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Steady
Match23 Sep 2026
Trapani march on in the cup
Cavese are out and Trapani go through, 1‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Match23 Sep 2026
There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Trapani scored in the 91th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Federico Vázquez 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Carlo Evangelista is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Trapani training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Enrico Celeghin 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Enis Ujkaj 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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of Roberto Pirrello at his very best
Marked 8.45. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Trapani.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
A mark of 7.61, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Match26 Sep 2026
A 1‑1 draw with Catania leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
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Squad21 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 Trapani this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Federico Vázquez, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.84 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Trapani training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Enrico Celeghin 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
It finished 1‑0, and it was Federico Vázquez’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Trapani.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Riccardo Forte, and the manager let it.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 14 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Squad14 Sep 2026
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Trapani have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
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Crisis
The terraces7 Sep 2026
The boos come down from three sides
“We pay for this every fortnight. The least we want is somebody who looks like he cares.” 9 of the 30 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Enrico Celeghin 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Marcelo Pappano, and the manager let it.
Match5 Sep 2026
Siracusa left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad7 Sep 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
A mark of 5.28 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.
Market7 Sep 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Federico Vázquez’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Marked 5.75, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.
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Uneasy
Squad31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Flavio Ciuferri, and the manager let it.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Marked 8.48 — 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. 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
Cristian Ammucciato 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Trapani training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Carlo Evangelista 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
Squad24 Aug 2026
Enis Ujkaj 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 Trapani this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
Graduation day at Trapani
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
Enrico Celeghin 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. Leandro Graziani 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. Claudio Borghi 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
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Fabio Sartori 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
Flavio Ciuferri 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
Words at Trapani training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Enrico Celeghin 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
This league is too small for Tartá
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. Trapani will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
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Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
Federico Vázquez 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
No place for Ryder Matos in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Ryder Matos has his answer from Trapani; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Andrei Moţoc, and the manager let it.
Squad10 Aug 2026
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. Trapani will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Market10 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
At 36, he has seen every situation this season can produce, twice. The legs will be managed; the head is the purchase.
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Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Federico Vázquez and Trapani agree another 3 years.
Squad3 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 Trapani this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Amedeo Benedetti 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.