Football club "Fiorentina" - the tradition of gentility

Football club "Fiorentina" - the team serving in the Italian Serie A, based in Florence. It formed in 1926. Home matches the team holds at stadium "Artemio Franchi", which seats on their stands more than 47 thousand spectators.

At the dawn of

After three seasons spent "Fiorentina" in the lower leagues of Italian championship, the club finally went up in Serie A. In order to fight on equal terms with the other participants in the Premier Division, the football club, "Fiorentina" has signed a contract with a stellar legionnaire Uruguayan Pedro Petrone . The team has demonstrated an interesting attacking football, but in the following season went for a fall in the class. Back to Serie A, "Fiorentina" failed in 1941, but the outbreak of war and the related financial problems for some time postponed golden age "violets".

The first Scudetto

In the 50-60-ies of the football club, "Fiorentina" kept a tight fight for the championship with the Italian football leaders. The long-awaited Scudetto has obeyed "Violet" in the 1955/1956 season, and a year later the team finished second, losing the first line of "Milan". Also, the club from Florence was the first among the Italian teams that have played in the Champions Cup final. The final battle, "violet" lost to Madrid "Real" with great Di Stefano at the point of attack. In the season 1960/1961 the players 'Squadra Viola "won the National Cup, as well as raised above his head the Cup Winners' Cup. In the following years the club still finished in Italy in the first six.

The modern history

Over the next twenty years the team won another championship and each new season once again fought for the Scudetto. In European competition a Florentine club still stopped the fight on the stage of the playoffs, and the highest achievement of "Fiorentina" is the final of the UEFA Cup, in which the "violets" have given way to Turin "Juventus". By the way, in the same season, the team was almost relegated from Serie A, to protect themselves from relegation only in the last round. 90 years of the last century for the "violets" were marked by the reign of the family Cecchi Gori. The team in turn invited stars of the European and world football, such as Roberto Baggio, Stefan Effenberg and, of course, Gabriel Batistuta. The latter became an icon in the "Artemio Franchi" and to this day remains the most significant figure in the history of FC Fiorentina. Coach Florentines, Claudio Ranieri, to create an efficient team, whose game was built around stellar Argentine striker. The team once again regained the lost ground, to continue performance under the leadership of Alberto Malesani. At the beginning of the century team waited serious difficulties related to corruption in Italian football. As a result, "violet" come a long way from the C2 series before returning to the elite division, and all this time, no matter what status is the Command, stands completely filled for each match loyal fans.

In the modern history of the club of his success is associated with a strong attacking a bunch of Mutu - Tony, as well as with the current coach, "Fiorentina" - Portuguese Paulo Sousa in which the "violets" show strong and powerful football as the national championship, and in the European competition .

Attributes of the football club, "Fiorentina"

As a prototype of the main football symbols "Fiorentina" family coat of arms was made by rulers of Florence 17-18 centuries, the Medici family with the application of an abbreviation of the club. Depicted in the center of a white lily - a symbol of the greatness and purity of the Venetian ladies. The lower part of the coat of arms painted in the color purple.

The main form of club - purple, including socks. Guest shape - white, including socks. These colors is considered to be aristocratic. Players Florentine club played in these colors since 1928, except in two seasons at the beginning of the new millennium, "Fiorentina" on the verge of bankruptcy.

FC "Fiorentina": the team and club legend

To date, the first team "Violet" by only 20% is made up of Italians, the rest - the legionnaires, mostly Hispanics. Along with this, the young pupils of the club Federico Bernardeschi and son of the legendary Enrico Chiesa - Federico Chiesa - potential candidates for the role of the main players in the national team of Italy. Already behind them closely watched in the European top clubs, so there will be nothing surprising if in 1-2 namesake of the season will be in the "Juventus", or in Madrid "Real".

Football club "Fiorentina" has always rightly considered as a source of manpower for the national team, as well as for other countries. At various times, the team colors defended by such stars of world scale, Gabriel Batistuta, Francesco Toldo, Rui Costa, Roberto Baggio, Angelo Di Livio, Luca Toni and others.