The manager of the Spanish side, Juventus’s opponents in Europe, has fielded 55 different line-ups in his last 55 matches. He relies on young players and on the identity of a club that he has managed to lift from the lower reaches of La Liga to European competition.

The first bankruptcy was in 2014, the second in 2019. Now Mens Sana is back in a national league, Serie B, after seven years. “We sought a different model, aimed at involving small investors who wanted to feel part of a revival project. So the team has truly become a treasure of the city.”

The manager at the helm of the Turkish side (Roma’s opponents) seems to have stepped straight out of a coming-of-age novel. A life spanning from the Bosphorus to the touchline, marked by illustrious friendships, missed league titles and a destiny that has always hung in the balance

During the 380 Serie A matches, statistics and ratings will appear directly on the screen, in two separate sections. This turns an overall assessment into a provisional rating. A player still has the whole second half ahead of him, but his performance is already being reduced to a number

In Siena, there is no word to describe the contrada that has won the most Palios, but there is one to refer to the one that has gone the longest without a win. It is the ‘nonna’ – the one wearing the ‘cuffia’, a headdress once worn, as the name suggests, by grandmothers. It is a symbol that has become a destiny