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About ACF Fiorentina
In a way, the story of AFC Fiorentina represents the story of Italian football in a nutshell: a football club with passionate fans, this one located in Florence, the city of Renaissance, collapses due to financial mismanagement and dropped all the way to lower leagues, until it gets back on its feet and back to its former self. It’s all about football and romance.
According to Florence historians, the city is where Italian football was born, and they even called it “calcio”. As they tell it, it happened in late 15th century with a game they called “calcio Fiorentino”. In late 19th century, English football started spreading its influence and Florence Football Club was founded in 1898. By the turn of the century, the club no longer existed. The football club as we know it today was formed in 1926, after World War I, when two local clubs – cycling organization Club Sportivo Firenze and gymnastics society Palestra Ginnastica Fiorentina Libertas – merged their football teams and formed Associazione Fiorentina del Calcio (the Fiorentina Football Association).
Fiorentina won two Serie A titles, in 1955-56 and 1968-69. It also won six Coppa Italia and one Italian Supercoppa. Fiorentina became the first Italian team to reach the final of a European competition, loosing to Real Madrid in the 1956-57 final of the European Cup.
Fiorentina mostly played in Serie A, sometimes got relegated to Serie B, and had some fantastic players wearing the purple uniforms: Giancarlo Antognoni was one of them. The brilliant offensive midfielder played 15 years and 341 matches for Fiorentina between 1972-1987 and he is the club’s all-time appearance leader. Another was the young Roberto Baggio, who came from Vicenza in 1985, played 94 matches and scored 39 goals before being sold to archrival Juventus in 1990, a move that almost set the city on fire after the fans became extremely upset. And then there was Gabriel Batistuta. The Argentinian bomber arrived in 1991 and quickly set the tone. Before he left for Roma in search of a Scudetto in 2000, Batistuta played 269 matches for the Viola, scoring 168 goals that earned him the all-time goal scorer.
Everything came tumbling down in 2002, as Fiorentina was admitted to the Serie C2, the fourth tier of club football in Italy, after the club could no longer pay players’ wages and went into bankruptcy. In order to recoup, a new club was established under the name of Fiorentina Viola and new owners were textile businessmen and brothers Diego and Andrea Della Valle. After three hard seasons, the Viola was back to Serie A. On the way, the club was given permission to reuse the name ACF Fiorentina S.p.A. (a form of an Italian corporation), reestablished itself as a force to be reckoned with and even qualified for Champions League play.
Notable former managers of Fiorentina include Sven-Goran Eriksson, Giovanni Trapattoni, Fatih Terim, Roberto Manchini, Dino Zoff and Cesare Prandelli.
Fiorentina’s home stadium is the Stadio Artemio Franchi which seats 43,147 spectators.
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