From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match23 Sep 2026
Bra through in the cup
A 0‑0 win over Catanzaro, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Squad28 Sep 2026
1 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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
It is a hard way to meet a crowd. Marked 5.48 on the day he was handed the shirt, and the important thing now is what the next one looks like.
Squad28 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 Bra this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Enrico Baldini, and the manager let it.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Leo Reis 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
Bra and Ascoli cancel each other out
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Ascoli came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
A mark of 5.20 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
A mark of 5.58 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.
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Steady
Match19 Sep 2026
4‑0, and Franklyn Akammadu took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Bra tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The match ball belongs to Franklyn Akammadu, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Mattia Leoncini, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.07
A mark of 8.07 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Bra
Enrico Baldini 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 ratings21 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of Franklyn Akammadu at his very best
Marked 8.93. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Bra.
The terraces21 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Matteo Pautassi
“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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Damiano Lia 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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Defensive actions: 12. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
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Crisis
Squad14 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Bra
Franklyn Akammadu 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Bra cannot find the net
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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Guidonia Montecelio left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad14 Sep 2026
14 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Eros De Santis
“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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Bra training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Damiano Lia 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 ratings14 Sep 2026
Marked 5.31, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 11. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
5.62. Every footballer has these and most of them happen away from a full ground; his did not, and he will be aware of that all week.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market7 Sep 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Bra can pretend not to have heard.
Squad7 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 Bra this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces7 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Bra training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Leo Reis 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 Sep 2026
6 new faces, and Bra 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.
Squad7 Sep 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 Sep 2026
No goals between Bra and Perugia
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Perugia will be the happier side with the point.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Marked 5.19, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
A mark of 5.72 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market31 Aug 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Bra
Franklyn Akammadu 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Arezzo take the points off Bra
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad31 Aug 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Jacopo Sassi knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Jacopo Sassi is still paying for one afternoon at Bra
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
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Steady
Market24 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 Bra, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Bra
Enrico Baldini 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.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
Graduation day at Bra
1 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Market24 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Leonardo Cipriani 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Bra training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Francesco Cucciniello 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
No investment in the facilities at Bra
Nothing about this will be in a press release. A plan went upstairs, came back rejected, and the version of the club that would have existed in three years' time just quietly stopped being possible.
From our football correspondent
Steady
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 Bra this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market17 Aug 2026
The name of Samuele Giallombardo has come up in conversations Bra were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad17 Aug 2026
42 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Jacopo Sassi and Bra agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 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 Bra this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market10 Aug 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Alessandro Fiordaliso has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Bra.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Jacopo Sassi has outgrown this division
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Bra know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
Market10 Aug 2026
He is 18, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
Market10 Aug 2026
Kayden Lucas is 18, and Bra 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.
In brief
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Market
Bra buy the years ahead of Leo Reis
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Squad
5 new faces, and Bra are still learning each other
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Enrico Baldini and Bra agree another 3 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Bra
Enrico Baldini 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Enrico Baldini has his answer from Bra; what he does with it is the next window’s story.