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Roma
emblem
Full nameAssociazione Sportiva Roma SpA
Nickname(s)i Giallorossi (the Yellow-reds)
La Magica (The Magic)
i Lupi (the Wolves)
FoundedJuly 22, 1927
GroundStadio Olimpico
Rome
Capacity82,307
ChairmanItaly Franco Sensi
Head CoachItaly Luciano Spalletti
LeagueSerie A
2006-07Serie A, 2nd

Associazione Sportiva Roma (BIT: {{{2}}}) is a major professional football club both in Italy’s Serie A and in European football.

Roma's home strip comprises of maroon red shirts with golden yellow borders, white shorts and black socks, 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.

History

Main article: History of A.S. Roma

Foundation

Historical AS Roma positions in Serie A

A.S. Roma was founded in July 1927. At the time, the city of Rome had several teams in the Italian football league: S.S. Lazio (1900)[1], Roman F.C. (1901[citation needed]), S.S. Alba-Audace Roma (founded in 1926 through the merger of Alba (1911) and Audace) and Fortitudo-Pro Roma S.G.S. (founded in 1926 through the merger of Fortitudo (1908) and Pro Roma (1912)), however most of them were weak financially and uncompetitive. Spurned on by the government's desire for each Italian city to be represented by one major club (as was done in Florence, Naples and Bari), Alba-Audace, Fortitudo-Pro Roma and Roman merged to form A.S. Roma. After a short use of the Motovelodromo Appio stadium, the yellow-red team settled in the working-class streets of Testaccio, where it built the extraordinary all-wooden homonym ground. The area still remains the club's spiritual heartland. Other grounds that have been used by A.S. Roma are the Stadio Flaminio and the Stadio Olimpico (the latter was built in 1952).

1920's-1950's

A.S. Roma took part in their first national league in the 1929-30 season and won their first Scudetto in 1941-42. However, they would have to wait a considerable 41 years for their second triumph in the 1982-83 season and 18 years for their third in 2000-01. They have been runners-up in 1930-31, 1935-36, 1980-81, 1983-84, 1985-86, 2001-02, 2003-04, 2005-06 (after the final verdict on the match-fixing scandal) and 2006-07. A.S. Roma have been relegated only once in their 80 year history: this came at the end of the 1950-51 season, though they made a swift return to Serie A the following season.

1950s to 1970s

After returning to Serie A in 1952, Roma spent the remainder 1950s and early 1960s in the top half of Serie A. From 1963 to 1979 AS Roma endured a period of mediocrity with 3rd place in 1974-75 being the best they could manage, punctured by either mid-table mediocrity or flirtation with relegation. Notable players in this period include defender Giacomo Losi and midfielders Franco Cordova and Giancarlo De Sisti.

1980s and onwards

File:Pruzzo 78-79.jpg
Roberto Pruzzo was Roma's most effective striker in the 1980s.

With talented players including Bruno Conti, Agostino Di Bartolomei, Roberto Pruzzo and Falcao, Roma would begin the 1980s in its best position to challenge for the title since 1942. After narrowly (and controversially) missing out in 1981 to Juventus, they broke through in 1983 amidst joyous celebrations in the capital. They reached the European Cup final the following year, only to lose to Liverpool on penalties. In the 1990-1991 season, Roma reached the UEFA Cup final in which they lost to Inter Milan 2-1 on aggregate.

They have more or less remained in the top half of Serie A ever since, occasionally mounting a serious challenge for the title, which they won again in the 2000/2001 season by beating Parma 3-1 on the last day of the season, edging out Juventus by two points.

Francesco Totti was one of the main reasons for Roma's victory that season and has since become an icon of the club equal in status to Pruzzo and Conti before him. He is a hero to Roma supporters, even more today thanks to Italy's 2006 FIFA World Cup success. Since then Totti has become Roma's top scorer beating Pruzzo's previous tally of 106 goals.

Roma came close to a successful defense of their title, but lost out as another title race with Juve went to the wire. They missed out by just one point and had to settle for second place and an automatic UEFA Champions League spot. Since they won the scudetto Roma have finished second every season in either the Serie A or the Coppa Italia. They lost out to AC Milan in the Coppa Italia final in the 2002-2003 season (losing 4-2 on aggregate), and again in the Serie A in the 2003-2004 season where they finished second.

2004-2005 was an abysmal campaign where Roma flirted with relegation before finishing in 8th place. They managed to secure a UEFA Cup spot by reaching the Coppa Italia final which they lost to Inter Milan 3-0 on aggregate. Their Champions League campaign was even worse as they only managed 1 point from 6 games before finishing last in their group. Their first game was a 3-0 victory for Dynamo Kiev as they got penalized because an object from the stands hit the referee. The match was called off, victory was given to the Ukrainian outfit, and Roma had to play 2 home games behind closed doors. Their only point came from the 1-1 draw at home with Bayer Leverkusen thanks to a late goal by Vincenzo Montella.

AS Roma also made to the final of the 2005/06 Coppa Italia to face Inter Milan. They drew the First leg 1-1 but lost the return leg 3-1, losing 4-2 on aggregate. This was the second year in a row they lost to Inter Milan in the Coppa Italia final.

AS Roma beat Olympique Lyonnais to reach the quarter finals of the Champions League in 2007, but after taking a 2-1 lead over Manchester United at home and being undefeated in 10 games in all competitions, they suffered a 7-1 defeat in the second leg at Old Trafford (8-3 on aggregate). This was their first defeat in Europe since losing 1-0 to Shakhtar Donetsk in the group stage. It was also the biggest margin of victory in a quarter final match of either the European Cup or Champions League, since 1957-58, when Real Madrid beat Sevilla 8-0 (10-2 on aggregate).

The team secured second place in Serie A with three games to go, behind Inter Milan. Although the nerazzurri dominated the championship, they lost the match against Roma 1-3 in San Siro. The two clubs also faced each other in the two legs of the 2007 Coppa Italia final. Roma won the cup after an impressive 6-2 in the first leg, while lost 2-1 the second leg. It was the eighth Coppa Italia in Roma's history.

Supporters

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.) This change is comparable to what had happened a few years earlier at neighbors Lazio when the a-political "Eagles Supporters" were purged by the far right "Irriducibili", who on the other hand, have enjoyed complete control of the Curva Nord since 1992. 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)" 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 'free-styling' his own words to the song and the Roma supporters began singing Totti's version at games.

First team squad

As of June 19, 2007

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Italy ITA Gianluca Curci
2 DF Italy ITA Christian Panucci
5 DF France FRA Philippe Mexès
7 MF Chile CHI David Pizarro
8 MF Italy ITA Alberto Aquilani
10 FW Italy ITA Francesco Totti (Captain)
11 MF Brazil BRA Rodrigo Taddei
12 GK Italy ITA Pietro Pipolo
13 DF Romania ROU Cristian Chivu
14 MF France FRA Ricardo Faty
16 MF Italy ITA Daniele De Rossi
18 MF Italy ITA Valerio Virga
20 MF Italy ITA Simone Perrotta
21 DF Italy ITA Matteo Ferrari
22 DF Italy ITA Max Tonetto
No. Pos. Nation Player
23 FW Montenegro MNE Mirko Vucinic
28 MF Italy ITA Aleandro Rosi
30 MF Brazil BRA Mancini
32 GK Brazil BRA Doni
33 DF Italy ITA Gianluca Freddi
35 FW Italy ITA Stefano Okaka Chuka
77 DF Italy ITA Marco Cassetti
– MF Romania ROU Adrian Pit
– MF Ghana GHA Ahmed Barusso
– DF Brazil BRA Juan
- DF Ghana GHA Samuel Kuffour
- MF Honduras HON Edgar Álvarez
- MF Italy ITA Matteo Brighi
- FW Democratic Republic of the Congo COD Shabani Nonda
- FW Italy ITA Vincenzo Montella
- GK Italy ITA Carlo Zotti


Confirmed future transfers 2007-2008

In

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
— DF Ghana GHA Samuel Kuffour (loan return from Livorno)
— MF Honduras HON Edgar Álvarez (loan return from Messina)
— MF Italy ITA Matteo Brighi (loan return from Chievo)
— FW Democratic Republic of the Congo COD Shabani Nonda (loan return from Blackburn Rovers)
— FW Italy ITA Vincenzo Montella (loan return from Fulham)
— GK Italy ITA Carlo Zotti (loan return from Sampdoria)
— MF Chile CHI David Pizarro (full ownership from Inter)
— DF Italy ITA Marco Cassetti (full ownership from Lecce)
— FW Montenegro MNE Mirko Vucinic (full ownership from Lecce)
— MF Romania ROU Adrian Pit (free transfer, from Bellinzona)[2]
— MF Ghana GHA Ahmed Barusso (co-ownership from Rimini)[3]
— DF Brazil BRA Juan (full ownership from Bayer Leverkusen)[4]
Out

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
— FW Italy ITA Alessandro Tulli (co-ownership renewed Lecce)
— FW Italy ITA Daniele Corvia (to Siena)
— DF Italy ITA Damiano Ferronetti (to Parma)
— DF Italy ITA Giuseppe Scurto (to Chievo)
— DF Italy ITA Gianluca Comotto (to Torino)
— FW Italy ITA Alessandro Simonetta (to Arezzo)
— MF Sweden SWE Christian Wilhelmsson (to Nantes)
— DF Costa Rica CRC Gilberto Martinez (to Brescia)
— GK Brazil BRA Julio Sergio Bertagnoli (contract expired)
— DF Brazil BRA Defendi (to Tottenham)
— FW Italy ITA Francesco Tavano (to Valencia)

For recent transfers, see List of Italian football transfers 2007-08.

Retired numbers

Main article: Retired numbers in football (soccer)

6 – Brazil Aldair, centre back (1990-2003)

Team honours



International records

Season Achievement Notes
European Champions Clubs' Cup / UEFA Champions League
2006-07 Quarter-finals eliminated by Manchester United FC, 2-1 in Rome, 1-7 in Manchester
1983-84 Final defeated by Liverpool FC, 1-1, 2-4 on penalties
Cup Winners' Cup
1991-92 Quarter-finals eliminated by AS Monaco FC 0-0 in Rome, 0-1 in Monaco
1984-85 Quarter-finals eliminated by FC Bayern München 0-2 in Munich, 1-2 in Rome
1969-70 Semi-finals eliminated by Górnik Zabrze 1-1 in Rome, 2-2 in Zabrze
UEFA Cup
1998-99 Quarter-finals eliminated by Club Atlético de Madrid 1-2 in Madrid, 1-2 in Rome
1995-96 Quarter-finals eliminated by SK Slavia Praha 0-2 in Prague, 3-1 in Rome
1992-93 Quarter-finals eliminated by BV Borussia Dortmund 1-0 in Rome, 0-2 in Dortmund
1990-91 Final defeated by FC Internazionale Milano, 0-2 in Milan, 1-0 in Rome
1982-83 Quarter-finals eliminated by SL Benfica 1-2 in Rome, 1-1 in Lisbon
Inter-Cities Fairs Cup
1963-64 Quarter-finals eliminated by 1. FC Köln 3-1 in Rome, 0-4 in Koln
1962-63 Semi-finals eliminated by Valencia CF 0-3 in Valencia, 1-0 in Rome
1960-61 Winner won Birmingham City FC, 2-2 in Birmingham, 2-0 in Rome
1959-60 Quarter-finals eliminated by Union Saint-Gilloise 0-2 in Brussels, 1-1 in Rome


Notable former players

See also: List of AS Roma players

World Cup winners

Coaches

Main article: List of AS Roma Managers
 

References

  1. ^ S.S. Lazio was founded in 1900 as an athletics club [1] and a football section was founded in 1901 which began playing official matches in 1902. Over the course of the next decade the club played a mixture of tournaments and local championships until 1912 when the Italian football association began recognizing and organizing teams from the center and south of Italy into national championships.(Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio, Edizioni Panini)
  2. ^ Gazzetta dello Sport (2007-06-13). ""Piacere, sono Adrian Pit primo acquisto della Roma"" (in Italian). {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  3. ^ channel4.com (2007-06-15). ""Barusso lands Roma deal"". {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ AS Roma (2007-06-21). "Acquisizione a titolo definitivo del diritto alle prestazioni sportive del calciatore Juan Silveira dos Santos" (in Italian). {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)

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