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FC Guardia
Full nameA.S.D Guardia Svizzera Pontificia
Founded1934
GroundCampo Cardinale Francis Joseph Spellman
Rome, Italy
Capacity500
ChairmanChristoph Graf
ManagerFabio Bortoluzzi
LeagueVatican City Championship
2018/198th

FC Guardia is a Vaticanese football club that currently plays in the Vatican City Championship, the top level of football in Vatican City. The current club president is Christoph Graf and the current manager is Fabio Bortoluzzi.[1] The team, like all Vatican clubs, plays its matches at the Campo Cardinale Francis Joseph Spellman in Rome, Italy.[2] Despite being founded in 1934, the team has never won the league championship.[3][4][5] The squad consists of members of the Pontifical Swiss Guard.[6]

In October 2017 the team was a guest of German football club FC Bayern Munich, touring their facilities and meeting with its Italian head coach Carlo Ancelotti.[7]

References

  1. ^ "FC Guardia" (PDF) (in Italian). Sport in Vaticano. Retrieved 9 May 2017.
  2. ^ "Storia" (in Italian). Sport in Vaticano. Retrieved 9 May 2017.
  3. ^ Mattei, Giampala. "Lo scudetto vaticano? Ai Gendarmi E per gli Svizzeri "zero tituli"" (in Italian). L'Osservatore Romano. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
  4. ^ Rota, Davide. "Vatican City-List of Champions". RSSSF. Retrieved 10 May 2017.
  5. ^ "Albo d'Oro" (in Italian). Sport in Vaticano. Retrieved 10 May 2017.
  6. ^ "Vita Nella Guardia" (in Italian). guardiasvizzera.va. Retrieved 10 May 2017.
  7. ^ "Vatikan Fussballer besuchen Carlo Ancelotti" (in German). FC Bayern Munich. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
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