A.C. Reggiana 1919

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Reggiana
Full name	Associazione Calcio Reggiana 1919 SRL
Nickname(s)	Teste quadre (Square heads), Granata (Maroons)
Founded	1919 & 2005
Ground	Stadio Giglio, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Capacity	29,546
Chairman	Vando Veroni
Manager	Alessandro Pane
League	Serie C2/B
2005-06	Serie C2/B, 9th
Home colours 　 Away colours

Not to be confused with Reggina Calcio, a Serie A team.

Associazione Calcio Reggiana 1919 is an Italian football club, based in Reggio Emilia, Emilia-Romagna. The club was founded in 1919 as A.C. Reggiana and refounded in July 2005 as Reggio Emilia F.C., but it was renamed A.C. Reggiana 1919 soon after the start of the 2005-06 season. Reggiana currently plays in Serie C2/B, having last been in Serie A in 1997. The team's color is dark red (Granata).

Some famous players played for Reggiana, including Felice Romano, Angelo Di Livio, Ruggiero Rizzitelli, Fabrizio Ravanelli, Luca Bucci, Claudio Taffarel, Paulo Futre, Stefano Torrisi, Francesco Antonioli, Igor Simutenkov, Angelo Adamo Gregucci, Sunday Oliseh, Filippo Galli, Alberigo Evani, Luigi Sartor, Marco Ballotta, Massimo Tonetto, Adolfo Valencia, Cristiano Zanetti and Obafemi Martins. Reggiana played in Italian First Division for many seasons in the 1920's; the club took part in Italian Serie A in 1993/94, 1994/95 and 1996/97. Best result is 13th place in 1993/94 Serie A championship. Most famous coach has been Carlo Ancelotti, who has been working for AC Milan since 2001. Reggiana played all matches in Mirabello Stadium until 1994; then they moved to a new and modern arena, called Stadio Giglio.

Reggiana numbers former EU commissioner and current Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi among its supporters.

Contents 1 Titles 2 Notable former coaches 3 Notable former players 4 External links

[edit] Titles

• Serie B Championship Winner: 1
• Seasons played in Serie A: 3
• Seasons played in Italian First Division: 5

[edit] Notable former coaches

• Carlo Ancelotti
• Bruno Giordano
• Luigi Del Grosso
• Mircea Lucescu
• Giuseppe Marchioro
• Francesco Oddo

[edit] Notable former players

Francesco Antonioli Luigi Apolloni Massimo Brambilla Giorgio Bresciani Luca Bucci Andrea Carnevale Francesco Cozza Luigi De Agostini Fernando De Napoli Angelo Di Livio Massimo Esposito Alberigo Evani Filippo Galli Angelo Gregucci Nicola Legrottaglie Stefano Nava

Michele Padovano Igor Protti Fabrizio Ravanelli Ruggiero Rizzitelli Felice Romano Luigi Sartor Andrea Silenzi Andrea Sordo Massimo Tonetto Stefano Torrisi Sandro Tovalieri Cristiano Zanetti Georges Grun Claudio Taffarel

Adolfo Valencia Franz Carr Catilina Aubameyang (youth player) Dietmar Beiersdorfer Anton Powolny Saidu Adeshina (youth player) Saidi Adeshokan (youth player) Isah Eliakwu (youth player) Stephen Makinwa (youth player) Obafemi Martins (youth player) Sunday Oliseh Dorin Mateut Ioan Sabau Paulo Futre Igor Simutenkov Johnny Ekström

[edit] External links

• (Italian) Official site

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