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==Retired numbers==
==Retired numbers==

Revision as of 19:03, 31 August 2007

Livorno
logo
Full nameAssociazione Sportiva
Livorno Calcio SrL
Nickname(s)Amaranto (dark red)
Labronici (Lighbourners)
Founded1915
GroundStadio Armando Picchi,
Livorno, Italy
Capacity18,200
ChairmanItaly Aldo Spinelli
ManagerItaly Fernando Orsi
LeagueSerie A
2006-07Serie A, 11th

Associazione Sportiva Livorno Calcio is a football club based in Livorno, Tuscany. The club was formed in 1915 and currently plays in Italian Serie A, having returned there in 2004 after last playing in Italy's top division in 1949. The team's colors are dark red or maroon (amaranto in Italian, from which the team nickname derives). The best placement in Italian Serie A was second place in 1942/1943 season, during which the amaranto gave life to a head-to-head competition with Torino. The team features in their home fixtures at the 18,200 seater Stadio Armando Picchi.

History

Founed in 1915 as U.S. Livorno, the club ended the Italian Football Championship 1919-20 in second place, losing the final to Inter. One year later they were defeated in the semi-final by arch-rivals Pisa. In 1933 the club moved to the current stadium, originally named after Edda Ciano Mussolini, daughter of fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. Successively Livorno ended as Serie A runners-up in the 1942-43 season. Livorno left Serie A in 1949 after seven consecutive seasons. They relegated to Serie C soon after, making a return to Serie B in 1955 for a single season and again from 1964 to 1972. The club was then cancelled in 1991, being forced to start from Eccellenza; two consecutive promotions led the team back to Serie C2. The club was promoted to Serie C1 in 1997 and was acquired by Aldo Spinelli two years later. Under the new property, Livorno returned to Serie B in 2001.

Livorno were promoted to Serie A after finishing third in the Serie B 2003-04, one of six clubs to be promoted that season. It had been fifty-five years since Livorno's last season in the top flight, and as a result of this, most were predicting an instant return to Serie B for the club. There were spells of struggle during the season, but there were many more good performances shown, and Livorno finished a surprise and creditable ninth place in the league for the Serie A 2004-05, also thanks to goals by striker Cristiano Lucarelli, who won the Serie A topscorer award that season outscoring even the likes of Shevchenko and Adriano.

The Serie A 2005-06 saw Livorno in sixth place after the first half of the season the team, being involved for qualification to the next UEFA Cup. However, shortly after Roberto Donadoni announced his resignations after having been criticised by club's chairman Aldo Spinelli. Donadoni was replaced by veteran coach Carlo Mazzone, who was only able to save a UEFA Cup place due to the expulsion of four teams from Europe in the 2006 Serie A match fixing scandal. Mazzone then saw his team suffer a run of seven straight defeats. In May 2006 Daniele Arrigoni was appointed new coach for the next season.

In the Serie A 2006-07, Livorno took part to the UEFA Cup for their first time ever. The Tuscan side were drawn to face Austrian team SV Pasching in the first round, beating them comfortably 3-0 on aggregate. They thus qualified for the group stages being drawn in Group A, along with Rangers, Auxerre, Partizan Belgrade and Maccabi Haifa. After a home loss to Rangers (2-3) and two 1-1 draws against Partizan (in Serbia, where goalkeeper Marco Amelia scored in the 87th minute) and Maccabi (in Livorno), the Tuscan side gained a 1-0 victory over Auxerre in the last game played in France, thus earning a spot in the round of 32 of the competition. However, Spanish team Espanyol knocked out Livorno from the UEFA Cup by winning 4-1 on aggregate.

After day 19 of Italian Serie A Arrigoni was sacked by chairman Spinelli, but his position was kept due to the strong opposition by the team. His dismissal was however only delayed, as Arrigoni was eventually fired on March 21, 2007, and replaced by Fernando Orsi who managed to keep the team away from the relegation battle. For the 2007-08 campaign, Orsi was confirmed as head coach and a number of notable signings such as Francesco Tavano and Vikash Dhorasoo were finalized, but also the transfer of Lucarelli to Ukrainian club FC Shakhtar Donetsk.

First team squad

As of July 24, 2007[1][2] Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Italy ITA Marco Amelia
3 MF Italy ITA Antonio Filippini
4 MF Italy ITA Emanuele Filippini
6 DF Italy ITA Fabio Galante
7 MF Italy ITA Nico Pulzetti
8 MF Portugal POR José Luís Vidigal
9 MF Denmark DEN Martin Bergvold
10 FW Italy ITA Francesco Tavano
14 GK Italy ITA Alfonso De Lucia
15 DF Croatia CRO Dario Knežević
16 MF Italy ITA Giuliano Giannichedda
No. Pos. Nation Player
18 DF Iran IRN Rahman Rezaei
20 FW Italy ITA Fausto Rossini
21 MF Italy ITA Massimo Loviso
22 FW Spain ESP Diego Tristán
23 FW Italy ITA Alessandro Diamanti
24 MF France FRA Vikash Dhorasoo
26 DF Italy ITA Giovanni Pasquale
32 DF Italy ITA Simone Pavan
69 DF Italy ITA David Balleri
77 DF Italy ITA Alessandro Grandoni
78 FW Italy ITA Francesco Volpe

2007-08 summer signings

3 MF Italy ITA Emanuele Filippini (from Bologna)[3]
21 MF Italy ITA Massimo Loviso (from Bologna)[3]
20 FW Italy ITA Fausto Rossini (from Catania)[3]
10 FW Italy ITA Francesco Tavano (from Valencia CF)[3]
24 MF France FRA Vikash Dhorasoo (unattached)[4]
- GK Italy ITA Luca Mazzoni (loan return from Lecco)
23 FW Italy ITA Alessandro Diamanti (from Prato)
14 GK Italy ITA Alfonso De Lucia (from Parma)[5][6]
78 FW Italy ITA Francesco Volpe (from Juventus, co-ownership)[6]
7 MF Italy ITA Nico Pulzetti (from Verona)[7]
22 FW Spain ESP Diego Tristán (from RCD Mallorca)[8]
16 MF Italy ITA Giuliano Giannichedda (free agent)[9]

|- class="vcard agent" | style="text-align: center" | - | style="text-align: center" | MF | style="padding-right:15px;" | Honduras HON | style="padding-right:15px;" | Edgar Alvarez (loan from AS Roma)

Retired numbers

See also: Retired numbers in football (soccer)

In December 2005 Livorno officially retired the #10 jersey previously issued to striker Igor Protti, who played with Livorno from 1985 to 1988 and then from 1999 until his retirement from football in 2005. However Protti, who led the forward line and captained his side in two promotions from Serie C1 to Serie A quickly gaining a reputation as a fan favourite, announced his willingness to see the #10 number reissued to another player, in order to "give anybody back a dream to dress it one day". This will be made effective starting from the 2007-08 season, in which Francesco Tavano will play with the #10 number.[10]

Notable former players

See also cat:A.S. Livorno Calcio players

World Cup winners

Notable former managers

Supporters

Livorno's supporters are known for their left-wing politics and their fierce, often violent, rivalries with several "right wing" team supporters, especially those of S.S. Lazio, Internazionale, Hellas Verona, Silvio Berlusconi's A.C. Milan and with some elements of A.S. Roma's support. The notorious right-wing Lazio striker Paolo Di Canio gave a fascist salute to his own fans during a match between his side and Livorno, where tensions were running particularly high due to the political contrasts of each club's respective ultra groups.

References

  1. ^ "La rosa del Livorno Calcio 2007/2008" (in Italian). AS Livorno Calcio. Retrieved 2007-07-10.
  2. ^ "Decisi i numeri di maglia, ritorna il 10" (in Italian). AS Livorno Calcio. 2007-07-20. Retrieved 2007-07-20. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  3. ^ a b c d "Quattro nuovi acquisti del Livorno Calcio" (in Italian). AS Livorno Calcio. 2007-06-30. Retrieved 2007-06-30. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  4. ^ "Nuovo acquisto del Livorno: arriva Dhorasoo" (in Italian). AS Livorno Calcio. 2007-07-03. Retrieved 2007-07-03. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  5. ^ "Morrone è del Parma" (in Italian). FC Parma. 2007-07-12. Retrieved 2007-07-12. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  6. ^ a b "Volpe e De Lucia nuovi acquisti amaranto" (in Italian). AS Livorno Calcio. 2007-07-12. Retrieved 2007-07-12. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  7. ^ "Pulzetti nuovo acquisto del Livorno" (in Italian). AS Livorno Calcio. 2007-07-17. Retrieved 2007-07-17. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  8. ^ "Diego Tristan nuovo acquisto del Livorno" (in Italian). AS Livorno Calcio. 2007-07-23. Retrieved 2007-07-24. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  9. ^ "Giannichedda: Livorno la piazza giusta" (in Italian). AS Livorno Calcio. 2007-08-01. Retrieved 2007-08-01. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  10. ^ "Protti rimanda in campo il 10. A Livorno lo avrà Tavano" (in Italian). Gazzetta dello Sport. 2007-07-20. Retrieved 2007-07-20. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)

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