Udinese Calcio
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| Full name | Udinese Calcio SpA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | Bianconeri ("White-blacks"), Zebrette ("little zebras") |
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| Founded | 1896 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Stadio Friuli, Udine, Italy |
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| Capacity | 41,652 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chairman |  Franco Soldati |
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| Head Coach | Alberto Malesani |
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| League | Serie A | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2005-06 | Serie A, 13th (11th) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Udinese Calcio S.p.A (in short Udinese) is an Italian football club. Based in the town of Udine (Friuli-Venezia Giulia region, northern Italy), the club currently (2007) plays in Serie A. The team home kit is black and white quartered shirt, black shorts, and white socks. The club plays in the Stadio Friuli, which can seat 41,652. It has a good number of fans in Friuli and surrounding areas, and it is sometimes seen as the best symbol of Friulian pride.
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[edit] History
The club was founded in 1896 as part of the Società Udinese di Ginnastica e Scherma. In its very first season, the club won a regional tournament organised by the National Federation of Gymnastics (FGNI). This is considered by some the first national Italian football title.
The club played in the regional leagues until 1929 when it joined Serie B. Never outstandingly successful, the club was quickly relegated and did not return to that division until 1939. Promotion to the top division was first achieved in 1950, and a final second place was reached in 1955, but the club was relegated in that same year, following a nine point deduction for irregularities; the club bounced back the next season.
The club was relegated in 1961-62 and fell all the way to Serie C by 1964. The club remained in C for fourteen seasons before returning to B, and then reaching A in 1979. The club stayed in A until 1987 and then moved between the top two divisions for a time before re-establishing themselves in A from 1995, with the club's second highest finish after 1955 coming in 1997-98 when they were third.
The club has never had success at the top level or in European competition. They have been Serie B champions twice (1955-56 and 1978-79), Serie C champions three times (1938-39, 1948-49, and 1977-78), they won the Anglo-Italian Cup once (1978), the Mitropa Cup once (1980) and the UEFA Intertoto Cup once (2000).
At the end of 2004-2005 season, the club gained the fourth position in the Italian league, and subsequently qualified for the UEFA Champions League for the first time in its history, however not achieving qualification from the group stage.
[edit] Current first team squad
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[edit] Out on loan
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MF | Roman Eremenko (at Siena) |
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MF | Vargas Villalba (at Treviso) |
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DF | Michele Rinaldi (at Parma) | |
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MF | Flavio Lazzari (at Modena F.C.) | |
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MF | Michele Pazienza (at ACF Fiorentina) | |
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FW | Zlatan Muslimović (at Parma F.C.) | |
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GK | Samir Handanović (at Rimini Calcio F.C.) | |
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MF | Alessandro Moro (co-ownership at Treviso) | |
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FW | Alexis Sanchez (at Colo-Colo) |
[edit] Famous players
- Beniamino Abate
Márcio Amoroso
Stephen Appiah
Abel Balbo
Gerónimo Barbadillo- Daniel Bertoni
Oliver Bierhoff- Marco Branca
- Franco Causio
- Morgan De Sanctis
- David Di Michele
- Edinho
- Stefano Fiore
Ricardo Gallego- Claudio Garella
- Giuliano Giannichedda
- Asamoah Gyan
Hazem Emam
Thomas Helveg- Vincenzo Iaquinta
Marek Jankulovski- Martin Jørgensen
- Paolino Pulici
- David Pizarro
- Roberto Nestor Sensini
Johan Walem- Zico
[edit] Famous coaches
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Official website (Italian)
- Friulani Seguito - Udinese Fansite (Italian)
- Udinese statistics (English)
