From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad14 Sep 2026
Emile Samyn 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 Dolomiti Bellunesi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings14 Sep 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
AlbinoLeffe left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
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Uneasy
Squad7 Sep 2026
Alexis Busin 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 Dolomiti Bellunesi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Dolomiti Bellunesi training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Riccardo Brugnolo 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
A season on the outside for Emile Samyn
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Dolomiti Bellunesi has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
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Crisis
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 Dolomiti Bellunesi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Nolhan Assafoua gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Nolhan Assafoua has just signed for Dolomiti Bellunesi, and for once the answer mattered.
Match29 Aug 2026
Eljon Toci scored, and precious little else went right: 2‑3 to Novara, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Emile Samyn 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Daniele Mignanelli, and the manager let it.
Market31 Aug 2026
Nolhan Assafoua is 20, and Dolomiti Bellunesi 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.
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Steady
Squad24 Aug 2026
Alexis Busin 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 Dolomiti Bellunesi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
4 academy players handed senior numbers at Dolomiti Bellunesi
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Market24 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Alfonso Santoro 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Stefano Benedetti 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Sergio 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Valerio 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.
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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 Dolomiti Bellunesi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Riccardo Brugnolo 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.
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 Dolomiti Bellunesi would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
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Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Luca Clemenza and Dolomiti Bellunesi agree another 3 years.
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 Dolomiti Bellunesi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market10 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Dolomiti Bellunesi, another week without a signature from Alberto Zecchin.
Market10 Aug 2026
He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Luca Clemenza asks for a word with the manager
“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.
Market10 Aug 2026
61 months and counting on Louis Agosti
Still no offer on the table, and Louis Agosti’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
“The easiest signature of my career.” Salvatore Burrai and Dolomiti Bellunesi agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Daniele Mignanelli 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
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.