From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad19 Oct 2026
64 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Match17 Oct 2026
Ascoli made Vis Pesaro work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.01, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings19 Oct 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 ratings19 Oct 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.
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.
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Steady
Squad12 Oct 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.
Match10 Oct 2026
4 matches without a win for Vis Pesaro
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Vis Pesaro are no longer polite ones.
Squad12 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.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Marked 8.90 — 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 ratings12 Oct 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.
Match10 Oct 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.
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Crisis
Player ratings5 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.
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.
Match3 Oct 2026
Pineto left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
440% 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
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Riccardo Zoia, and the manager let it.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
A performance of 8.04 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
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Steady
Match23 Sep 2026
The small margins put Vis Pesaro out
Out, 0‑1 to Carrarese, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 31. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Defensive actions: 24, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jonathan Leko, and the manager let it.
Squad28 Sep 2026
The medical room confirms 21 days on the sidelines for Stefano Bartoli, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Shots: 11. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Defensive actions: 13, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Match26 Sep 2026
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Campobasso defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
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Upbeat
Squad21 Sep 2026
The medical room confirms 95 days on the sidelines for Francesco Nicastro, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
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 Vis Pesaro this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match19 Sep 2026
Three points for Vis Pesaro, 2‑1 the final word against Carpi in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
A performance of 8.48 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Franco Vezzoni
“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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 10. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Steady
Squad14 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Sulayman Jallow’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Vis Pesaro.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
A performance of 8.21 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad14 Sep 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Defensive actions: 16, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Desley Ubbink asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Squad14 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 Vis Pesaro would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Defensive actions: 10. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
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Uneasy
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 Vis Pesaro this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
378% 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.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.63, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Marked 8.12 — 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mirco Ceccacci, and the manager let it.
Match5 Sep 2026
2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
One lapse, one goal, and ninety minutes of honest work counting for nothing. That is the job at Vis Pesaro, and it is a cruel one.
Squad7 Sep 2026
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Vis Pesaro have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Every debut is a small story about the future: Edoardo Mariani, 18 years old, off the academy pitches and into the first team. The parents in the stand will keep the programme.
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Crisis
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 37. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match29 Aug 2026
1‑2 to Pontedera, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Riccardo Zoia, and the manager let it.
Player ratings31 Aug 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
52 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
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Steady
Squad24 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
He is 20, and nobody at Vis Pesaro signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Market24 Aug 2026
Matteo Dalla Costa is 17, and Vis Pesaro have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
Market24 Aug 2026
Domenico Rocca is 17, and Vis Pesaro have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
Market24 Aug 2026
He is 16, and nobody at Vis Pesaro signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Niccolò Trapani commits to Vis Pesaro for another 4 years.
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Steady
Squad17 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Alessio Pozzi has company in his position
The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Alessio Pozzi keeps the shirt for now, at Vis Pesaro's convenience rather than his own.
Market17 Aug 2026
A season-long look at somebody else’s player: Francesco Bonardi arrives from Lumezzane with something to prove and a return ticket in the drawer. Good loans make everybody richer; this one starts Saturday.
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Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
The offer from Guidonia Montecelio for Francesco Nicastro was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
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.
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Steady
Market3 Aug 2026
The offer from Ospitaletto for Romeo Giovannini was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Pepín Machín and Vis Pesaro agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
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
49 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Luca Paganini knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Luca Paganini trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Vis Pesaro, another week without a signature from Mirco Ceccacci.