Brescia Calcio
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| Full name | Brescia Calcio SpA |
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| Nickname(s) | Rondinelle (Little Swallows), Biancoazzurri (White-blues), Leonessa (Lioness) |
| Founded | 1911 |
| Ground | Stadio Mario Rigamonti, Brescia, Italy (Capacity 26,865) |
| Chairman | Image:Flag of Italy.svg Luigi Corioni |
| Manager | Image:Flag of Italy.svg Serse Cosmi |
| League | Serie B |
| 2006-07 | Serie B, 6th |
Brescia Calcio is a football club based in Brescia, Lombardy. The club was formed in 1911 and currently plays in the Italian Serie B, having spent a large part of recent years bouncing between Serie A and the second division.
The team's colors are blue and white. Its stadium is the 27,547 seater Stadio Mario Rigamonti.
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[edit] History
The team was founded in 1911 as Brescia Football Club, joining the Terza Categoria division the same year. In 1912 Brescia promoted to Serie A for its first time ever, and played in Serie A for six of the seven following seasons. Successively, the club played among the two top divisions until 1982, when Brescia was relegated to Serie C1. The club then returned to Serie B in 1985.
Brescia Calcio won the Anglo-Italian Cup in 1994, the biggest notable achievement in their entire history to date. However, Brescia actually came to the footballing forefront only in 2000, when the previously unfancied club signed former FIFA World Player of the Year Roberto Baggio, who led Brescia to a surprising seventh place in 2000/2001 Serie A, the best result during its time in Serie A, thus qualifying for the UEFA Intertoto Cup. Successively, Brescia reached the Intertoto Cup finals, then lost to Paris Saint-Germain. Baggio spent four years at Brescia before retiring in 2004 and during those historic four years, Brescia became widely known as "Baggio's Brescia". During Baggio's four year spell with Brescia, Brescia recorded their best ever run of staying in Serie A. However, in the very next season that followed Baggio's retirement (2004/2005), Brescia were relegated from Serie A on the last day, finishing a lowly 19th.
Former Spanish captain Josep Guardiola, Italy's national team striker Luca Toni, and current AC Milan star Andrea Pirlo (born in Brescia) have also spent time in Brescia.
[edit] Current first team squad
As of July 18, 2007[1]
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[edit] Famous players
- Image:Flag of Italy.svg Andrea Pirlo
- Image:Flag of Germany.svg Albert Brülls
- Image:Flag of Switzerland.svg Johan Vonlanthen
- Image:Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Gilbert Bodart
- Image:Flag of Italy.svg Daniele Adani
- Image:Flag of Slovakia.svg Marek Hamšík
- Image:Flag of Ghana.svg Stephen Appiah
- Image:Flag of Italy.svg Roberto Baggio
- Image:Flag of Brazil.svg Branco (real name Claudio Ibrahim Vaz Leal)
- Image:Flag of Italy.svg Eugenio Corini
- Image:Flag of Italy.svg Marco Delvecchio
- Image:Flag of Italy.svg Luigi Di Biagio
- Image:Flag of Italy.svg Cristiano Doni
- Image:Flag of Costa Rica.svg Gilberto Martínez
- Image:Flag of Spain.svg Josep Guardiola
- Image:Flag of Romania.svg Gheorghe Hagi
- Image:Flag of Romania.svg Dorin Mateut
- Image:Flag of Romania.svg Florin Raducioiu
- Image:Flag of Romania.svg Ioan Sabău
- Image:Flag of Poland.svg Marek Koźmiński
- Image:Flag of Italy.svg Luca Toni
- Image:Flag of Italy.svg Alessandro Altobelli
- Image:Flag of Italy.svg Evaristo Beccalossi
- Image:Flag of Italy.svg Dario Hubner
- Image:Flag of Austria.svg Markus Schopp
[edit] Retired numbers
- 10 Image:Flag of Italy.svg Roberto Baggio, deep-lying forward, 2000-2004
- 13 Image:Flag of Italy.svg Vittorio Mero, defender, 1998-2001, 2002
[edit] Seasons
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[edit] References
- ^ LA ROSA - Prima squadra (Italian). Brescia Calcio. Retrieved on 2007-07-18.
[edit] External links
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