It's award season at Calcio Culture, and we're naming our Serie A Team of the Season for 2025/26 — the full XI, the bench, the coach, and every individual award worth arguing about. Inter wrapped the Scudetto under Cristian Chivu, the official league awards are in, and Vos, Motts and Logs don't agree on all of them.

Mile Svilar takes our Goalkeeper of the Year after a huge season for Roma. Our back line runs Kalulu, Akanji, Como's Jacobo Ramón and Defender of the Year Marco Palestra. Midfield is Nico Paz, Scott McTominay and Luka Modrić, with capocannoniere Lautaro Martinez and Donyell Malen up top. Plus the bench and the Manager of the Year debate that lands on Chivu. Where do we match the official Serie A XI, and where did we go off-script? That's the episode.

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