

Goalkeeper - Benevento
24 Jan 2027
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16 Edition

The Benevento Herald

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad16 Nov 2026

Mattia Maita 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 Benevento this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings16 Nov 2026

Nobody could get near Raffaele Celia

Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad16 Nov 2026

Leonardo Sernicola 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 dugout16 Nov 2026

Emanuele Farina on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Emanuele Farina after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

The dugout16 Nov 2026

Benevento pick somebody else ahead of Giacomo Ricci

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.

The dugout16 Nov 2026

When it matters, Mattia Mannini plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

The dugout16 Nov 2026

No hiding place for Danilo Russo

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

Loan watch16 Nov 2026

The goals keep arriving from Mario Perlingieri’s exile

7 goals in 11 games at Cosenza — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Benevento updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.

Match14 Nov 2026

Benevento draw a blank against Crotone

The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Crotone defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.

In brief

Back issues
15 Edition

The Benevento Herald

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match4 Nov 2026

The small margins put Benevento out

Out, 0‑1 to Juve Stabia, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Player ratings9 Nov 2026

Nobody could get near Pier Luigi Simonetti

Successful dribbles: 31. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The dugout9 Nov 2026

Danilo Russo: 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.” Benevento have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad9 Nov 2026

Tempers go at Benevento

Mattia Maita 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

Marco Tumminello is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.34 with 10 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Match7 Nov 2026

Benevento find a way past Siracusa

Siracusa made Benevento work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad9 Nov 2026

Words at Benevento training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Leonardo Sernicola 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 ratings9 Nov 2026

A masterclass from Mattia Maita

Marked 8.29 — 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.

Player ratings9 Nov 2026

Marco Tumminello in the eights

A performance of 8.12 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

In brief

9 Edition

The Benevento Herald

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

Pier Luigi Simonetti runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 36. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Danilo Russo decides it from twelve yards

2 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.

Match23 Sep 2026

Benevento through in the cup

A 0‑0 win over Dolomiti Bellunesi, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Squad28 Sep 2026

A falling-out at Benevento

Mattia Maita 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

Whatever happens, Benevento do not lose

6 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.

The terraces28 Sep 2026

One of their own: Luigi Cherubini

He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Match26 Sep 2026

Luigi Cherubini sends Benevento past Casertana

It finished 2‑0, and it was Luigi Cherubini’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Benevento.

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

A masterclass from Luigi Cherubini

Marked 8.39 — 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.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Words at Benevento training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Leonardo Sernicola 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.

In brief