A.C. Pistoiese

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Pistoiese
Full name	Associazione Calcio Pistoiese SpA
Nickname(s)	Arancioni (Orange)
Founded	1921
Ground	Stadio Marcello Melani, Pistoia, Italy (Capacity 13,195)
Chairman	Massimiliano Braccialini
Manager	Francesco D'Arrigo
League	Serie C1/B
2007-08	Serie C1/B, 14th
Home colours 　 Away colours

Associazione Calcio Pistoiese is an Italian football club, based in Pistoia, Tuscany. The club was founded in 1921 and refounded in 1988. Pistoiese currently plays in Serie C1, having last been in Serie A in 1981. The team's colors are orange and blue.

The singer-songwriter Francesco Guccini is probably the most famous tifoso of Pistoiese in Italy.

Contents 1 History 2 Notable former players 2.1 Squad 3 Notable former managers 4 External links

[edit] History

Pistoiese achieved prominence by rising to Serie B in the late 1970s with promotion to Serie A following in 1980. With veterans like Marcello Lippi and Mario Frustalupi and promising young talents such as Paolo Benedetti, Pistoiese made a reasonable start to Serie A life and were as high as 6th after a win at Fiorentina at Round 13. But a dismal freefall resulted in last place in relegation, and the club have not recovered since apart from spells in Serie B in 1995-96 and 1999-2002.

In the 2005/06 Serie C1/B campaign, Pistoiese battled against relegation from Serie C1 with goals proving hard to come by, yet having one of the best defensive records in the division. A good season ending brought the team to a good 9th place in Group A, but just three points ahead the relegation playouts. She finished 14th in Group B in 2007-2008 season and played relegation play-off against Sangiovannese. She won by 4-0 aggregate and remained in Serie C1.

[edit] Notable former players

• Francesco Baiano
• Mauro Bellugi
• Paolo Benedetti
• Sergio Borgo
• Sergio Brio
• Vito Chimenti
• Mario Frustalupi
• Francesco Guidolin
• Marcello Lippi
• Lido Vieri

[edit] Squad

No. Position Player GK Tommaso Allegri GK Simone Aresti GK Guido Lippi GK Gianmatteo Mareggini DF Marco Briganti DF Dario Cacelli DF Francesco Caco DF Nicola Calabro DF Luigi Di Simone DF Andrea Pisani DF Emanuele Venturelli MF Tommaso Bellazzini MF Michele Boldrini MF Filippo Breschi

No. Position Player MF Francesco Cardamone MF Alfredo Femiano MF Gabriele Galardini MF Alessandro Gambadori MF Alberto Genova MF Simone Guerri MF Michele Lanzillotta MF Daniel Maa Boumsong MF Federico Mennini FW Gianmarco Baldassarre FW Giorgio Biancospino FW Andrea Cocco FW Simone Motta FW Alessandro Ciarrocchi

[edit] Notable former managers

• Edmondo Fabbri
• Marcello Lippi

[edit] External links

• Official site

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