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From Rhizoid's post, edited by JCK
Associazione Sportiva Livorno Calcio s.r.l. (1915)
Matr. 80895 - via Indipendenza, 16
57126 Livorno - Telefono 0586 219295
The city of Livorno lies on the west coast of northern Italy in the Regione (region) of Toscana (Tuscany). Toscana includes the famous Fiorentina, and other Serie A minnows Empoli and Siena, not to mention Serie B's Arezzo whom we played last year.
Livorno were known as Toscana FC, before being officially established in 1915 as U.S. Livorno (Unione Sportiva, I think). They began to play their football in Stadio Armando Picchi since October the 8th, 1933 when they beat fellow rivals Fiorentina 3-0 during its inauguration. Of course, at the time Italy was under Mussolini, and the newly built stadium was called Edda Ciano Mussolini - after Benito's daughter. The stadium was created by a famous Florentine architect, Raffaello Brizzi, who masterminded the 20,000 capacity (approx. 15,000 seated) structure back then.
Stadio Armando Picchi -
The stadium was named Armando Picchi in 2000, after their famous Libero defender from the 1950's. He moved on to other clubs, as Livorno were struggling in Serie B at the time.
Armando...or Nando, was a crucial player in defining the Catenaccio movement of Helenio Herrera's Inter of the 1960's. After Livorno, he featured prominently for the Nerazzurri, winning 3 Scudetti, 2 Champions Leagues, and 2 Intercontinental cups and 12 caps for Italy. Here he is pictured below with the legendary Pele.
Livorno has a had a turbulent history ever since 1949, since they got relegated to Serie B...and never looked ahead since then until 2004. They struggled in the lower divisions, often yo-yo-ing between Serie B, C1, C2, Serie D...and even a division below that- the "Eccellenza Regionale" during the 1991-1992 season!
But the dream came true, the below 2003/2004 squadra Amaranto were able to achieve a historic promotion from Serie B to A:
Pavarini, Melara, Vanigli, Cannarsa, Balleri, Grauso, Ruotolo, Doga, Lucarelli, Protti, Vigiani
Sealing a 3-1 win away to Piacenza in 2004 was a turning point in the history of Livorno earning them direct promotion to Serie A. Mind you, that season Serie B was 24 teams! Livorno finished an impressive 3rd place, thus directly promoting them to Serie A for the first time in 55 years!
It was the mastermind of current Sampdoria manager, Walter Mazzarri who guided the team to promotion.
Here is a picture of the fans from that great evening in Piacenza...
I couldn't find any more pics from that match...but what I did find was pics from the "Festa" after their final home match the following weekend!
Unlike Bari where his goals counted for nothing, despite surpassing Batistuta...Igor Protti scored dozens of goals for the Amaranto to take them to Serie A...the fans love him...
But the real home town hero in Livorno is an all too familiar name - Cristian Lucarelli!!!
Here he is (against our very own Molinaro) versus Siena...
In 2004/2005 guided by Roberto Donadoni, Livorno had lined up a decent squad for survival in Serie A. With impressive scorelines, like holding Juve to a 2-2 draw, beating Lazio 1-0, a 1-0 win vs. Milan...however, they struggled away from home, barely won 2 matches on the road in that season. They finished 9th place.
2005/2006 proved to be a more challenging season. New comers Lazetic (from Chievo), Palladino on load from Juve, an old-timer ("has-been" - remember this term, I will use it later) Bakayoko, hard working midfielder Stefano Morrone, and veteran Diego De Ascentis.
Altho, the names aren't too fancy, Donadoni's men still managed to finish 9th...and then 6th after the Calciopoli scandal judgment. Hence, this ensured them a historic qualification to the UEFA Cup.
Livorno made an encouraging start to the UEFA cup the following season under Daniele Arrigoni, but were eventually knocked out by Espanyol 4-1 on aggregate. Their best result was a 1-0 win vs. Auxerre away at the stade Abbe Deschamps
Arrigoni was sacked just after the halfway point, until his replacement Fernando Orsi came in, with the team finishing in 11th place, managing to steer away from relegation.
This year Livorno have reinforced their squad yet again for survival, this time with old timer Vikash Dhorasoo, Italian flop Francesco Tavano, and the legendary "has been"-Super Depor striker...DIEGO TRISTAN!!! Lucarelli99 ended up going to Shakhtar Donetsk. Other new comers include, former Juve player Giannichedda, former Fiorentina Serie C and B hero Christian Rigano, Fausto Rossini (Atalanta youth graduate, was highly rated as a youngster, a flop now), and speaking of graduates there's a Juve youth in there too - Francesco Volpe who I think is there on loan.
Oh and the old Filippini twins Emmanuele and Antonio are reunited, once again
I never expected this man who terrorized Juve's defense on more than one occasion...would come back to haunt us in a Livorno shirt!!!
The squad roster (WikiPedia)
1 GK Marco Amelia
3 MF Emanuele Filippini
4 MF Antonio Filippini
6 DF Fabio Galante
7 MF Nico Pulzetti
8 MF José Luís Vidigal
9 MF Martin Bergvold
10 FW Francesco Tavano
14 GK Alfonso De Lucia
15 DF Dario Knežević
16 MF Giuliano Giannichedda
18 DF Rahman Rezaei
20 FW Fausto Rossini
21 MF Massimo Loviso
22 FW Diego Tristán
23 FW Alessandro Diamanti
24 MF Vikash Dhorasoo
26 DF Giovanni Pasquale
32 DF Simone Pavan
69 DF David Balleri
77 DF Alessandro Grandoni
78 FW Francesco Volpe
Livorno's likely starting 11 for this match:
Livorno: Amelia, Grandoni, Knezevic, Galante, Pasquale, A. Filippini, Pulzetti, Loviso, E. Filippini, Tristan, Tavano
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The game is already on the schedule of my dutch sports channel. I love being back in A!
we're back!! 
on channel 5 but hopefully juve will be on there soon. i think this will be a thogh test 4 us because we need 2 get used 2 searie a again
Funny fucker.