From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Trapani
Federico Vázquez and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad28 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Trapani
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Gianni Manfrin was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad28 Dec 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Cristian Ammucciato and Trapani agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Trapani, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
Christian Nina has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Trapani will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Market28 Dec 2026
The name of Enrico Celeghin keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Trapani say nothing, which says plenty.
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Steady
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words at Trapani training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pasqualino Ortisi 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Diego Marcolini 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.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Pierpaolo Ventura chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
The dugout21 Dec 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.
Match19 Dec 2026
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Foggia defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Simone Nicoli gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Simone Nicoli is on it.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Off the academy pitches and into a senior shirt, at 14. The parents in the stand will keep the programme, and so will he.
The dugout21 Dec 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 ratings21 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 9. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Upbeat
Squad14 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Trapani
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Gianni Manfrin was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The terraces14 Dec 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Salvatore Di Mitri has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match12 Dec 2026
Casarano made Trapani work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad14 Dec 2026
A falling-out at Trapani
Christian Nina and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Pierpaolo Ventura kept it short after the 1‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Nobody at Trapani will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Looking ahead14 Dec 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Foggia in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
The substitution nobody applauded turned out to be the whole story. Trapani were going nowhere until he came on.
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Crisis
Squad7 Dec 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.
Squad7 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 Trapani this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Gianni Manfrin 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.
Match5 Dec 2026
Casertana left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Flavio Ciuferri ran the middle of the pitch — 6.72
He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 9 combined actions and a mark of 6.72, and not one of them will make a highlights package.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Giovanni Aronica commits to Trapani for another 3 years.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Pierpaolo Ventura after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Looking ahead7 Dec 2026
Casarano next, and one man in the Trapani dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Steady
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Up for the corner, and Gabriele Morelli delivers — 7.76
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Gabriele Morelli scored, was marked 7.76, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Trapani
Cesare Galeotti and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words at Trapani training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pasqualino Ortisi 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.
The dugout30 Nov 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.
Match28 Nov 2026
It needed Gabriele Morelli to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Giugliano, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Pierpaolo Ventura was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the Trapani dressing room was either.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 12. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad30 Nov 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.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Crisis
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Up for the corner, and Enrico Celeghin delivers — 7.68
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Enrico Celeghin scored, was marked 7.68, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Trapani
Federico Vázquez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match21 Nov 2026
Cavese left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words at Trapani training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gianni Manfrin 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.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Pierpaolo Ventura after 2‑3, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Ten men and a goalkeeper behind him, and it still finished in the net. He knew before anybody told him, and nobody at Trapani needed to.
The dugout23 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.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Cristiano La Sorsa's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Looking ahead23 Nov 2026
Giugliano next, and one man in the Trapani dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
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Steady
Squad16 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 Trapani this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Gianni Manfrin 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.
Match14 Nov 2026
A 1‑0 win over Sorrento, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
A mark of 7.71, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 1‑0, already talking about the next one.
Player ratings16 Nov 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.
The dugout16 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.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Trapani, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Player ratings16 Nov 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.
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Uneasy
Match4 Nov 2026
The small margins put Trapani out
Out, 1‑2 to Avellino, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 30. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Salvatore Di Mitri did not need any: 7.80, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Match7 Nov 2026
It had gone 7 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.
Squad9 Nov 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.
The terraces9 Nov 2026
At 22 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.
Match7 Nov 2026
It finished 2‑0, and it was Flavio Ciuferri’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Trapani.
Market9 Nov 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Gianluca Greco 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.
Market9 Nov 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Adriano Grasso 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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Uneasy
Match31 Oct 2026
6 matches without a win for Trapani
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Trapani are no longer polite ones.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Trapani
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Gianni Manfrin was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Amadou Makhtarlayi Sarr, and the manager let it.
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 Trapani this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad2 Nov 2026
It will be explained as a change for the team and it may even be one. Nobody who has worn one believes that, and neither does the man who has just had it taken away.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Nothing is announced when this happens and everybody knows. He is a bigger part of the plan at Trapani than he was a month ago, and the training ground worked that out before the team sheet said so.
Match31 Oct 2026
Point won or two lost for Trapani?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Picerno? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Christian Nina is on it.
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Crisis
Match24 Oct 2026
5 matches without a win for Trapani
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Trapani are no longer polite ones.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Trapani training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gianni Manfrin 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
Trapani leaking at the back
4 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.
Match24 Oct 2026
Altamura left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad26 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 Trapani this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Flavio Ciuferri
“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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
8 new faces, and Trapani 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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. 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
Squad19 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Cesare Galeotti is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Match17 Oct 2026
4 matches without a win for Trapani
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Trapani are no longer polite ones.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Cesare Galeotti 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
Riccardo Forte scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑3 to Cosenza, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Cesare Galeotti
“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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Trapani training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pasqualino Ortisi 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.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑3, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 12. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad19 Oct 2026
One booking too many, and a game watched from the stand. Trapani lose him for the most avoidable reason in the sport.
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Crisis
Squad12 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 Trapani this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Flavio Ciuferri and Trapani agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Gianni Manfrin 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.
Match10 Oct 2026
Salernitana left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Market12 Oct 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Enrico Bonaventura 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Valerio Colletti is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Till Winkelmann, and the manager let it.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Flavio Ciuferri trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Crisis
Squad5 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 14 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match3 Oct 2026
Nowhere to hide for Trapani
0‑3 against Benevento, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Riccardo Forte 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
Words at Trapani training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gianni Manfrin 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
200 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Nobody left the Trapani dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages eat 102% of everything Trapani 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.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑3, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Nobody's fault and entirely his: a goal that goes into the book with his name against it and nothing about it intended. Trapani deserved better, and so did he.
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Steady
Match23 Sep 2026
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Angelo Vapore obliged against Cavese. 1‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Trapani.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
No sign of nerves from Angelo Vapore at 20 — 7.85
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Angelo Vapore did not need any: 7.85, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
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 Trapani this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces28 Sep 2026
He is 20 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Trapani training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pasqualino Ortisi 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
Late, late show earns Trapani a point
Minute 91, against Catania, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Amadou Makhtarlayi Sarr, and the manager let it.
Squad28 Sep 2026
8 new faces, and Trapani 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
A 1‑1 draw with Catania leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
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Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Trapani
Riccardo Forte and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Trapani training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gianni Manfrin 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
A goal on 89 minutes turned three points into one and a good afternoon into an argument about game management that will run until Saturday.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Christian Nina, and the manager let it.
Match19 Sep 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.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Pierpaolo Ventura after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
He was not in the side at half past three and he had settled it before five. Half an hour, and Trapani had a different afternoon.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 8. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Trapani
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Gianni Manfrin was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market14 Sep 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ruggero Agostini is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market14 Sep 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Riccardo Barone 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.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
The clock did what Pro Vercelli would not, and ended it. Supporters who watched the countdown will spend the next window doing it again.
Match12 Sep 2026
A bad afternoon for Trapani against Crotone
0‑1 to Crotone, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Luca Napolitano
“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
A Trapani teenager takes the young player award
Salvatore Di Mitri is 20, and for one weekend he was the best of everybody his age in the division. Nobody should build a career on it and everybody quietly does.
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Steady
Match5 Sep 2026
2‑6 to Siracusa, 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.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Salvatore Di Mitri did not need any: 7.62, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Trapani close the window on a squad of their own making
12 in and 0 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
The offer went to Pro Vercelli this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Match5 Sep 2026
8 goals in one match, Salvatore Di Mitri on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Trapani and Siracusa.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Quilmes have kept their man, and Trapani go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Trapani ran out of time with Venezia. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.40, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
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Triumph
Squad31 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Up for the corner, and Enrico Celeghin delivers — 7.72
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Enrico Celeghin scored, was marked 7.72, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Trapani
Cesare Galeotti and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Trapani training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gianni Manfrin 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.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Colón have kept their man, and Trapani go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match29 Aug 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Riccardo Forte. 2‑1 against Audace Cerignola, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
A performance of 8.39 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad31 Aug 2026
8 new faces, and Trapani 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.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
A loan move for Ulises Vera is in the works
Trapani have made the call to Quilmes. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
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Steady
Squad24 Aug 2026
Cesare Galeotti 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Gianni Manfrin 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Defensores have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
Trapani say no to the training-ground money
The plan went upstairs and came back down. Nothing about that will make a headline anywhere else, and everybody who works at the training ground will remember it for years.
Looking ahead24 Aug 2026
Home comforts ahead for Trapani
Audace Cerignola, position 16, come to town on Saturday. Nobody will call it a big game and nobody at the club will be treating it as anything else.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Trapani
Riccardo Forte and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Trapani
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Pasqualino Ortisi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Steady
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 Trapani this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Gianni Manfrin 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Luca Milani joins the Trapani first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Luca Milani is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Domenico Ceccarelli is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Nicolò Iannuzzi 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Alessandro Marchetti 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Amedeo Benedetti commits to Trapani for another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Riccardo Forte 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
Words at Trapani training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Amedeo Benedetti 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.