A.S. Roma

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Roma
Full name	Associazione Sportiva Roma SpA
Nickname(s)	Giallorossi (Yellow-red) Magica (Magic) I Lupi (The Wolves)
Founded	July 22, 1927
Ground	Stadio Olimpico Rome
Capacity	82,307
Chairman	Franco Sensi
Head Coach	Luciano Spalletti
League	Serie A
2005-06	Serie A, 5th (2nd)
Home colours 　 Away colours

Associazione Sportiva Roma (ISE: IT0001008876) is an Italian professional football club and one of the major teams in Serie A, the Italian top flight. Roma's home uniform is maroon red shirts with golden yellow borders, white shorts and black socks: they are nicknamed the giallorossi (the yellow-reds).

The emblem of the team is the Capitoline she-wolf suckling twins, which is the traditional symbol of the city of Rome, superimposed on a bipartite golden-yellow over red shield; the official colors are the same as those of the city of Rome, red for imperial dignity, and gold which supposedly represents the Pope or God in Christianity.

Contents 1 History 1.1 Foundation 1.2 1950s to 1970s 1.3 1980s and onwards 2 Supporters 3 First team squad 3.1 Out on loan 3.2 Retired numbers 4 Team honours 5 International Record 6 Former players 6.1 Early times 6.2 1946-1965 6.3 1965-1982 6.4 1983 scudetto 6.5 1983-2000 6.6 2001 scudetto 6.7 2000-Present 6.8 World Cup Winners 7 Coaches 8 References 9 External links

[edit] History

[edit] Foundation

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^{[citations 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. On the other hand Lazio, which was the strongest club in that period and which had the most to lose from a merger, refused to partake in any discussions regarding this issue and remained tied to the city bourgeoisie, from where it had been born. Other grounds that have been used by the A.S. Roma team are: Stadio Flaminio and Stadio Olimpico (the latter was built in 1952).

AS Roma took part in their first national league in the 1929-30 season and won their first Scudetto in 1941-42. The second one was won in the 1982-83 season and the third in 2000-01. They were runners-up in 1930-31, 1935-36, 1980-81, 1983-84, 1985-86, 2001-02, 2003-04 and 2005-06 (due to match-fixing scandal). They were relegated only once, at the end of the 1950-51 season, returning to Serie A the next season.

[edit] 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.

[edit] 1980s and onwards

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 FC, 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.

[edit] Supporters

The club plays at the 82,656 seater Stadio Olimpico, shared with S.S. Lazio. The two teams play twice a season in the Rome derby, a fiery, emotional match often marked with tension and occasional crowd trouble in and around the stadium. Two extreme incidents in particular have left their mark on the history of this fixture. In 1979, Lazio fan Vincenzo Paparelli was hit in the eye and killed by a flare fired by a Roma fan from the opposite end of the stadium (becoming the first fatality in Italian football history), and in 2003 an unprecedented event occurred when the Roma Ultras forced the game to be suspended after spreading false rumours among the crowd present that a child had been killed by the police prior to the beginning of the game.

Roma's principal ultras group until the middle of the 1990s was the left-leaning CUCS (Comando 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'etre and more just a part of their overall identity.

A conflict occurred on April 5, 2007, during the first leg of the Champions League Quarter finals against Manchester United. At half time, there was a serious clash between United fans and the riot police. Both sets of fans were hurling missiles and stampeding when Roma notched up their first goal towards the end of the first half. There had also been a pre-match incident where five supporters, three English and two Italian, were injured in clashes as fans made their way to the stadium.^[2]

Supporter's anthem "Roma Roma" written by Antonello Venditti is played before each match, and "Grazie Roma", by the same singer, is played at the end of home games when the team wins.

[edit] First team squad

As of March 16, 2007^[3]

No. Position Player 1 GK Gianluca Curci 2 DF Christian Panucci 3 DF Gilberto Martínez 4 MF Christian Wilhelmsson (on loan from Nantes) 5 DF Philippe Mexès 7 MF David Pizarro (co-owned by Inter) 8 MF Alberto Aquilani 10 FW Francesco Totti (Captain) 11 MF Rodrigo Taddei 12 GK Pietro Pipolo 13 DF Cristian Chivu 14 MF Ricardo Faty 16 MF Daniele De Rossi 17 FW Francesco Tavano (on loan from Valencia CF)

No. Position Player 18 MF Valerio Virga 19 DF Rodrigo Defendi (on loan from Tottenham Hotspur) 20 MF Simone Perrotta 21 DF Matteo Ferrari 22 DF Max Tonetto 23 FW Mirko Vučinić 27 GK Júlio Sérgio 28 MF Aleandro Rosi 30 MF Mancini 32 GK Doni 33 DF Gianluca Freddi 35 FW Stefano Okaka Chuka 77 DF Marco Cassetti

Captain Hierarchy

1. Francesco Totti
2. Christian Panucci
3. Daniele De Rossi
4. Cristian Chivu
5. Alesandro Mancini

[edit] Out on loan

		DF	Samuel Kuffour (at Livorno)
		DF	Paolo Seppani (at Frosinone)
		MF	Leandro Greco (at Hellas Verona)
		MF	Daniele Magliocchetti (at Hellas Verona)
		MF	Edgar Álvarez (at Messina)
		MF	Daniele Galloppa (at Ascoli)
		MF	Matteo Brighi (at Chievo)
		FW	Alessio Cerci (at Brescia)
		FW	Shabani Nonda (at Blackburn Rovers)
		FW	Vincenzo Montella (at Fulham)
		GK	Carlo Zotti (at Sampdoria)

[edit] Retired numbers

As of 2006, AS Roma has officially retired only one shirt, the number 6 worn by Aldair, centre back, 1990-2003.

[edit] Team honours

AS Roma has won three Italian Championships (Scudetti), seven Italian Cups (Coppa Italia) in 1963-64, 1968-69, 1979-80, 1980-81, 1983-84, 1985-86, and 1990-91; the Supercoppa Italiana in 2001, and the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup once in 1960-61, defeating Birmingham City. In 1984 AS Roma lost the final match of the European Cup, played in Rome, against Liverpool F.C., after a penalty shootout.

• Serie A: 3
  

1941-42, 1982-83, 2000-01

• Coppa Italia: 7
  

1963-64, 1968-69, 1979-80, 1980-81, 1983-84, 1985-86, 1990-91

• SuperCoppa Italia: 1
  

2000-01

• Inter-Cities Fairs Cup: 1
  

1960-61

• Anglo-Italian Cup: 1
  

1971-72

Youth team

• Torneo di Viareggio: 3
  

1981, 1983, 1991

[edit] International Record

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

[edit] Former players

See also: List of AS Roma players

[edit] Early times Luigi Allemandi Amedeo Amadei Sergio Andreoli Fulvio Bernardini Luigi Brunella Raffaele Costantino Cesare Augusto Fasanelli Attilio Ferraris IV Enrique Lucas Gonzales Guaita Naim Krieziu Arturo Chini Ludueña Guido Masetti Eraldo Monzeglio Miguel Angel Pantò Fosco Risorti Pietro Serantoni Rodolfo Volk

[edit] 1946-1965 Antonio Valentín Angelillo Orvar Bergmark Helge Bronée Sergio Carpanesi Francesco Carpenetti John Charles Giulio Corsini Fabio Cudicini Zoltán Czibor Dino Da Costa Giancarlo De Sisti Angelo Domenghini Alcides Ghiggia Alberto Ginulfi Luigi Giuliano Francisco Ramón Lojacono Giacomo Losi Pedro Manfredini Carlo Mazzone Gunnar Nordahl István Nyers Alberto Orlando Luciano Panetti Bruno Pesaola Paolo Pestrin Claudio Ranieri Juan Alberto Schiaffino Karl-Heinz Schnellinger Arne Selmonsson Angelo Sormani Giosuè Stucchi Armando Tre Re Arcadio Venturi

[edit] 1965-1982 Amarildo Paolo Barison Aldo Bet Dario Bonetti Loris Boni Fabio Capello Francesco Cappelli Renato Cappellini Paolo Conti Franco Cordova Michela De Nadai Luis Del Sol Agostino Di Bartolomei Walter Franzot Domenico Maggiora Giorgio Morini Piergiorgio Negrisolo Fernando Orsi Franco Peccenini Joaquín Lucas Peiró Pier Luigi Pizzaballa Pierino Prati Francesco Rocca Sergio Santarini Francesco Scaratti Franco Selvaggi Valerio Spadoni Luciano Spinosi Giuliano Taccola

[edit] 1983 scudetto Carlo Ancelotti Paolo Baldieri Gianni Boccia Odoacre Chierico Bruno Conti Agostino Di Bartolomei Paolo Alberto Faccini Paulo Roberto Falcão Massimo Gregori Giuseppe Giannini Paolo Giovannelli Maurizio Iorio Settimio Lucci Aldo Maldera Michele Nappi Sebastiano Nela Herbert Prohaska Roberto Pruzzo Ubaldo Righetti Roberto Scarnecchia Franco Superchi Franco Tancredi Maurizio Turone Claudio Valigi Pietro Vierchowod

[edit] 1983-2000 Dmitry Alenichev Klaus Berggreen Thomas Berthold Manuele Blasi Walter Bonacina Zbigniew Boniek Ruben Buriani Claudio Caniggia Massimiliano Cappioli Amedeo Carboni Andrea Carnevale Toninho Cerezo Giovanni Cervone Antonio Chimenti Lampros Choutos Francesco Colonnese Fulvio Collovati Antonio Comi Daniele Conti Martin Dahlin Daniele De Vezze Luigi Di Biagio Angelo Di Livio Fabrizio Di Mauro Gianluca Festa Daniel Fonseca Luigi Garzja Renato Gaúcho Manuel Gerolin Giuseppe Giannini Ciccio Graziani Thomas Häßler Iván Helguera Michael Konsel Marco Lanna Lionello Manfredonia Daniele Massaro Siniša Mihajlović Francesco Moriero Roberto Muzzi Emilio Oddi Paulo Sérgio Fábio Júnior Pereira Angelo Peruzzi Giovanni Piacentini Ruggiero Rizzitelli Fausto Salsano Nevio Scala Gianluca Signorini Sebastiano Siviglia Desideri Stefano Giorgio Sterchele Antonio Tempestilli Rudi Völler Pierre Wome

[edit] 2001 scudetto Aldair Marco Amelia Francesco Antonioli Marcos Assunção Abel Balbo Gabriel Batistuta Cesare Bovo Cafu Vincent Candela Gaetano D'Agostino Marco Delvecchio Ednilson Eusebio Di Francesco Emerson Gianni Guigou Sergey Gurenko Maurizio Lanzaro Cristiano Lupatelli Amedeo Mangone Vincenzo Montella Hidetoshi Nakata Paolo Poggi Alessandro Rinaldi Walter Samuel Damiano Tommasi Francesco Totti (captain) Alessandro Tulli Antonio Carlos Zago Cristiano Zanetti Jonathan Zebina

[edit] 2000-Present Akande Ajide Edgar Álvarez John Carew Antonio Cassano Sebastian Cejas Alessio Cerci Leandro Cufré Olivier Dacourt Raffaele De Martino Traianos Dellas Dimitrios Eleftheropoulos Damiano Ferronetti Diego Fuser Leandro Greco Josep Guardiola Houssine Kharja Samuel Kuffour Francisco Lima Massimo Marazzina Ahmad Hossam Mido Shabani Nonda Ivan Pelizzoli Walter Samuel Luigi Sartor Giuseppe Scurto Paolo Seppani Abel Xavier

[edit] World Cup Winners Attilio Ferraris IV (Italy 1934) Enrico Guaita (Italy 1934) Guido Masetti (Italy 1934, France 1938) Aldo Donati (France 1938) Eraldo Monzeglio (France 1938) Pietro Serantoni (France 1938) Alcides Edgardo Ghiggia (Brazil 1950) [[Juan Alberto Schiaffino (Brazil 1950) Bruno Conti (Spain 1982) Thomas Berthold (Italy 1990) Rudi Völler (Italy 1990) Aldair (USA 1994) Vincent Candela (France 1998) Cafu (Korea-Japan 2002) Daniele De Rossi (Germany 2006) Simone Perrotta (Germany 2006) Francesco Totti (Germany 2006)

[edit] Coaches

Main article: List of AS Roma Managers

Luciano Spalletti (2005-) Bruno Conti (2005) Luigi Del Neri (2004-05) Rudi Völler (2004) Cesare Prandelli (2004) Fabio Capello (1999-04) Zdeněk Zeman (1997-99) Ezio Sella (1996) Carlos Bianchi (1996) Carlo Mazzone (1993-96) Vujadin Boškov (1992-93) Ottavio Bianchi (1990-92) Gigi Radice (1989-90) Luciano Spinosi (1988-89) Angelo Sormani (1986-88) Sven-Göran Eriksson (1984-86) Ferruccio Valcareggi (1979-80) Gustavo Giagnoni (1978-79) Nils Liedholm (1974-77, 1980-84, 1988, 1996) Manlio Scopigno (1973-74) Tonino Trebiciani] (1972-73) Luciano Tessari (1970) Helenio Herrera (1968-70, 1971-72) Oronzo Pugliese (1966-68) Juan Carlos Lorenzo (1965-66) Luis Mirò (1963-65)

Naim Krieziu (1963) Luis Carniglia (1961-63) Alfredo Foni (1960-61, 1963-64) Gunnar Nordahl (1958-59) Alec Stock (1957-58) György Sarosi (1956, 1959-1960) Jesse Carver (1954-56) Mario Varglien (1953-54) Giuseppe Viani (1951-53) Pietro Serantoni (1950) Adolfo Baloncieri (1950) Fulvio Bernardini (1949-50) Luigi Brunella (1948-49) Imre Senkey (1947-48) Giovanni Degni (1945-47) Guido Masetti (1943-45, 1950-51, 1956-57) Geza Kertesz (1942-43) Alfréd Schäffer (1939-42) Guido Ara (1938-39) Luigi Barbesino (1934-38) Lajos Kovács (1933-34) Jonas Barr (1932-33) Francis Burgess (1930-32) Guido Baccani (1929-30) Willy Garbutt (1927-29)

[edit] 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. ^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6528049.stm
3. ^ asroma.it

[edit] External links

• (Italian) (Chinese) Official Site
• AS Roma Statistics
• Roma Formations at football-lineups

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