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Crisis
Squad26 Oct 2026
Luca Paganini 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
The goals have deserted Vis Pesaro
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Vis Pesaro can tell you which week it ends in.
Match24 Oct 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Vis Pesaro are still strangers to each other
11 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Giuseppe Dalla Costa to a room that had heard them before.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Nicolò Lari
“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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The plan did not have a place for Denis Tonucci
Nobody at Vis Pesaro is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Andrea Beghetto has written the date down.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A new face in his position, and Michele Rigione suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Vis Pesaro have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
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Steady
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. 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
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Vis Pesaro this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Giuseppe Dalla Costa after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Wiktor Chudy 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
Point won or two lost for Vis Pesaro?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Ascoli? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Nicolò Lari 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 Nicolò Lari is on it.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“I want to play”: Wiktor Chudy speaks
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“Nobody outside is coming to save us.” It was short, it was not comfortable, and by all accounts the Vis Pesaro squad were quieter afterwards than they had been all season.
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Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
Luca Paganini and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match10 Oct 2026
0‑1 to Sambenedettese, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Denis Tonucci, and the manager let it.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Giuseppe Dalla Costa left the room before anybody could ask which.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
The leaders are next for Vis Pesaro
Ascoli top the table and they are coming into view. Nothing to lose, which is what every manager says before losing.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Giacomo Maucci, 19, is the weekend’s best young player
Measured against every other kid in the division and first among them. The senior award is where Vis Pesaro would like this to lead.
The dugout12 Oct 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.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Luca Paganini’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Vis Pesaro needing him to play as if none of it matters.
Market12 Oct 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Alessio Pozzi signs something — a contract at Vis Pesaro or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Upbeat
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Federico Tavernaro, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.98
A mark of 7.98 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Francesco Nicastro commits to Vis Pesaro for another 1 years.
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 Vis Pesaro this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Manuel Pisano is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 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.
The terraces5 Oct 2026
He is 21 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
Pineto made Vis Pesaro work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Andrea Beghetto, and the manager let it.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
107% of the income goes out in wages at Vis Pesaro
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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
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Steady
Match23 Sep 2026
A 2‑1 win over Carrarese, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
No sign of nerves from Nicolò Lari at 21 — 7.85
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Nicolò Lari did not need any: 7.85, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Luca Paganini did the work nobody counts — 7.32
17 combined actions and 7.32. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Luca Paganini 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 terraces28 Sep 2026
The crowd has taken to Nicolò Lari
At 21 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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.07, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad28 Sep 2026
11 new faces, and Vis Pesaro 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 dugout28 Sep 2026
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
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Steady
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Luca Paganini, 33, rolls back the years — 8.12
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.12 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Luca Paganini 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Luca Paganini. 1‑0 against Carpi, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. 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.
The dugout21 Sep 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.” Giuseppe Dalla Costa kept it short after the 1‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“I want to play”: Wiktor Chudy speaks
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
Squad21 Sep 2026
At 29 he is in the side on merit and somebody else is watching. Places at Vis Pesaro are won quietly and lost loudly, and this one was won.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Defensive actions: 10, 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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Crisis
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Almirante Brown have kept their man, and Vis Pesaro go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market14 Sep 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Armando Sorrentino 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
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Pietro Antonucci is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Match12 Sep 2026
Ravenna left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout14 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.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Giuseppe Dalla Costa after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Looking ahead14 Sep 2026
Carpi next, and one man in the Vis Pesaro dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
The dugout14 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 ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 9. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
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Uneasy
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Vis Pesaro 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
Vis Pesaro asked and Catania said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad7 Sep 2026
200 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Wiktor Chudy and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
A mark of 7.64, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Match5 Sep 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Giuseppe Dalla Costa was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the Vis Pesaro dressing room was either.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 11. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
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Uneasy
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Juventus is saying, and nobody at Vis Pesaro is enjoying the guessing.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Luca Paganini 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.
Transfer targets31 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Vis Pesaro
11 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Almirante Brown 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. 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.
The dugout31 Aug 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.” Giuseppe Dalla Costa chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
Match29 Aug 2026
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Pontedera will be the happier side with the point.
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Steady
Squad24 Aug 2026
Luca Paganini 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 targets24 Aug 2026
Vis Pesaro asked and Temperley said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Marcello Baldini and Vis Pesaro agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
Vis Pesaro 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
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Francesco Nicastro’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Vis Pesaro needing him to play as if none of it matters.
The dugout24 Aug 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.
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Steady
Squad17 Aug 2026
Luca Paganini and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Vis Pesaro asked and Defensores said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Temperley 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.
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Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Luca Paganini commits to Vis Pesaro for another 2 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Luca Paganini 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Catania have kept their man, and Vis Pesaro go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Luca Paganini
“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.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Pietro Dalla Valle 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
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Giovanni Longo 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. Giacomo Rossi 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. Federico Zangari 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 targets10 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.
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Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Michele Rigione and Vis Pesaro agree another 2 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 Vis Pesaro this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market3 Aug 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Alessio Pozzi’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Vis Pesaro
12 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to Bologna: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.