Spezia Calcio
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| Full name | Spezia Calcio | ||
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| Nickname(s) | Aquilotti (Little eagles) | ||
| Founded | 1906 2008 (refounded) |
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| Ground | Stadio Alberto Picco, La Spezia, Italy (Capacity: 10,336) |
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| Owner |  Gabriele Volpi |
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| Chairman | Matteo Volpi |
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| Manager | Michele Serena |
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| League | Lega Pro Prima Divisione B | ||
| 2010-11 | Lega Pro Prima Divisione A, 6th | ||
| Website | Club home page | ||
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Spezia Calcio 1906 is an Italian football club, based in La Spezia, Liguria. Founded in 1906, the team's colors are black and white. The club's home ground is Stadio Alberto Picco.
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[edit] History
[edit] 1944 scudetto
- See also Campionato Alta Italia 1944
In 1944, because of the World War II the Italian football federation decided to split the top league in regional rounds. The team, named 42° Corpo dei Vigili del Fuoco della Spezia (Firefighters of La Spezia) after a merger with the local firefighter in order to have a sufficient number of players, was included in Round D of Emilia-Romagna, together with Corradini Suzzara, Fidentina, Orlandi Busseto and Parma. Spezia won the round and qualified to the semi-finals, in which it challenged Suzzara, Carpi and Modena. Spezia won also this round, winning five of the six matches played, losing only to Carpi. By winning the semi-final round, Spezia was admitted to play a two-legs play-off against Bologna.
The first match, played in Bologna, was suspended because of incidents started after the 1–0 goal of Spezia, contested by the Bologna supporters; Spezia was awarded a 2–0 win because of that. The return match, scheduled to be played in La Spezia, was first moved to Carpi, because of the heavy bombings underwent by the Ligurian city in the period, then cancelled because of protest by Bologna chairman Renato Dall'Ara, so Spezia was admitted to the final without playing the return match.
The finals, held in Milan, were played against Venezia and Torino. On 9 July 1944, the first match between Spezia and Venezia was played: it ended in a 1–1 draw, commented by the Gazzetta as "surprising result".
On 16 July, Spezia challenged the Great Torino, with Vittorio Pozzo as coach and Silvio Piola as striker. The match ended in an epic 2–1 victory of Spezia. After the third match, in which Torino beat Venezia in a 5–2 win, Spezia was declared champion.
However, the Italian league of 1944 was not immediately considered as official by the Italian federation, because it was obtained during war times in a reduced league, and the only scudetto of Spezia was finally awarded only in 2002 by the Federation, even if not counted officially as an Italian championship triumph, but as a "decoration".
Today, Spezia remembers the 1944 triumph by playing with a tricolour badge on the team's official jersey (but different from the Scudetto), with the authorization of the Football Federation.
[edit] 2000s
In 2002, the club reached an agreement with Internazionale,[1] made the club became Inter's feeder club and reserve team. The team got Goran Pandev, Aco Stojkov (now Macedonian internationals) and Alex Cordaz in the first season. In the second season, Cristian Lizzori, Luca Ceccarelli and Nicola Napolitano was signed from Inter. In 2004–05 season Spezia got Antonio Rizzo from ACF Fiorentina and Paolo Castelli from Inter..
Players likes Alex Cordaz, Riccardo Meggiorini and Hernán Paolo Dellafiore joined the team directly from Inter to boost the team in January 2005. The season ended with winning Coppa Italia Serie C.[2] After the season, Inter sold most of the shares of Spezia.[3]
In 2006, the team won Serie C1 champion and promoted to Serie B. With mid-season signing Guilherme do Prado, Tomás Guzmán, Corrado Colombo and the old member Massimiliano Guidetti and Nicola Santoni, Spezia survived in Serie B. But in the next season, with Isah Eliakwu, Colombo and Do Prado, the club failed to make the miracle happened twice.
In 2008, due to financial difficulty and following their relegation from Serie B, the club was forced to declare bankruptcy. The team was later refounded as A.S.D. Spezia Calcio 2008 and admitted to Serie D.[4] In June 2011 FIGC banned numbers of former board member of old Spezia for sports fraud, namely Giuseppe Ruggeri, Cristina Cappelluti, Rocco Russo, Accursio Scorza, Piero Ausilio and Francesco Meriggi.[5]
Upon promotion in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione at the end of the Serie D 2008-09 season, A.S.D. Spezia bought the sports right of the old Spezia and took the current denomination.[6] Spezia finished Girone A of Lega Pro Seconda Divisione as 2nd and quaified for promotion play-offs in 2009–10 season. Spezia defeated Pavia at semifinal and Legnanoat final and promoted to Girone A of Lega Pro Prima Divisione with making second consecutive promotion.
[edit] Squad
As of 27 August, 2011. Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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[edit] Notable former players
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[edit] Seasons
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[edit] Honours
- Italian Championships 1: 1944 (decoration)
- Coppa Italia Serie C 1: 2004–05
- Supercoppa di Lega Serie C1 1: 2005–06
- Serie C 3: 1928–29, 1935–36, 1939–40
- Serie C1 1: 2005–06
- Serie C2 3: 1979–80, 1985–86, 1999–00
- Serie D 2: 1957–58, 1965–66
[edit] References
- ^ "INTER AND SPEZIA MAKE AN AGREEMENT: COMMON TECHNICAL STRATEGY, AND 30% OWNERSHIP TO NERAZZURRI". inter.it. 16 July 2002. http://www.inter.it/aas/news/reader?L=en&N=3712. Retrieved 11 January 2010.
- ^ "Spezia, la Coppa è tua!" (in Italian). Citta della Spezia. 5 May 2005. http://www.cittadellaspezia.com/La-Spezia/Cronaca/redirezionata-8654.aspx. Retrieved 26 March 2010.
- ^ "INTER SELL SPEZIA MAJORITY SHAREHOLDING". inter.it. 8 July 2005. http://www.inter.it/aas/news/reader?L=en&N=19256. Retrieved 11 January 2010.
- ^ "Calcio, è ufficiale: Spezia in Serie D" (in Italian). Il Vostro Giornale. 21 July 2008. http://www.ivg.it/2008/08/21/calcio-e-ufficiale-spezia-in-serie-d/. Retrieved 30 August 2008.
- ^ "(319) – DEFERIMENTO DELLA PROCURA FEDERALE A CARICO DI: ROBERTO QUBER, ATTILIO PAOLO GARBINI, ANGELO MOLINARI, STEFANO CARZOLA, MARCO FRIONE, GIUSEPPE SCIUMBATA, CRISTINA CAPPELLUTI, MILO CAMPAGNI, MAURO GUSBERTI, GIUSEPPE RUGGIERI, ROCCO RUSSO, ACCURSIO SCORZA, PIERO AUSILIO e FRANCESCO MERIGGI (Fallimento Società Spezia Calcio 1906 Srl) ▪ (nota N°. 5456/117pf09-10/AM/ma dell’11.2.2011).
(319-bis) – DEFERIMENTO DELLA PROCURA FEDERALE A CARICO DI: GIUSEPPE RUGGIERI (Fallimento Società Spezia Calcio 1906 Srl) ▪ (nota N°.8996/117pf09-10/AM/ma dell’24.5.2011)." (in Italian). FIGC. 22 June 2011. http://www.figc.it/Assets/contentresources_2/ContenutoGenerico/21.$plit/C_2_ContenutoGenerico_28889_StrilloComunicatoUfficiale_lstAllegati_Allegato_0_upfAllegato.pdf. Retrieved 1 January 2012. - ^ "Spezia Calcio SRL" (in Italian). Lega Italiana Calcio Professionistico. http://www.lega-calcio-serie-c.it/it/squadre/spezia.htm. Retrieved 20 August 2009.
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