Salernitana

Full name	Salernitana Calcio 1919 SpA
Nickname(s)	Granata (Dark-Reds), Cavallucci marini (Seahorses)
Founded	1919
Ground	Stadio Arechi, Salerno, Italy (Capacity: 37,245[1])
Chairman	Antonio Lombardi
Manager	Fabio Brini
League	Serie B
2008–09	Serie B, 14th
Home colours Away colours

Salernitana Calcio 1919, commonly referred to as simply Salernitana, is an Italian professional football club from Salerno, Campania. Founded in 1919, Salernitana have spent the vast majority of their history bouncing between the Serie B and Serie C levels of Italian football. The club will compete in Serie B for the 2009–10 season. On April 27, 2008 they mathematically won the league title of Serie C1, thus ensuring a place in Serie B for the 2008–09 season.^[2]

In their earliest years, Salernitana competed in the Italian Football Championship when it was competed on a regional basis, they played at this level for four seasons during the 1920s. Since that time the club returned to the top level of Italian football twice; they played in Serie A during 1947–48 and 1998–99.

Salernitana, who wear an all-maroon kit, have had several name changes since they first appeared in 1919; one was after a merger with Audax Salerno. The most recent change was in 2005, when the club went bankrupt but were refounded by Antonio Lombardi. However, they were forced to give up their Salernitana Sport name for the present one.

[edit] History

Unione Sportiva Salernitana was founded on 19 June 1919 by Adalgiso Onesti,^[3] who initiated the merger of an older club using the same name; which itself was founded in 1911 by a merger of four local clubs; and Foot-Ball Club Salerno.^[4]

The club was known as Società Sportiva Salernitanaudax for a time during the 1920s. It can be argued that Salernitana's best period as a club was 1997-1999. In the 1997-98 season, Salernitana topped Serie B and gained their second promotion to Serie A (first was in 1947-48). A young Marco Di Vaio led the scoring charts with 21 goals. In the 1998-99 season, their first in Serie A after 50 years, Salernitana fought hard and were led by Cameroonian international Rigobert Song and Salvatore Fresi in defense, a young Gennaro Gattuso in midfield, and Marco Di Vaio and David Di Michele leading the attack. They recorded surprise wins against Inter, Juventus, Roma and Lazio. Unfortunately, they finished 1 point shy of salvation and were relegated.

Since then, the club did not manage to return back to the top flight, and was excluded by Serie B in 2005. A new club, who started back from Serie C1, was then established. In 2008, Salernitana finally returned back to Serie B as Serie C1/B champions.

[edit] Current squad

As of 25 October 2009.

No. Position Player 1 GK Rino Iuliano 2 DF Georgios Kyriazis 4 MF Andrea Tricarico 5 DF Luca Fusco 6 DF Mariano Stendardo (on loan from Genoa) 7 MF Gianluca Galasso (on loan from Bari) 8 MF Manolo Pestrin 9 FW Emanuele Ferraro 10 MF Roberto Merino 11 MF Giuseppe Statella (on loan from Bari) 13 GK Piero Robertiello 14 DF Salvatore Russo 16 GK Ciro Polito 17 MF Danilo Soddimo (on loan from Sampdoria) 18 FW Francesco Caputo (on loan from Bari) 20 MF Vincenzo Pepe 21 DF Maurizio Peccarisi

No. Position Player 23 DF Enrico Pepe 24 MF Saverio Cartone 25 MF Abderrazzak Jadid 28 MF Davide Carcuro 29 MF Vincenzo Fusco 31 FW Dino Fava Passaro 33 DF Francesco Agresta 34 DF Alessandro Bastrini (on loan from Sampdoria) 39 MF Evans Soligo 44 MF Francesco Montervino 77 MF Francesco Cozza 80 FW Francesco Millesi 82 MF Luca Orlando 84 DF Filipe Machado 88 DF Luca Brunetti 90 FW Elio Siano

[edit] Notable players

[edit] Presidential history

Below is the complete presidential history of Salernitana, from when Adalgiso Onesti was first in place at the club in 1919, until the present day.^[5]

[edit] Managerial history

See also Cat:Salernitana Calcio 1919 managers.

Salernitana have had many managers and trainers running the team during their history, here is a chronological list of them from 1919 onwards.^[5]

Name Nationality Years Vincenzo Giordano 1919 Raffaele Schiavone 1919–1921 Toledo 1921–1922 Ciminari 1922–1923 Alfonso Guasco 1923–1924 Willy Kargus 1924–1925 Bellone 1925 Venturini 1927–1928 Barone 1928 Finizio 1928–1929 Apicella 1929 Géza Kertész 1929–1931 Luigi Leone 1931–1932 Mora 1932 Ivo Fiorentini 1932–1933 Walter Colombati 1933–1934 Imre Schoffer 1934–1935 Buratti 1935 Armand Halmos 1935–1936 Ferenc Hirzer 1936–1938 Francesco Hansel 1938–1939 Attila Sallustro 1939 Béla Karoly 1939–1940 Ferenc Hirzer 1940–1941 Géza Kertész 1941 Antonio Valese 1941 Giuseppe Viani 1941–1943 Milite 1944 Antonio Valese 1944–1945 Vittorio Mosele 1945 Ferenc Hirzer 1945 Giuseppe Viani 1945–1947 Pietro Piselli 1948–1950 Arnaldo Sentimenti 1950 Walter Crociani 1950–1951 Rodolphe Hiden 1951–1952 Carlo Ceresoli 1952–1953 Enrico Carpitelli 1953–1955 Saracino 1955 Antonio Valese 1955–1956 Saracino 1956 Paolo Todeschini 1956–1957 Enrico Carpitelli 1957 Giovanni Varglien 1957–1958 Nicolò Nicolosi 1958–1959 Vittorio Mosele 1959 István Mike Mayer 1959 Pietro Piselli 1959–1960 Ettore Puricelli 1960–1961 Di Gennaro 1961–1962 Gyula Zsengellér 1962 Piero Pasinati 1962–1963 Rodolphe Hiden 1964 Riccardo Carapellese 1964–1965 Rodolphe Hiden 1965 Rosati 1965–1966 Oscar Montez 1967 Guido Settembrino 1967–1969 Pietro Magni 1969 Sergio Piacentini 1969–1970 Edi Gratton 1970 Rosati 1970–1971 Giancarlo Vitali 1971–1972 Giunchi 1963–1964 Nicola Chiricallo 1972–1973 Franco Viviani 1973–1974 Ettore Recagni 1974–1975 Giacomo Losi 1975 Guido Settembrino 1975 Massimo Giacomini 1975–1976 Ottavio Bugatti 1976 Carlo Regalia 1976–1977 Lucio Muiesan 1977 Carlo Facchin 1977 Enea Masiero 1977–1978 Lucio Muiesan 1978 Rosati 1978–1979 Franco Viviani 1979–1980 Antonio Giammarinaro 1980 Gigante 1980 Lamberto Leonardi 1980–1981 Antonio Giammarinaro 1981–1982 Romano Mattè 1982 Francisco Ramón Lojacono 1982–1983 Marino Perani 1983 Mario Facco 1983–1984 Gian Piero Ghio 1984–1986 Giorgio Sereni 1986 Carmelo Russo 1986–1987 Claudio Tobia 1987–1988 Roberto Clagluna 1988 Carlo Soldo 1988 Giancarlo Pasinato 1988–1989 Lamberto Leonardi 1989 Giancarlo Ansaloni 1989–1991 Gianni Simonelli 1991–1992 Tarcisio Burgnich 1992 Giuliano Sonzogni 1992–1993 Delio Rossi 1993–1995 Franco Colomba 1995–1997 Franco Varrella 1997 Delio Rossi 1997–1999 Francesco Oddo 1999 Adriano Cadregari 1999 Luigi Cagni 1999–2000 Adriano Cadregari 2000 Francesco Oddo 2000–2001 Nedo Sonetti 2001 Zdeněk Zeman 2001–2003 Franco Varrella 2003 Stefano Pioli 2003–2004 Aldo Ammazzalorso 2004–2005 Angelo Gregucci 2005 Maurizio Costantini 2005–2006 Stefano Cuoghi 2006 Raffaele Novelli 2006–2006 Gianfranco Bellotto 2007 Andrea Agostinelli 2007–2008 Fabio Brini 2008– Bortolo Mutti 2008– Fabrizio Castori 2008–2009 Fabio Brini 2009–present

[edit] Colours, badge and nicknames

Salernitana's original kit.

Salernitana originally wore light blue and white striped shirts, known in Italy as biancocelesti.^[3] The blue on the shirt was chosen to represent the sea, Salerno the city lies right next to the Gulf of Salerno and has a long tradition as a porting city. During the 1940s the club changed to their current and most recognised maroon coloured shirts, which has gained them the nickname granata in their homeland.

[edit] Honours

Serie B:

• Winners (2): 1947–48; 1997–98

Serie C / Serie C1:

• Winners (2): 1937–38; 1965–66; 2007–08
• Runners-up (2): 1989–90; 1993–94

Coppa Italia Serie C:

• Runners-up (1): 1980

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official website (Italian)