A.C. ChievoVerona

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Chievo
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Full name Associazione Calcio
ChievoVerona SrL
Nickname(s) Mussi Volanti ("Flying Donkeys"),
Ceo ("Chievo")
Founded 1929
Ground Stadio Marcantonio Bentegodi,
Verona, Italy
Capacity 42,160
Chairman Italy Luca Campedelli
Manager Italy Luigi Del Neri
League Serie A
2005-06 Serie A, 7th (4th)
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Associazione Calcio ChievoVerona is an Italian football club named after a minor suburb of Verona, Veneto, and owned by Paluani, a cake company and the inspiration for their original name, Paluani Chievo.

The club's historic nickname is gialloblu (from the club colors of yellow and blue), but is more often referred to today as the Mussi Volanti (Flying Donkeys in Verona dialect of Venetian). Local supporters often call the club simply Ceo, which is Veronese for Chievo. The "Flying Donkeys" nickname was originally a derogatory term from a playful match's chorus applied by fans from crosstown rivals Hellas Verona, who claimed Chievo had stolen Hellas' colors, name, and stadium. Hellas fans also said that donkeys would fly before Chievo made it to Serie A. However, Chievo fans have now largely embraced the nickname as a badge of honor. Chievo's official Web site shows an image of a flying donkey next to the club's crest, and the club's online shop sells a stuffed flying donkey doll.

The club's crest represents Cangrande I della Scala (an ancient seignor from Verona).

The club shares its stadium with Hellas which is the 42,160 seater Marcantonio Bentegodi stadium.

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[edit] History

[edit] Early years

The team was founded in 1929 by a small number of football fans from the small borough of Chievo, a Verona neighbourhood. Initially the club was not officially affiliated to the Italian Football Federation, but played under the denomination "Ond Chievo" imposed by the fascist regime several amateur tournament and friendly matches. The formal debut in an official league is dated November 8, 1931. The team colours at the time were blue and white. However, Chievo disbanded in 1936 because of economic woes, and the team returned to play in 1948 after World War II, being registered in the regional league of "Seconda Divisione" (Second Division). In 1957 the team moved to the "Carlantonio Bottagisio" parish field, where Chievo played until 1986. In 1959, after the restructuring of the football leagues, Chievo was admitted to play the "Seconda Categoria" (Second Category), a regional league placed next-to-last in the Italian football pyramid. That year, Chievo changed its denomination to "Cardi Chievo", after the new sponsor, and was quickly promoted to the "Prima Categoria", which it left in 1962 after having experienced its first (and only, as of today) relegation ever.

[edit] A series of promotions

In 1964, Luigi Campedelli, a businessman and owner of the Paluani company, is named new Chievo chairman. Under Campedelli's presidency, Chievo climbed the entire Italian pyramid, reaching the Serie D after the 1974/1975 season. Under the name "Paluani Chievo", the team is promoted to Serie C2 in 1986. After this promotion, Chievo was forced to move to the Stadio Marcantonio Bentegodi, the main venue in Verona; another promotion, to Serie C1, then arrived in 1989. In 1990, the team finally changed its name to the current one, "A.C. ChievoVerona".

In 1992, President Luigi Campedelli, who returned at the helm of the club two years before, died of a heart attack, and his son Luca Campedelli, aged just 23, became the new chairman. Luca Campedelli, the youngest chairman of all Italian professional football clubs, promoted Giovanni Sartori as Director of Football and named Alberto Malesani the new head coach. Under Malesani, the team astonishingly won the Serie C1 and was promoted to Serie B, where city rival Hellas Verona was playing at the time. In 1997, after Malesani signed for Fiorentina, Silvio Baldini was appointed new head coach. The following season, with Domenico Caso as new coach, saw the first dismissal ever in the presidency of Luca Campedelli, with Caso fired and replaced with Lorenzo Balestro.

In 2000/2001, Luigi Del Neri was signed as new coach, and led Chievo to a historic promotion to Serie A, the first-ever in the team's history, ending its Serie B run in third-place.

[edit] Serie A times

[edit] 2001-02

In its 2001/2002 Serie A debut, the small and unconsidered Chievo quickly became the most astonishing team in the league, playing the most spectacular and entertaining football and even leading the top division for six weeks and ending the season with a fifth place, allowing Chievo to play in the UEFA Cup.

[edit] 2002-03 & 2003-04

In 2002/2003, Chievo debuted at the European level and was eliminated in the first round against Red Star Belgrade. The team finished the Serie A season in seventh place, again proving itself one of the most valued Serie A teams. The 2003/2004 season, the last with Del Neri at the helm, saw Chievo ending in ninth place.

[edit] 2004-05

The 2004/2005 season is remembered as one of the toughest ever in Chievo's history. Mario Beretta, a Serie A novice from Ternana, was named new coach: after a good start which brought Chievo to a third place behind Juventus and AC Milan, the team slowly lost positions in the Serie A table. Three matches before the end of the league, Chievo was third from last, a position which would relegate it to Serie B. Beretta was thus fired and Maurizio D'Angelo, a former Chievo player, was appointed to replace him. Two wins and a tie during the three remaining matches saved Chievo.

[edit] 2005-06

In 2005/2006, Giuseppe Pillon of Treviso FBC was appointed as new coach. The team experienced a throwback to the successful Del Neri era, both in style of play and results, and Chievo consequently gained a place in the next UEFA Cup, ending the season in a solid seventh place. However, because of the football scandal involving several top-class teams, all placed before Chievo in the 2005/2006 season, the Flying Donkeys had a chance of playing the next Champions League preliminary phase.

[edit] 2006-07

On July 14, 2006, the verdict in the scandal was made public. Juventus, AC Milan and Fiorentina, all qualified for the 2006-07 Champions League, and Lazio, originally inscribed for the 2006-07 UEFA Cup, were all banned from UEFA competition for the 2006/07 season, although AC Milan were allowed to enter the Champions League after their appeal to FIGC. Chievo took up a place in the third qualifying stage of the competition along with AC Milan and faced Bulgarian Levski Sofia. Chievo lost the first leg 2-0 in Sofia and managed a 2-2 home draw on the second leg. Levski advanced to the Champions League group stage on a 4-2 aggregate score, and Chievo was knocked out. As a Champions League third round qualifying loser, Chievo was placed in the UEFA Cup final qualifying round. On August 25, 2006 Chievo was drawn to face Portuguese Braga. The first leg, played on September 14 in Braga, ended in a shock 2-0 win for the Portuguese side. The return match, played on September 28 in Verona, was won by Chievo 2-1. However, the Italian side lost 3-2 on aggregate and was knocked out of any further European competitions.

On October 16, 2006, following a 1-0 defeat against Torino F.C., head coach Giuseppe Pillon was fired, and replaced by Luigi Del Neri, one of the symbols of the miracle Chievo who led the club to Serie A in 2002.

[edit] Current squad

[edit] First Team Squad

As of 17:00 GMT, August 31, 2006 [2]

No. Position Player
1 Italy GK Vincenzo Sicignano
2 Italy MF Yuri Breviario
4 Italy DF Andrea Mantovani
5 Brazil MF Luciano
7 Italy MF Franco Semioli
8 Italy MF Federico Giunti
9 Italy FW Salvatore Bruno
10 Italy MF Andrea Zanchetta
14 Italy MF Stefano Garzon
15 Nigeria FW Victor Nsofor Obinna
16 Italy MF Mattia Marchesetti
17 Italy DF Lorenzo D'Anna (captain)
18 Italy GK Lorenzo Squizzi
19 Italy DF Marco Malagò
20 Italy MF Michele Marcolini
No. Position Player
21 Italy MF Paolo Sammarco (on loan from AC Milan)
22 Italy DF Cesare Rickler
23 Italy DF Salvatore Lanna (vice captain)
24 Italy FW Federico Cossato
26 Italy DF Giuseppe Scurto
27 Italy DF Fabio Moro
29 Italy DF Davide Mandelli
31 Italy FW Sergio Pellissier
33 Italy MF Matteo Brighi (on loan from Roma)
40 Italy GK Alessio Zaninelli [1]
47 Italy DF Giovanni Marchese
55 Poland MF Kamil Kosowski (on loan from Kaiserslautern)
80 Italy GK Mattia Passarini
90 Italy FW Simone Tiribocchi
99 Italy FW Denis Godeas

For recent transfers, see the "Transfer Deals" section of 2006-07 in Italian football or the list of Serie A transfers 2006-07.

Technical staff

[edit] Players out on loan

Italy GK Enrico Alfonso (on loan to Pizzighettone)
Italy GK Tommaso Chiecchi (on loan to Modena)
Italy DF Francesco Carbone (on loan to Frosinone)
Italy DF Stefano Oliveri (co-ownership with Pescara)
Italy DF Emanuele Pesaresi (on loan to Triestina)
Italy MF Filippo Agomeri Antonelli (on loan to Pescara)
Italy MF Simone Bentivoglio (co-ownership with Juventus, on loan to Modena)
Italy MF Alfredo Cariello (co-ownership with Crotone)
Italy MF Emiliano Landolina (co-ownership with Roma, on loan to Prato)
Italy MF Andrea Mengoni (on loan to Frosinone)
Brazil FW Diego Silva Reis (on loan to Cremonese)
Italy   Federico Arduini (on loan to Mantova)

[edit] Retired numbers

[edit] Notable former players

[edit] Footnotes

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