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Palermo
Unione Sportiva Città di Palermo is an Italian football club from Palermo, Sicily which currently plays in Serie A, the top level of Italian football. Formed in 1900 as Anglo Panormitan Athletic and Football Club, the club existed under various names before finally assuming the current denomination in 1987. Following its return to Serie A in 2004, the club became one of the most prominent in Italy. It has obtained a UEFA Cup place in each of the past three seasons, narrowly missing UEFA Champions League qualification in 2007.
The official team colours are pink and black, giving rise to the nickname rosanero; another less common nickname is aquile, referring to the eagle present in both the official club logo and the coat of arms of the city of Palermo.
US Città di Palermo plays its home games at Stadio Renzo Barbera, formerly known as La Favorita; as of 2007 the stadium has a capacity of 37,000 people.[1] It was originally built in 1932, but was renovated in the late 1980s and served as a venue for the 1990 FIFA World Cup
There is some debate about the exact founding date of the club: some date the club foundation to as early as 1898 due to the existence of papers addressed to Joseph Whitaker, English consul in Palermo and originally believed to be first club president, about a Palermitan football team founded in that year.[2] However, the most common and officially stated foundation date is November 1, 1900,[3] as the Anglo Panormitan Athletic and Football Club. The club is stated to be founded by Ignazio Majo Pagano, a young Palermitan colleague of Whitaker who had discovered football while at college in London, England where the sport was already popular. The staff foundations of the Palermo football organisation was composed of 3 Englishmen and 9 natives of Palermo,[4] with Whitaker as honorary chairman, Edward De Garston as first president and red and blue as original team colours. The first known football match, played by the team on December 30, 1900, ended in a 5-0 defeat to an unidentified amateur English team. first official match, played on April 18, 1901 against Messina Football Club ended in a 3-2 win to the Palermitan side.[5]
In 1907, the club changed its name to Palermo Foot-Ball Club, and the team colours were changed to the current pink and black.[6] From 1908 until the final one in 1914, Palermo was featured in the Lipton Challenge Cup, organised by English billionaire Sir Thomas Lipton. The competition saw them face off against Naples; Palermo won the competition three times, including a 6-0 victory in 1912.[7]
After the football halting due to World War I, the club was refounded on 1919 as Unione Sportiva Palermo,[8] by a committee of young university students and sportsmen. During the early 1920s the club mainly competed in the Campionato Lega Sud (a football league of Southern Italy) reaching the semi-finals in 1924, before being knocked out when facing Audace Taranto, Alba Roma and Internaples. The club was cancelled in 1927 due to financial reasons, but was reformed one year later following a merger with Vigor Palermo under the denomination Palermo FootBall Club. Originally admitted to Prima Divisione (First Division), the equivalent of today's Serie C1,[9][10] the was promoted into Serie B in 1930 and finally reached Serie A in 1932. From its debut season in Italy's top division, Palermo relocated to a new home, the Stadio Littorio (Lictorian Stadium) in the Favorita neighbourhood, today known as Stadio Renzo Barbera. The club played Serie A until 1936, when they were relegated to Serie B and first challenged Catania in the Sicilian derby.[11]
In 1936 Palermo was also forced by the fascist regime to change its colours to yellow and red, after the official ones of the local municipality.[12] Meanwhile, economical troubles arose, and in 1940 they were expelled by the Italian Football Federation because of financial problems.[12]
After the World War II, the team returned to Serie A by capturing the Serie B championship of 1947–48; the refreshed Palermo squad featured players such as Czechoslovakian legend Čestmír Vycpálek who was signed from Juventus alongside Conti, Di Bella and Pavesi.[12] Palermo played Serie A until they were relegated in 1954.[12][13] Massive changes in the board, as well as the managing post and the playing squad, proved to be successful and the club returned to Serie A in 1956. Palermo then became a sort of "yo-yo" club, bouncing up and down between the top two Italian leagues. Several stars appeared with Palermo during this period, such as Argentine striker Santiago Vernazza (51 goals in 115 games with the rosanero),[14] goalkeepers Roberto Anzolin and Carlo Mattrel, Giuseppe Furino and Franco Causio. Palermo marked its best campaign in the 1961–62 season, finishing 8th in Serie A. In 1963 they however were relegated in Serie B, and played there for five seasons.
In 1970, Renzo Barbera took over the club, becoming the new chairman. After 1973, Palermo FBC played exclusively in Serie B for a long time. Despite this, in this period Palermo reached two Italian Cup finals, both narrowly lost: in 1974 to Bologna on penalty shoot-outs, and in 1979 to Juventus after extra time. Barbera left the club in 1980 and Palermo were relegated to Serie C1 four years later. The 1985–86 season which ended in the summer was however the last for Palermo FBC, as the club, after a struggling saving from relegation, was expelled by the federation because of financial problems. In the summer of 1987, after a year without professional football in Palermo, the club was refounded, bearing the current name, and began to play down from Serie C2, which was promptly won.
In the 1990s Palermo played extensively between Serie B and Serie C1, with a few highs, such as its 1995–1996 Serie B and Coppa Italia campaign, the latter ended in the quarter-finals, and a number of lows such as the 1998 relegation to Serie C2 after defeat in the play-offs to Battipagliese, then revoked by the federation to fill a league vacancy.[15]
AS Roma chairman Franco Sensi bought the team in 2000 and Palermo were promoted to Serie B one year later. In the summer of 2002 Maurizio Zamparini acquired the club with the intention to bring it back to Serie A.[16] This happened after a hard but successful 2003–04 campaign which saw Palermo being crowned as Serie B champions and promoted to Serie A after 31 years under head coach Francesco Guidolin.
The 2004–05 season, the first back in Serie A for the Palermo club since 1973, ended with an excellent sixth place, allowing it to qualify for the 2005–06 UEFA Cup for the first time in its history. Luca Toni broke the Palermo Serie A scoring record by notching up 20 league goals. Guidolin left in 2005, and was replaced by Luigi Del Neri, who did not manage to repeat his predecessor's successes and was later replaced by Giuseppe Papadopulo. Despite an unimpressive eighth place in the Serie A table, Palermo reached the round of 16 in the UEFA Cup as well as the Coppa Italia semifinals. Guidolin's return was followed by Palermo being admitted to play UEFA Cup again due to the 2006 Serie A scandal and Palermo players Andrea Barzagli, Cristian Zaccardo and Fabio Grosso being crowned 2006 FIFA World Cup winners. A number of impressive signings were made to establish an ambitious team,[17] and a good beginning in the 2006–07 campaign appeared initially to confirm this. However, a winless 11 games streak caused Palermo to fall down from third to seventh place. The club ended the season with a fifth place and will play again UEFA Cup in the next season, with Stefano Colantuono at Guidolin's place.
Palermo plays its home matches at Stadio Renzo Barbera, located in the Favorita neighbourhood. The stadium was opened in 1932, during the fascist regime, with the name Stadio Littorio (Lictorial Stadium). The inaugural match was played on January 24, 1932, against Atalanta; Palermo won it 5-1. In 1936, it was renamed Stadio Michele Marrone, after a fascist hero who died in the Spanish civil war.[35]
Initially a racetrack was present, and there were no curved sections, but only terraces and a stand. In 1948, following the end of World War II and the fall of the Fascist regime, the stadium assumed the denomination of Stadio La Favorita, after the neighbourhood where it was located, and was also heavily restructured, without racetrack and with two curved sections, thus increasing its capacity to 30,000.[35] In 1984 it was again enlarged, giving a capacity of circa 50,000. This higher capacity was however completely covered in only twice, respectively in a Serie C1 league match against Messina and a friendly match against Juventus.[35] On the occasion of the 1990 FIFA World Cup, the stadium was renovated with the addition of seats, but the capacity, which was reached on only two occasions before 1990, was reduced to 37,619. During the 1989 renovation works, five employees died following the collapse of a section of the stadium.[35] In 2002 the stadium was renamed in honour of Renzo Barbera, legendary Palermo chairman in the 1970s.[35]
Plans to move the club to a new state-of-the-art stadium to be built were recently announced by current Palermo chairman and owner Maurizio Zamparini.[36]
[edit] Honours
Coppa Italia
Runners-up (2): 1973–74, 1978–79
Serie B
Champions (3): 1931–32, 1947–48, 1967–68, 2003–04
Runners-up (1): 1958–59
Serie C
Champions (1): 1941–42
Serie C1
Champions (3): 1984–85, 1992–93, 2000–01
Runners-up (2): 1990–91, 1998–99
Serie C2
Champions (1): 1987–88
Coppa Italia Serie C
Winners (1): 1990–91
Coppa Federale Siciliana
Winners (1): 1920
Whitaker Challenge Cup
Winners (1): 1908
Lipton Challenge Cup
Winners (3): 1910, 1912, 1913
Runners-up (3): 1909, 1911, 1914
Most league goals – 62, Carlo Radice (1929-1932)
Most Serie A league goals – 40, Domenico Di Maso (1949-1954)
Most goals in a season – 30, Luca Toni (2003-2004)
Most league appearances – 319, Roberto Biffi (1988-1999)
Most Serie A league appearances – 151, Gino Giaroli (1949-1954)
Current player with most league appearances – 156, Franco Brienza (updated April 25, 2007)
Biggest win and biggest home win – 8-0 (v. Pro Patria, November 5, 1950)
Biggest away win – 7-1 (v. Lecce, October 23, 1994)
Biggest defeat and biggest away defeat – 0-9 (v. AC Milan, February 18, 1951)
Biggest home defeat – 0-4 (two times), 1-5 (two times), 2-6 (most recent: 1-5 v. Udinese, March 13, 2005)
ROMA
Associazione Sportiva Roma (ISE: IT0001008876) is a major professional football club both in Italy’s Serie A and in European football. The team has spent its entire history (but one season in 1951-52) in the top flight of Italian football: the club will play in the 2007-08 campaign its 56th straight season in Serie A.
Roma's home strip comprises of maroon red shirts with golden yellow borders, white shorts and black socks (or maroon red shorts and socks in highly important games), thus earning them their nickname i Giallorossi (the Yellow-Reds). The emblem of the team portrays the female wolf with the two infant brothers Romulus and Remus, illustrating the well-known myth of the creation of Rome, superimposed on a bipartite golden yellow over maroon red shield. The official colours also reflect the gold and maroon bipartite of the flag of the Eternal City, with the former symbolizing God in Christianity, and the latter imperial dignity.
At the end of the 2006-07 footballing season, A.S. Roma are the Coppa Italia holders, runners-up of the Serie A Championship and quarter-finalists of the UEFA Champions League.
The club plays at the 82,656 seater Stadio Olimpico, shared with S.S. Lazio. The two teams face off against each other at least twice a season in the Derby della Capitale (Derby of the Capital) which is notorious for being one of the most fiery and emotional rivalries in world football. Two extreme incidents in particular have left their mark on the history of this heated fixture. In 1979, Lazio fan Vincenzo Paparelli was hit in the eye by a flare fired by a Roma fan from the opposite end of the stadium, subsequently becoming the first fatality in Italian football history. In 2003 an unprecedented event occurred when the Roma Ultras forced the game to be suspended after spreading false rumours among the crowd that a child had been killed by the police prior to the beginning of the game.
AS Roma's principal ultras group until the middle of the 1990s was the left-leaning CUCS (Commando Ultrà Curva Sud). However the group was slowly usurped by rival factions and ultimately broke up. The Curva Sud has been controlled since then by various groups which lean markedly to the right (AS Roma Ultras, Boys, Giovinezza, etc.) even if the oldest group, Fedayn, is now a-political. It is worth bearing in mind that in both team's cases the political leanings of the actual groups, though more likely to generate media attention, is usually not their raison d'être and more just a part of their overall identity.
The club anthem, Roma (non si discute,si ama) -popularly but incorrectly known as Roma Roma- by Antonello Venditti, is played and sung before each match, and "Grazie Roma", by the same singer, is played at the end of home games when the team wins. A recent addition to the supporters repertoire was the riff to the White Stripes song, 'Seven Nation Army' which was later used by supporters of the Italian national team in the 2006 FIFA World Cup. It started when Totti was heard on camera during a warmup for one Roma's league games improvising his own words to the song and the Roma supporters began singing Totti's version at games.
Scudetto (Serie A title)
Winners (3): 1941-42, 1982-83, 2000-01
Runners-up (10): 1930-31, 1935-36, 1954-55, 1980-81, 1983-84, 1985-86, 2001-02, 2003-04, 2005-06, 2006-07
Coppa Italia
A mural of Francesco Totti painted after the 2001 Serie A victoryWinners (8): 1963-64, 1968-69, 1979-80, 1980-81, 1983-84, 1985-86, 1990-91, 2006-07
Runners-up (6): 1936-37, 1940-41, 1992-93, 2002-03, 2004-05, 2005-06
Supercoppa Italiana
Winners (2): 2001, 2007
Runners-up (2): 1991, 2006
UEFA Champions League (European Cup)
Runners-up (1): 1983-84
Inter-Cities Fairs Cup
Winners (1): 1960-61
UEFA Cup
Runners-up (1): 1990-91
Anglo-Italian Cup
Winners (1): 1971/72
Associazione Sportiva Roma (ISE: IT0001008876) is a major professional football club both in Italy’s Serie A and in European football. The team has spent its entire history (but one season in 1951-52) in the top flight of Italian football: the club will play in the 2007-08 campaign its 56th straight season in Serie A.
Roma's home strip comprises of maroon red shirts with golden yellow borders, white shorts and black socks (or maroon red shorts and socks in highly important games), thus earning them their nickname i Giallorossi (the Yellow-Reds). The emblem of the team portrays the female wolf with the two infant brothers Romulus and Remus, illustrating the well-known myth of the creation of Rome, superimposed on a bipartite golden yellow over maroon red shield. The official colours also reflect the gold and maroon bipartite of the flag of the Eternal City, with the former symbolizing God in Christianity, and the latter imperial dignity.
At the end of the 2006-07 footballing season, A.S. Roma are the Coppa Italia holders, runners-up of the Serie A Championship and quarter-finalists of the UEFA Champions League.
Youth Team Awards:
Campionato Nazionale Primavera
Winner (6): 1972-73, 1973-74, 1977-78, 1983-84, 1989-90, 2004-05
Coppa Italia Primavera
Winner (3): 1973-74, 1974-75, 1993-94
Torneo di Viareggio
Winner (3): 1981, 1983, 1991
Runners-up (7): 1950, 1957, 1978, 1985, 1989, 1992, 2007
Palermo
Unione Sportiva Città di Palermo is an Italian football club from Palermo, Sicily which currently plays in Serie A, the top level of Italian football. Formed in 1900 as Anglo Panormitan Athletic and Football Club, the club existed under various names before finally assuming the current denomination in 1987. Following its return to Serie A in 2004, the club became one of the most prominent in Italy. It has obtained a UEFA Cup place in each of the past three seasons, narrowly missing UEFA Champions League qualification in 2007.
The official team colours are pink and black, giving rise to the nickname rosanero; another less common nickname is aquile, referring to the eagle present in both the official club logo and the coat of arms of the city of Palermo.
US Città di Palermo plays its home games at Stadio Renzo Barbera, formerly known as La Favorita; as of 2007 the stadium has a capacity of 37,000 people.[1] It was originally built in 1932, but was renovated in the late 1980s and served as a venue for the 1990 FIFA World Cup
There is some debate about the exact founding date of the club: some date the club foundation to as early as 1898 due to the existence of papers addressed to Joseph Whitaker, English consul in Palermo and originally believed to be first club president, about a Palermitan football team founded in that year.[2] However, the most common and officially stated foundation date is November 1, 1900,[3] as the Anglo Panormitan Athletic and Football Club. The club is stated to be founded by Ignazio Majo Pagano, a young Palermitan colleague of Whitaker who had discovered football while at college in London, England where the sport was already popular. The staff foundations of the Palermo football organisation was composed of 3 Englishmen and 9 natives of Palermo,[4] with Whitaker as honorary chairman, Edward De Garston as first president and red and blue as original team colours. The first known football match, played by the team on December 30, 1900, ended in a 5-0 defeat to an unidentified amateur English team. first official match, played on April 18, 1901 against Messina Football Club ended in a 3-2 win to the Palermitan side.[5]
In 1907, the club changed its name to Palermo Foot-Ball Club, and the team colours were changed to the current pink and black.[6] From 1908 until the final one in 1914, Palermo was featured in the Lipton Challenge Cup, organised by English billionaire Sir Thomas Lipton. The competition saw them face off against Naples; Palermo won the competition three times, including a 6-0 victory in 1912.[7]
After the football halting due to World War I, the club was refounded on 1919 as Unione Sportiva Palermo,[8] by a committee of young university students and sportsmen. During the early 1920s the club mainly competed in the Campionato Lega Sud (a football league of Southern Italy) reaching the semi-finals in 1924, before being knocked out when facing Audace Taranto, Alba Roma and Internaples. The club was cancelled in 1927 due to financial reasons, but was reformed one year later following a merger with Vigor Palermo under the denomination Palermo FootBall Club. Originally admitted to Prima Divisione (First Division), the equivalent of today's Serie C1,[9][10] the was promoted into Serie B in 1930 and finally reached Serie A in 1932. From its debut season in Italy's top division, Palermo relocated to a new home, the Stadio Littorio (Lictorian Stadium) in the Favorita neighbourhood, today known as Stadio Renzo Barbera. The club played Serie A until 1936, when they were relegated to Serie B and first challenged Catania in the Sicilian derby.[11]
In 1936 Palermo was also forced by the fascist regime to change its colours to yellow and red, after the official ones of the local municipality.[12] Meanwhile, economical troubles arose, and in 1940 they were expelled by the Italian Football Federation because of financial problems.[12]
After the World War II, the team returned to Serie A by capturing the Serie B championship of 1947–48; the refreshed Palermo squad featured players such as Czechoslovakian legend Čestmír Vycpálek who was signed from Juventus alongside Conti, Di Bella and Pavesi.[12] Palermo played Serie A until they were relegated in 1954.[12][13] Massive changes in the board, as well as the managing post and the playing squad, proved to be successful and the club returned to Serie A in 1956. Palermo then became a sort of "yo-yo" club, bouncing up and down between the top two Italian leagues. Several stars appeared with Palermo during this period, such as Argentine striker Santiago Vernazza (51 goals in 115 games with the rosanero),[14] goalkeepers Roberto Anzolin and Carlo Mattrel, Giuseppe Furino and Franco Causio. Palermo marked its best campaign in the 1961–62 season, finishing 8th in Serie A. In 1963 they however were relegated in Serie B, and played there for five seasons.
In 1970, Renzo Barbera took over the club, becoming the new chairman. After 1973, Palermo FBC played exclusively in Serie B for a long time. Despite this, in this period Palermo reached two Italian Cup finals, both narrowly lost: in 1974 to Bologna on penalty shoot-outs, and in 1979 to Juventus after extra time. Barbera left the club in 1980 and Palermo were relegated to Serie C1 four years later. The 1985–86 season which ended in the summer was however the last for Palermo FBC, as the club, after a struggling saving from relegation, was expelled by the federation because of financial problems. In the summer of 1987, after a year without professional football in Palermo, the club was refounded, bearing the current name, and began to play down from Serie C2, which was promptly won.
In the 1990s Palermo played extensively between Serie B and Serie C1, with a few highs, such as its 1995–1996 Serie B and Coppa Italia campaign, the latter ended in the quarter-finals, and a number of lows such as the 1998 relegation to Serie C2 after defeat in the play-offs to Battipagliese, then revoked by the federation to fill a league vacancy.[15]
AS Roma chairman Franco Sensi bought the team in 2000 and Palermo were promoted to Serie B one year later. In the summer of 2002 Maurizio Zamparini acquired the club with the intention to bring it back to Serie A.[16] This happened after a hard but successful 2003–04 campaign which saw Palermo being crowned as Serie B champions and promoted to Serie A after 31 years under head coach Francesco Guidolin.
The 2004–05 season, the first back in Serie A for the Palermo club since 1973, ended with an excellent sixth place, allowing it to qualify for the 2005–06 UEFA Cup for the first time in its history. Luca Toni broke the Palermo Serie A scoring record by notching up 20 league goals. Guidolin left in 2005, and was replaced by Luigi Del Neri, who did not manage to repeat his predecessor's successes and was later replaced by Giuseppe Papadopulo. Despite an unimpressive eighth place in the Serie A table, Palermo reached the round of 16 in the UEFA Cup as well as the Coppa Italia semifinals. Guidolin's return was followed by Palermo being admitted to play UEFA Cup again due to the 2006 Serie A scandal and Palermo players Andrea Barzagli, Cristian Zaccardo and Fabio Grosso being crowned 2006 FIFA World Cup winners. A number of impressive signings were made to establish an ambitious team,[17] and a good beginning in the 2006–07 campaign appeared initially to confirm this. However, a winless 11 games streak caused Palermo to fall down from third to seventh place. The club ended the season with a fifth place and will play again UEFA Cup in the next season, with Stefano Colantuono at Guidolin's place.
Palermo plays its home matches at Stadio Renzo Barbera, located in the Favorita neighbourhood. The stadium was opened in 1932, during the fascist regime, with the name Stadio Littorio (Lictorial Stadium). The inaugural match was played on January 24, 1932, against Atalanta; Palermo won it 5-1. In 1936, it was renamed Stadio Michele Marrone, after a fascist hero who died in the Spanish civil war.[35]
Initially a racetrack was present, and there were no curved sections, but only terraces and a stand. In 1948, following the end of World War II and the fall of the Fascist regime, the stadium assumed the denomination of Stadio La Favorita, after the neighbourhood where it was located, and was also heavily restructured, without racetrack and with two curved sections, thus increasing its capacity to 30,000.[35] In 1984 it was again enlarged, giving a capacity of circa 50,000. This higher capacity was however completely covered in only twice, respectively in a Serie C1 league match against Messina and a friendly match against Juventus.[35] On the occasion of the 1990 FIFA World Cup, the stadium was renovated with the addition of seats, but the capacity, which was reached on only two occasions before 1990, was reduced to 37,619. During the 1989 renovation works, five employees died following the collapse of a section of the stadium.[35] In 2002 the stadium was renamed in honour of Renzo Barbera, legendary Palermo chairman in the 1970s.[35]
Plans to move the club to a new state-of-the-art stadium to be built were recently announced by current Palermo chairman and owner Maurizio Zamparini.[36]
[edit] Honours
Coppa Italia
Runners-up (2): 1973–74, 1978–79
Serie B
Champions (3): 1931–32, 1947–48, 1967–68, 2003–04
Runners-up (1): 1958–59
Serie C
Champions (1): 1941–42
Serie C1
Champions (3): 1984–85, 1992–93, 2000–01
Runners-up (2): 1990–91, 1998–99
Serie C2
Champions (1): 1987–88
Coppa Italia Serie C
Winners (1): 1990–91
Coppa Federale Siciliana
Winners (1): 1920
Whitaker Challenge Cup
Winners (1): 1908
Lipton Challenge Cup
Winners (3): 1910, 1912, 1913
Runners-up (3): 1909, 1911, 1914
Most league goals – 62, Carlo Radice (1929-1932)
Most Serie A league goals – 40, Domenico Di Maso (1949-1954)
Most goals in a season – 30, Luca Toni (2003-2004)
Most league appearances – 319, Roberto Biffi (1988-1999)
Most Serie A league appearances – 151, Gino Giaroli (1949-1954)
Current player with most league appearances – 156, Franco Brienza (updated April 25, 2007)
Biggest win and biggest home win – 8-0 (v. Pro Patria, November 5, 1950)
Biggest away win – 7-1 (v. Lecce, October 23, 1994)
Biggest defeat and biggest away defeat – 0-9 (v. AC Milan, February 18, 1951)
Biggest home defeat – 0-4 (two times), 1-5 (two times), 2-6 (most recent: 1-5 v. Udinese, March 13, 2005)
ROMA
Associazione Sportiva Roma (ISE: IT0001008876) is a major professional football club both in Italy’s Serie A and in European football. The team has spent its entire history (but one season in 1951-52) in the top flight of Italian football: the club will play in the 2007-08 campaign its 56th straight season in Serie A.
Roma's home strip comprises of maroon red shirts with golden yellow borders, white shorts and black socks (or maroon red shorts and socks in highly important games), thus earning them their nickname i Giallorossi (the Yellow-Reds). The emblem of the team portrays the female wolf with the two infant brothers Romulus and Remus, illustrating the well-known myth of the creation of Rome, superimposed on a bipartite golden yellow over maroon red shield. The official colours also reflect the gold and maroon bipartite of the flag of the Eternal City, with the former symbolizing God in Christianity, and the latter imperial dignity.
At the end of the 2006-07 footballing season, A.S. Roma are the Coppa Italia holders, runners-up of the Serie A Championship and quarter-finalists of the UEFA Champions League.
The club plays at the 82,656 seater Stadio Olimpico, shared with S.S. Lazio. The two teams face off against each other at least twice a season in the Derby della Capitale (Derby of the Capital) which is notorious for being one of the most fiery and emotional rivalries in world football. Two extreme incidents in particular have left their mark on the history of this heated fixture. In 1979, Lazio fan Vincenzo Paparelli was hit in the eye by a flare fired by a Roma fan from the opposite end of the stadium, subsequently becoming the first fatality in Italian football history. In 2003 an unprecedented event occurred when the Roma Ultras forced the game to be suspended after spreading false rumours among the crowd that a child had been killed by the police prior to the beginning of the game.
AS Roma's principal ultras group until the middle of the 1990s was the left-leaning CUCS (Commando Ultrà Curva Sud). However the group was slowly usurped by rival factions and ultimately broke up. The Curva Sud has been controlled since then by various groups which lean markedly to the right (AS Roma Ultras, Boys, Giovinezza, etc.) even if the oldest group, Fedayn, is now a-political. It is worth bearing in mind that in both team's cases the political leanings of the actual groups, though more likely to generate media attention, is usually not their raison d'être and more just a part of their overall identity.
The club anthem, Roma (non si discute,si ama) -popularly but incorrectly known as Roma Roma- by Antonello Venditti, is played and sung before each match, and "Grazie Roma", by the same singer, is played at the end of home games when the team wins. A recent addition to the supporters repertoire was the riff to the White Stripes song, 'Seven Nation Army' which was later used by supporters of the Italian national team in the 2006 FIFA World Cup. It started when Totti was heard on camera during a warmup for one Roma's league games improvising his own words to the song and the Roma supporters began singing Totti's version at games.
Scudetto (Serie A title)
Winners (3): 1941-42, 1982-83, 2000-01
Runners-up (10): 1930-31, 1935-36, 1954-55, 1980-81, 1983-84, 1985-86, 2001-02, 2003-04, 2005-06, 2006-07
Coppa Italia
A mural of Francesco Totti painted after the 2001 Serie A victoryWinners (8): 1963-64, 1968-69, 1979-80, 1980-81, 1983-84, 1985-86, 1990-91, 2006-07
Runners-up (6): 1936-37, 1940-41, 1992-93, 2002-03, 2004-05, 2005-06
Supercoppa Italiana
Winners (2): 2001, 2007
Runners-up (2): 1991, 2006
UEFA Champions League (European Cup)
Runners-up (1): 1983-84
Inter-Cities Fairs Cup
Winners (1): 1960-61
UEFA Cup
Runners-up (1): 1990-91
Anglo-Italian Cup
Winners (1): 1971/72
Associazione Sportiva Roma (ISE: IT0001008876) is a major professional football club both in Italy’s Serie A and in European football. The team has spent its entire history (but one season in 1951-52) in the top flight of Italian football: the club will play in the 2007-08 campaign its 56th straight season in Serie A.
Roma's home strip comprises of maroon red shirts with golden yellow borders, white shorts and black socks (or maroon red shorts and socks in highly important games), thus earning them their nickname i Giallorossi (the Yellow-Reds). The emblem of the team portrays the female wolf with the two infant brothers Romulus and Remus, illustrating the well-known myth of the creation of Rome, superimposed on a bipartite golden yellow over maroon red shield. The official colours also reflect the gold and maroon bipartite of the flag of the Eternal City, with the former symbolizing God in Christianity, and the latter imperial dignity.
At the end of the 2006-07 footballing season, A.S. Roma are the Coppa Italia holders, runners-up of the Serie A Championship and quarter-finalists of the UEFA Champions League.
Youth Team Awards:
Campionato Nazionale Primavera
Winner (6): 1972-73, 1973-74, 1977-78, 1983-84, 1989-90, 2004-05
Coppa Italia Primavera
Winner (3): 1973-74, 1974-75, 1993-94
Torneo di Viareggio
Winner (3): 1981, 1983, 1991
Runners-up (7): 1950, 1957, 1978, 1985, 1989, 1992, 2007
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