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Steady
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 38. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Jakob Schragl
31 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Carrarese lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Marco Bleve 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 Carrarese this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Nicolò Calabrese is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Carrarese training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marco Imperiale 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.
Match10 Oct 2026
Empoli left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
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Steady
Squad5 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Jakob Schragl
38 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Carrarese lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Mattia Finotto, 33, rolls back the years — 9.12
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 9.12 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Market5 Oct 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 The request is on a desk at Carrarese, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Antonio Troise is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Marco Bleve 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Marco Imperiale 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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Upbeat
Squad28 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Jakob Schragl
45 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Carrarese lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match23 Sep 2026
Carrarese march on in the cup
Vis Pesaro are out and Carrarese go through, 1‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
35 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
Match23 Sep 2026
Carrarese win it in stoppage time
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 116th minute. Vis Pesaro will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Nicolò Calabrese, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 9.18
A mark of 9.18 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.
Squad28 Sep 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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Defensive actions: 26. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Marco Imperiale 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 ratings28 Sep 2026
Luis Hasa runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 21. 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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Crisis
Squad21 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Jakob Schragl
52 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Carrarese lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Luis Hasa is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Marco Bleve 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Marco Imperiale 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
0‑1 to Reggiana, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. 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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Steady
Squad14 Sep 2026
A one-man rearguard from Marco Bleve
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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Age has not caught Mattia Finotto yet — 9.50
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 9.50 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Defensive actions: 23. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Marco Bleve 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 Carrarese this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Carrarese training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marco Imperiale 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Mattia Finotto. 1‑0 against Spezia, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Devid Bouah
“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.
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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Defensive actions: 15, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
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Uneasy
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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Marco Bleve 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Antonio Troise is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Market7 Sep 2026
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Perugia moved on, Stefano Mazzini reports back to Carrarese, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Marco Imperiale 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 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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Wages eat 479% of everything Carrarese 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.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Nikola Sekulov was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.78. 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.
Squad7 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.
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Uneasy
Squad31 Aug 2026
A one-man rearguard from Marco Bleve
There were 8 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.95 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Market31 Aug 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 Carrarese can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Marco Bleve 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 Carrarese this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Carrarese training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marco Imperiale 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
Market24 Aug 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 Carrarese can pretend not to have heard.
Market24 Aug 2026
Bra come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Carrarese did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Marco Bleve 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
3 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Marco Imperiale 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Raffaele Castelli 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
Market17 Aug 2026
Monopoli come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Carrarese did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Marco Imperiale 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Simone Zanon 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
The phone has started ringing about Stefano Mazzini again, and this time the name on the line is Bra. Carrarese are listening politely and promising nothing.
Market17 Aug 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Ernesto Torregrossa’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Carrarese would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
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Steady
Market10 Aug 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 Carrarese can pretend not to have heard.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Emanuele Zuelli and Carrarese agree another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Marco Bleve 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 Carrarese this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Carrarese training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marco Imperiale 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Marco Imperiale’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
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Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
A move Francesco Sartori would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Francesco Sartori is living that version at Carrarese, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Julián Illanes commits to Carrarese for another 4 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Marco Bleve 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Marco Imperiale 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Carrarese has been clear about where Ernesto Torregrossa stands, which is more than many ever get.
Market3 Aug 2026
The name of Federico Accornero has come up in conversations Carrarese were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.