2006–07 A.S. Roma season

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Roma
2006–07 season
Chairman Italy Rosella Sensi
Manager Italy Luciano Spalletti
Serie A 2nd
Coppa Italia Winners
Champions League Quarter-finals
Top goalscorer League:
Italy Francesco Totti (26)
All:
Italy Francesco Totti (32)
← 2005–06 2007–08 →

During the 2006–07 football season, A.S. Roma played its 74th Serie A league season, finishing runner-up; the UEFA Champions League, finishing as quarter-finalists; and the Coppa Italia, winning the trophy for the eighth time.

The season is mostly remembered for the collapse Roma suffered at the hands of Manchester United in the Champions League quarter-finals, United coming back from a 2–1 defeat in Rome, to demolish the Italians at Old Trafford, winning 7–1.

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[edit] Team Kit and Sponsors

During this season, Roma's kits had no sponsor for the second consecutive year and were produced by Diadora.
Home kit
Away kit
Champions League kit

[edit] Events

The typical AS Roma formation during 2006-07

Roma finished the 2005–06 Serie A in fifth place, but after the sentences of the 2006 Italian football scandal that deducted all of Juventus's points, and thirty each from Milan and Fiorentina, Roma finished 2nd after Internazionale, and thus gaining the qualification to the group stage of the 2006–07 UEFA Champions League.

The summer transfer window brought some changes in the Roma tactical formation, the most important was the signing of David Pizarro, a deep-lying playmaker that the coach Luciano Spalletti had already had when he was at Udinese, and considered fundamental for Roma's skill play. Another important signing was Max Tonetto, who took the place of left fullback Leandro Cufré, who was sold to Monaco. Other players such as Mirko Vučinić, Matteo Ferrari, Marco Cassetti and Ricardo Faty were signed to get the squad bigger.

The first match of the season was the Supercoppa Italiana against Internazionale, the match was played on 26 August 2006 in San Siro and, after the 34th minute Roma were leading 0-3 with two goals by Alberto Aquilani and one by Mancini. However, the physical condition of the giallorossi was still weak and so, the nerazzurri succeeded in reaching the draw with two goals by Patrick Vieira and one by Hernán Crespo; in extra-time Inter scored the fourth and winning goal with a free kick by Luís Figo.

In the first part of the season Roma, Inter and Palermo raced to the top of the league but early, Inter started to lead the Serie A and kept first place until the end. During the winter summer window Vincenzo Montella was loaned to Fulham because he didn't have many chances to play and wanted to try the English Premier League, he was replaced with the loans of Francesco Tavano and Christian Wilhelmsson.

Roma ware drawn for the Group D of the 2006–07 UEFA Champions League together with Valencia, Shakhtar Donetsk and Olympiacos, and finished second after Valencia with 10 points (3 victories, 1 draw and 2 defeats). In the first knockout round Roma had to play against Lyon, a team that had already won 6 consecutive French championships and were the favourites to pass the round,[1] however after a 0-0 draw in Stadio Olimpico (with many controversial decisions by English referee Mike Riley that yellow carded eleven players[2]), Roma won 0-2 in the Stade de Gerland with goals by Francesco Totti and Mancini that scored a sensational goal performing a total of 5 stepovers in front of Lyon's dazed defender Anthony Réveillère.[3]

In the quarter-finals Roma faced Manchester United, winning the first leg 2–1 with goals by Rodrigo Taddei and Mirko Vučinić, but in the second leg, after being undefeated in 10 games in all competitions and having the then-best performing defense of the tournament, they suffered an amazing 7-1 defeat at Old Trafford.

The Coppa Italia shown in the last AS Roma's match of the 2006-07 season

Roma won their eighth Coppa Italia after beating Triestina, Parma, Milan and finally Internazionale. Roma won the two final games with an aggregate result of 7–4; the first leg ended with a surprising 6–2 while the second leg, though Inter's president Massimo Moratti claimed that they didn't care a lot about the Coppa Italia,[4] was played with animosity and determination by the nerazzurri,[5] but the result of 2–1 gave the trophy to Roma.

Roma ended the 2006–07 Serie A as runners-up and secured second place with three games to go, behind Internazionale. Although the nerazzurri dominated the championship, they lost the match against giallorossi 1-3 in San Siro, the same stadium in which Roma also beat the 2007 Champions League winner Milan 2–1, with two goals by Francesco Totti. The Roma captain scored a total of 32 goals in the season, and became the Serie A topscorer with 26 goals and also won the European Golden Shoe, the trophy awarded to the best topscorer of Europe.

[edit] Current Squad

As of 28 May 2007:
In italics, players involved in transfer during the season

No. Player Pos Lge
Apps		 Lge
Gls		 CL
Apps		 CL
Gls		 CI
Apps		 CI
Gls		 Tot
Apps		 Tot
Gls		 First Match with AS Roma Previous Club
Goalkeepers
1 Italy Gianluca Curci GK 6 0 - - 5 0 11 0 19 December 2004 AS Roma Primavera
12 Italy Pietro Pipolo GK - - - - - - - - - AS Roma Primavera
27 Brazil Júlio Sérgio Bertagnoli GK - - - - - - - - - América FC
32 Brazil Doni GK 31 0 10 0 2 0 43 0 23 October 2005 Juventude
Defenders
2 Italy Christian Panucci RB 29 (5) 5 9 1 6 0 44 (5) 6 23 September 2001 AS Monaco FC
5 France Philippe Mexès CB 26 3 7 0 5 0 38 3 12 September 2004 AJ Auxerre
13 Romania Cristian Chivu CB 25 0 8 0 5 (1) 0 38 (1) 0 14 September 2003 Ajax AFC
19 Brazil Rodrigo Defendi CB 0 0 0 (1) 0 1 0 1 (1) 0 2006 Tottenham FC
21 Italy Matteo Ferrari CB 23 (3) 1 6 0 4 0 33 (3) 1 19 September 2004 Parma FC
22 Italy Max Tonetto LB 27 (3) 0 7 0 4 (2) 0 38 (5) 0 9 September 2006 UC Sampdoria
25 Argentina Leandro Cufré LB 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 22 September 2002 Gimnasia La Plata
33 Italy Gianluca Freddi CB - - - - - - - - 2005 AS Roma Primavera
77 Italy Marco Cassetti RB 18 (10) 2 7 (1) 0 1 (4) 0 26 (15) 2 24 September 2006 US Lecce
Midfielders
4 Sweden Christian Wilhelmsson W 12 (7) 1 2 (1) 0 2 (1) 0 16 (9) 1 9 September 2006 FC Nantes Atlantique
7 Chile David Pizarro PM 29 (2) 1 5 (2) 1 5 (1) 3 39 (5) 5 9 September 2006 Internazionale
8 Italy Alberto Aquilani MF 8 (4) 1 4 (1) 0 2 2 14 (5) 5 10 May 2003 AS Roma Primavera
11 Brazil Rodrigo Taddei W 24 (4) 5 8 2 5 0 37 (4) 7 28 August 2005 AC Siena
14 France Ricardo Faty DM 3 (7) 0 1 (2) 0 0 (1) 0 4 (10) 0 17 September 2006 RC Strasbourg
16 Italy Daniele De Rossi MF 33 (2) 2 10 2 7 1 50 (2) 5 25 January 2003 AS Roma Primavera
18 Italy Valerio Virga W 1 (2) 0 1 0 1 1 3 (2) 1 10 April 2005 AS Roma Primavera
20 Italy Simone Perrotta MF 32 (2) 8 7 (2) 1 5 (2) 4 44 (6) 13 12 September 2004 Chievo Verona
28 Italy Aleandro Rosi W 4 (13) 2 0 (4) 0 1 (3) 0 5 (20) 2 28 May 2005 AS Roma Primavera
30 Brazil Mancini W 25 (4) 8 7 1 7 3 39 (4) 12 31 August 2003 Atlético Mineiro
34 Italy Massimiliano Marsili MF 0 0 0 0 0 (1) 0 0 (1) 0 10 April 2005 AS Roma Primavera
Forwards
9 Italy Vincenzo Montella FW 5 (7) 3 0 (3) 0 1 1 6 (10) 4 29 August 1999 UC Sampdoria
10 Italy Francesco Totti FW 35 26 (5 PK) 9 4 5 2 49 32 28 March 1993 AS Roma Primavera
17 Italy Francesco Tavano FW 7 (7) 2 0 0 0 (2) 0 7 (9) 2 12 September 2004 Valencia CF
23 Montenegro Mirko Vučinić FW 5 (19) 2 2 (4) 1 1 0 8 (23) 3 22 October 2006 US Lecce
35 Italy Stefano Okaka Chuka WF 0 (6) 1 0 (3) 0 1 (1) 0 1 (10) 1 10 December 2005 AS Roma Primavera
99 Egypt Mido FW 0 0 0 0 0 (1) 0 0 (1) 0 19 September 2004 Olympique Marseille

[edit] Serie A

[edit] Matches

[edit] Coppa Italia

Round Date and time Opponent team Home/Away Result
Round of 16 - 1st leg November 8, 2006 – 20.30 Triestina A 1-2 Montella (2)
Round of 16 - 2nd leg November 29, 2006 – 17.00 Triestina H 2-0 Virga, Montella
Quarter-finals - 1st leg January 10, 2007 – 21.00 Parma H 2-1 Mancini, Totti
Quarter-finals - 2nd leg January 17, 2007 – 17.30 Parma A 2-2 De Rossi, Pizarro
Semi-finals - 1st leg January 25, 2007 – 21.15 Milan A 2-2 Perrotta, Pizarro
Semi-finals - 2nd leg January 31, 2007 – 21.15 Milan H 3-1 Mancini, Perrotta, Pizarro
Final - 1st leg May 9, 2007 – 18.00 Inter H 6-2 Totti, De Rossi, Perrotta,
Mancini, Panucci (2)
Final - 2nd leg May 17, 2007 – 17.30 Inter A 2-1 Perrotta

[edit] Champions League

[edit] Group stage

[edit] Round of 16

[edit] Quarter-finals

[edit] Supercoppa Italiana

Round Date and time Opponent team Home/Away Result
Final August 26, 2006 – 20.45 Inter A 4-3a.e.t. Aquilani (2), Mancini

[edit] References

  1. ^ Champions: sarà Roma-Lione
  2. ^ UEFA: AS Roma - Olympique Lyonnais 0:0 - Roma bloccata sul pari
  3. ^ Mancini Lyon-Roma (0:2)
  4. ^ Altro che "chi se ne frega", io fossi Moratti sarei molto incazzato!
  5. ^ Tim Cup: Inter-Roma 2-1, con onore
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