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Crisis
Match26 Dec 2026
8 matches without a win for Siracusa
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Siracusa are no longer polite ones.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Bryan Bonucci: 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.” Siracusa have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match26 Dec 2026
Siracusa cannot find the net
5 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Nicola Valente 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.
Match26 Dec 2026
A bad afternoon for Siracusa against Cavese
0‑2 to Cavese, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad28 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Gianni Manfrin, and the manager let it.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Carmelo Limonelli 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.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
113% of the income goes out in wages at Siracusa
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.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
9 shots, and a count that reads like a good afternoon until you check the other column. Strikers survive weeks like this on the understanding that the chances keep arriving; the day they stop is the day it becomes a problem.
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Match19 Dec 2026
The wait goes on for Siracusa
7 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match19 Dec 2026
The goals have deserted Siracusa
4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Siracusa can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Martín Suárez 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 Dec 2026
0‑1 to Sorrento, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad21 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Federico Pacciardi, and the manager let it.
Squad21 Dec 2026
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Siracusa told Enrico Di Gesù something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
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Match14 Dec 2026
Every point is an argument now for Siracusa
Position 19 and 10 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Match12 Dec 2026
6 matches without a win for Siracusa
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Siracusa are no longer polite ones.
Squad14 Dec 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad14 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 Siracusa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match12 Dec 2026
Siracusa 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.
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Boardroom7 Dec 2026
The scrutiny sharpens at Siracusa
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Siracusa is running low.
Match5 Dec 2026
5 matches without a win for Siracusa
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Siracusa are no longer polite ones.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Martín Suárez 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 Dec 2026
A muscle injury sidelines Emerson Catarina for 18 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Siracusa will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad7 Dec 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words at Siracusa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Emerson Catarina 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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Crisis
Match28 Nov 2026
0‑3 to Altamura, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Match28 Nov 2026
No end in sight to Siracusa's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Siracusa has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad30 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 Siracusa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad30 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Emerson Catarina 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.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
107% of the income goes out in wages at Siracusa
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.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Nobody's fault and entirely his: a goal that goes into the book with his name against it and nothing about it intended. Siracusa deserved better, and so did he.
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Squad23 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Siracusa may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Martín Suárez 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.
Match21 Nov 2026
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
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Match16 Nov 2026
Siracusa are in real trouble now
Position 17, 9 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Nicola Valente 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
Emerson Catarina 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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Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.30 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
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 Siracusa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match7 Nov 2026
Benevento left with the points after a 3‑4 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Match7 Nov 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 7 goals between Siracusa and Benevento, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Squad9 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words at Siracusa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Emerson Catarina 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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Uneasy
Squad2 Nov 2026
Bassidy Sanogo: 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.” Siracusa have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad2 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 Siracusa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match31 Oct 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Gianluca Contini’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Siracusa.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
107% of the income goes out in wages at Siracusa
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.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 15 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Emerson Catarina dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
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Crisis
Match24 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Siracusa
9 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Martín Suárez 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Siracusa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Emerson Catarina 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Siracusa told Martín Suárez something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
Squad26 Oct 2026
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Alessandro Farroni knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
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Uneasy
Match17 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Siracusa
8 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad19 Oct 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.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Age has not caught Maiko Candiano yet — 7.92
At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.92 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad19 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 Siracusa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Emerson Catarina 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
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Crisis
Match10 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Siracusa
7 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Martín Suárez 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Daniel Theiner is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Match10 Oct 2026
The goals have deserted Siracusa
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Siracusa can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Maiko Candiano, and the manager let it.
Match10 Oct 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
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Match3 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Siracusa
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad5 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 Siracusa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Alioune Sylla is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages eat 138% of everything Siracusa 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Nicola Valente
“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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Emerson Catarina 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.
Market5 Oct 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Audace Cerignola defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
Market5 Oct 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Gianluca Contini’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Match23 Sep 2026
Cosenza ended it 1‑2. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Squad28 Sep 2026
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.
Match26 Sep 2026
5 matches without a win for Siracusa
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Siracusa are no longer polite ones.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Bryan Bonucci is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
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 Siracusa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 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
Squad21 Sep 2026
Nicola Valente 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
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Christian Bonacchi, and the manager let it.
Squad21 Sep 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 Siracusa would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
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Uneasy
Squad14 Sep 2026
Martín Suárez 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.
Squad14 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 Siracusa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Emerson Catarina 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Giulio Frisenna dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Match12 Sep 2026
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Foggia came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
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.
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Squad7 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
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 Siracusa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Gianni Manfrin, and the manager let it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
6 new faces, and Siracusa 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.
Match5 Sep 2026
It needed Gianluca Contini to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Trapani, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Market7 Sep 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Gianluca Contini’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Uneasy
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 Siracusa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match29 Aug 2026
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Giulio Frisenna dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
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Market24 Aug 2026
Alioune Sylla hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Siracusa can pretend not to have heard.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Nicola Valente 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 Siracusa
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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Valerio Fabbri is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market24 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Valerio Bertolini is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market24 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ignazio Colombo is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
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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 Siracusa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Aug 2026
This league is too small for Gianni Manfrin
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Siracusa will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Market17 Aug 2026
At 33, he has seen every situation this season can produce, twice. The legs will be managed; the head is the purchase.
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Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Simone Iob commits to Siracusa for another 4 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 Siracusa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Simone Iob gets it from the manager
“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.
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 Siracusa, another week without a signature from Carmelo Limonelli.
Market10 Aug 2026
The clock runs on Filippo Damian's contract
36 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
Market10 Aug 2026
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Alioune Sylla has his answer from Siracusa; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
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Squad3 Aug 2026
419 appearances across 8 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Maiko Candiano and Siracusa agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Nicola Valente 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.