| Full name | Atletico Roma Football Club | ||
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| Founded | 1972 (as AS Lodigiani) 2004 (refounded as Cisco Lodigiani) 2005 (refounded as Cisco Roma) 2010 (refounded as Atletico Roma) |
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| Dissolved | 2011 | ||
| Ground | Stadio Flaminio, Rome, Italy (Capacity: 32,000) |
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| 2010-11 | Lega Pro Prima Divisione B 3rd | ||
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Atletico Roma Football Club was an Italian football club, based in Rome, Lazio. It was the third most popular team of the Italian capital city.
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The club was founded in 1972 as A.S. Lodigiani.[1]
A.S. Lodigiani was known for having one of the finest Italian youth systems, with players such as Luigi Apolloni, Valerio Fiori, Emiliano Moretti, Francesco Totti and Antonio Candreva among its former youth team footballers.
In 2003-04 Serie C2 it was bought by the family Tulli of Cisco, already owners of Cisco Calcio in Serie D (formerly called Cisco Tor Sapienza and Cisco Collatino) which becomes Lupa Frascati, the next season.
In 2004-05 Serie C2 Lodigiani was so renamed A.S. Cisco Lodigiani.
The team's colors were red and white.
In 2005, was founded A.S.D. Lodigiani Calcio, by some of the old club's directors, that becomes so the new Lodigiani, playing in the regional levels.[2]
In the season 2005-06 it was renamed A.S. Cisco Calcio Roma (referred to as simply Cisco Roma).
Cisco Roma played from 2005-06 to 2009-10 in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione (formerly called Serie C2), although it started the 2006-07 Serie C2 season with great ambitions of promotion, after signing former West Ham and Lazio star Paolo Di Canio: it finished 2nd in Serie C2/C, but lost to Reggiana in the promotion playoffs semifinals.
On 11 June 2009 it was bought by Mario and Davide Ciaccia which immediately relaunch the team that in fact at the end of the 2009-10 Lega Pro Seconda Divisione season, was promoted to Prima Divisione as play-off winners.
On 7 July 2010, the club changed its name to Atletico Roma F.C. and its colors to blue and white, to distance itself from Lodigiani's history and abandon a corporate name, as both Lodigiani and Cisco are firms based in Rome.
On July 18, 2011 it is not admitted by the Federal Council in Lega Pro Prima Divisione and excluded from professional football.[3]