Misc from the beautiful world of San Marino as we're close to complete a very entertaining 2025/2026 season.
San Marino still have a World Cup to play so we can't really think about EURO 2028 now, though I have to say our qualifying group will be ridiculously easy this time:
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Georgia, Armenia, Bulgaria and
Latvia: I mean, seriously!?
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Alessandro Paolone was subject of controversial media speculation recently:
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'Out in the cold'! Paolone's international career is apparently in doubt as the striker shockingly missed a useless, mid-week friendly against Armenia... will he make the World Cup squad??? Eh we'll see (stupid tabloids).
Luckily Paolone didn't seem to be really affected by media speculation in the following month:
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Udinese decided it was a good idea to use a ultra-high defensive line against us, and Paolone responded with five goals in the first half en route to a typical 6-0 away win. They never learn...
Important news for San Marino U21 as the young Titani have been invited to join the
Toulon Youth Festival (French Youth Invitational in FM) in June. I have to say the best U21 players in the country will be busy preparing the World Cup at that time, nonetheless this is a nice event for SM.
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And finally, there are excellent news from the youth intake this year: there are a very promising keeper with the potential of becoming much better than Carlo Vignoli and a gifted, versatile attacker who could develop into a leading Serie A player. But this kid here, he's really something else:
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Alessandro Montemitoli has to be the most impressive prospect ever produced in the country. Actually he could very well be the most impressive prospect ever produced in
any country. The 16 year-old midfielder already looks good for Serie A standard, scariest thing is he's going to improve A LOT in the years (1 star CA, 4.5 stars PA) with his PA comparing favourably to world class midfielder Antonio Manas. I'm afraid I won't play long enough to see Montemitoli fulfilling his potential, he'd become a beast for sure!