From our football correspondent
Triumph
Squad1 Feb 2027
47 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Audace Cerignola lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match30 Jan 2027
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 4‑1 against Potenza, and it could have been more.
Match30 Jan 2027
The unbeaten run reaches 12. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad1 Feb 2027
3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Squad1 Feb 2027
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market1 Feb 2027
“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.
Boardroom1 Feb 2027
Deadline passes with 0 signed and 0 gone
That is the business done at Audace Cerignola until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Player ratings1 Feb 2027
Marked 9.73 — 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Words at Audace Cerignola training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Antonio Boccadamo 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.
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Upbeat
Squad25 Jan 2027
18 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Udinese keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Empoli have kept their man, and Audace Cerignola go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Antonio Boccadamo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
Parma have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
Inter have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Words at Audace Cerignola training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Martin Cocorocchio 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.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
The manager has not finished forgetting Claudio Parlato's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Looking ahead25 Jan 2027
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Giovanni Volpe’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Audace Cerignola needing him to play as if none of it matters.
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Upbeat
Squad18 Jan 2027
10 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Match16 Jan 2027
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 11 matches without defeat is a foundation Audace Cerignola did not have in the autumn.
Match16 Jan 2027
Every run ends on an afternoon somebody had marked down as routine. This one went 8 matches, which is long enough that a town had stopped counting, and short enough that it will remember exactly who stopped it.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
Audace Cerignola asked and Palermo said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Kevin Miranda 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Antonio Boccadamo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Match16 Jan 2027
Level with 86 minutes on the clock, after an afternoon Audace Cerignola had all but put away. Foggia will call it a point earned; the home dressing room will call it two given away, and both of them are right.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Triumph
Match9 Jan 2027
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 4‑1 against Trapani, and it could have been more.
Match9 Jan 2027
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Audace Cerignola have 8 straight wins of it.
Squad11 Jan 2027
3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
A performance of 9.68 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match9 Jan 2027
9 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Atalanta have kept their man, and Audace Cerignola go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Antonio Boccadamo 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.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
A performance of 8.43 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Andrea Gasbarro was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Triumph
Match2 Jan 2027
7 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 ratings4 Jan 2027
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.45, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad4 Jan 2027
There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Audace Cerignola will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.
Match2 Jan 2027
Another one collected away from home
4 on the bounce on the road for Audace Cerignola. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Andrea Gasbarro 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.
Match2 Jan 2027
A 2‑1 win over Casertana, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
In brief
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Transfer targets
A loan move for Otto Stange is in the works
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Squad
Andrea Gasbarro makes the team of the month
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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Triumph
Squad28 Dec 2026
A fracture rules Luca Martinelli out for 19 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Audace Cerignola will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.90, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.03, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Match26 Dec 2026
6 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.
Match26 Dec 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 8 goals between Audace Cerignola and Giugliano, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Antonio Boccadamo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The terraces28 Dec 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Claudio Parlato 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.
Match26 Dec 2026
8 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
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Triumph
Squad21 Dec 2026
A fracture rules Luca Martinelli out for 26 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Audace Cerignola will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match19 Dec 2026
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Audace Cerignola have 5 straight wins of it.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match19 Dec 2026
A 3‑2 win over Cavese, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Antonio Boccadamo 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.
The terraces21 Dec 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Cristian Padula 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.
Match19 Dec 2026
Another one collected away from home
3 on the bounce on the road for Audace Cerignola. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
A performance of 8.45 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Ninety minutes of Carmine Cretella at his very best
Marked 8.36. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Audace Cerignola.
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Upbeat
Squad14 Dec 2026
33 days out for Luca Martinelli after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Audace Cerignola will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match12 Dec 2026
4‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
A brace, and Lorenzo Paolucci takes the afternoon — 7.98
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Lorenzo Paolucci provided it, and the 7.98 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Match12 Dec 2026
4 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Antonio Boccadamo 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.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
A performance of 8.35 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Ninety minutes of Giovanni Volpe at his very best
Marked 8.06. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Audace Cerignola.
The dugout14 Dec 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.” Riccardo Rocca kept it short after the 4‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Martin Cocorocchio was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Upbeat
Squad7 Dec 2026
41 days out for Luca Martinelli after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Audace Cerignola will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match5 Dec 2026
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad7 Dec 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 Audace Cerignola this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market7 Dec 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Samuele Bianco 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.
Market7 Dec 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Francesco Salvatore has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market7 Dec 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Flavio Schiavone 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words at Audace Cerignola training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Antonio Boccadamo 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.
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Steady
Squad30 Nov 2026
48 days out for Luca Martinelli after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Audace Cerignola will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match28 Nov 2026
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Picerno, and it could have been more.
Squad30 Nov 2026
3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Antonio Boccadamo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Ninety minutes of Giovanni Volpe at his very best
Marked 8.41. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Audace Cerignola.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Andrea Gasbarro was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
87% of the income goes out in wages at Audace Cerignola
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.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 3‑0, already talking about the next one.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Edqui Amaro, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Squad23 Nov 2026
55 days out for Luca Martinelli after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Audace Cerignola will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Ludovico D'Orazio
19 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Audace Cerignola lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match21 Nov 2026
6 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Altamura were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Antonio Boccadamo 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.
The terraces23 Nov 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Cristian Padula 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.
Match21 Nov 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Cristian Padula. 1‑0 against Altamura, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
7.94, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Audace Cerignola had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Marco Meli was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Uneasy
Squad16 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Luca Martinelli out for 63 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Audace Cerignola will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad16 Nov 2026
27 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Audace Cerignola lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match14 Nov 2026
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Audace Cerignola are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Kevin Miranda 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Antonio Boccadamo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alan Martínez, and the manager let it.
Match14 Nov 2026
A goal on 87 minutes turned three points into one and a good afternoon into an argument about game management that will run until Saturday.
Match14 Nov 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
In brief
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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The dugout
No place in the plan for Alan Martínez
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The dugout
Francesco Sena asks for a word with the manager
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad9 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Luca Martinelli out for 71 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Audace Cerignola will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Ludovico D'Orazio
34 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Audace Cerignola lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match4 Nov 2026
Bari go through and Audace Cerignola go home, 0‑4 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
The terraces9 Nov 2026
0-4. Going out of a cup is one afternoon; going out like that is a week of phone-ins, and the manager will hear every one of them.
Match7 Nov 2026
No end in sight to Audace Cerignola's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Audace Cerignola has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad9 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 Audace Cerignola this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Cristian Padula
“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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Crisis
Squad2 Nov 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 78 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Ludovico D'Orazio 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Antonio Boccadamo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match31 Oct 2026
Diego Gambale scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Benevento, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑2 Riccardo Rocca left the room before anybody could ask which.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
87% of the income goes out in wages at Audace Cerignola
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.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Marco Meli
“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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad26 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Luca Martinelli out for 85 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Audace Cerignola will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Ludovico D'Orazio
48 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Audace Cerignola lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Kevin Miranda 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.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Antonio Boccadamo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout26 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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
Match24 Oct 2026
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Catania came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
5 attempts, none of them in. He got into the right places all afternoon, which is the hard part, and did the easy part badly — and that is the version of a bad day a manager can live with.
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Steady
Squad19 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Luca Martinelli out for 92 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Audace Cerignola will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Ludovico D'Orazio
57 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Audace Cerignola lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Antonio Boccadamo 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
Two or more conceded in each of the last 4 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.
Match17 Oct 2026
0‑2 to Latina, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Andrea Gasbarro 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 dugout19 Oct 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑2 defeat, delivered by Riccardo Rocca to a room that had heard them before.
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Upbeat
Squad12 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Luca Martinelli out for 99 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Audace Cerignola will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad12 Oct 2026
64 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Audace Cerignola lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
A brace, and Diego Gambale takes the afternoon — 9.03
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Diego Gambale provided it, and the 9.03 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Two of the goals had his name somewhere on them, which is the afternoon a manager wants from anybody asked to both create and finish. 7.93, and 3 involvements.
Player ratings12 Oct 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.
Match10 Oct 2026
A 4‑2 win over Crotone, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
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 Audace Cerignola this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Steady
Squad5 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 106 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Ludovico D'Orazio
71 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Audace Cerignola lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match3 Oct 2026
1‑4 against Siracusa, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Kevin Miranda and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Antonio Boccadamo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages swallow 112% of the Audace Cerignola income
Every club 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 it has been tried.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Nobody left the Audace Cerignola dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
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Upbeat
Squad28 Sep 2026
113 days out for Luca Martinelli after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Audace Cerignola will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Ludovico D'Orazio damages knee ligaments — 78 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 78 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.
Match23 Sep 2026
There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Audace Cerignola scored in the 94th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
No sign of nerves from Claudio Parlato at 21 — 7.95
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Claudio Parlato did not need any: 7.95, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Marked 7.87. There is a kind of forward whose value only shows up when you count what he was involved in rather than what he finished, and this is the day that argument makes itself.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Giuseppe Fares is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Kevin Miranda 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.
The terraces28 Sep 2026
At 21 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.
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Upbeat
Squad21 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Luca Martinelli out for 120 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Audace Cerignola will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Ludovico D'Orazio damages knee ligaments — 85 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 85 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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 28. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad21 Sep 2026
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Kevin Miranda 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
Potenza made Audace Cerignola work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Diego Gambale was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.04. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Riccardo Rocca, on a 2‑1 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
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Steady
Squad14 Sep 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 128 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad14 Sep 2026
92 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Audace Cerignola lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad14 Sep 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 Audace Cerignola this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market14 Sep 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Gregorio Galli has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market14 Sep 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Giorgio Monti 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.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Audace Cerignola training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andrea Gasbarro 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.
Looking ahead14 Sep 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Giovanni Volpe’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Audace Cerignola needing him to play as if none of it matters.
Market14 Sep 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Audace Cerignola, another week without a signature from Bruno Fassetta Argüello.
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Steady
Squad7 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Luca Martinelli out for 135 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Audace Cerignola will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Ludovico D'Orazio damages knee ligaments — 99 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 99 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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Deadline passes with 15 signed and 5 gone
That is the business done at Audace Cerignola until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at PAOK is saying, and nobody at Audace Cerignola is enjoying the guessing.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Kevin Miranda and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match5 Sep 2026
0‑1 to Foggia, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Audace Cerignola training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andrea Gasbarro 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.
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Triumph
Squad31 Aug 2026
A fracture rules Luca Martinelli out for 143 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Audace Cerignola will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Ludovico D'Orazio damages knee ligaments — 108 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 108 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 31. 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.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
The deal with PAOK is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Audace Cerignola 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.
Squad31 Aug 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 Audace Cerignola this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
At 22 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Trapani made Audace Cerignola work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Kevin Miranda was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Steady
Squad24 Aug 2026
150 days out for Luca Martinelli after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Audace Cerignola will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Ludovico D'Orazio damages knee ligaments — 115 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 115 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Audace Cerignola asked and Slavia Prague 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
Kevin Miranda 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Audace Cerignola training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andrea Gasbarro 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to NK Celje: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
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Steady
Squad17 Aug 2026
122 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Audace Cerignola lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
No thanks: Cristo rejects the move
Audace Cerignola had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Lazio, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A muscle injury and 14 days out for Alan Martínez
The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Audace Cerignola will quote 14 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Audace Cerignola asked and Pro Vercelli said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad17 Aug 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 Audace Cerignola this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Andrea Gasbarro 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.
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Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
Edqui Amaro gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Edqui Amaro has just signed for Audace Cerignola, and for once the answer mattered.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Kevin Miranda 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Gennaro Greco 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. Danilo Gentile 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
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Danilo Cattaneo 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.
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Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Luca Martinelli and Audace Cerignola agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Utrecht have kept their man, and Audace Cerignola go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Kevin Miranda and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Andrea Gasbarro was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market3 Aug 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Market3 Aug 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Giovanni Volpe’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Audace Cerignola are still strangers to each other
10 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan move for Joseph Mangondo is in the works
Audace Cerignola have made the call to FC Metz. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan move for Tancredi Vella is in the works
Audace Cerignola have made the call to Catanzaro. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.