Il Capitano
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Sponsors: Mazda, Diadora
AS Roma History
A.S. Roma (Associazione Sportiva Roma) is a Italian football club. Nicknamed the giallorossi, it plays in Serie A. Roma's home uniforms are dark red shirts with dark yellow borders, white shorts and black socks.
The emblem is the Capitoline she-wolf lactating twins, symbol of Rome, superimposed a bipartite golden-yellow over red shield; official colors are the same as those of Rome, red for imperial dignity, gold for the Christian God.
The current stadium is the 82,656 seater Stadio Olimpico, which is shared with S.S. Lazio. The two teams compete against one another each year in the Rome derby, a major and emotional event in Italian football.
A.S. Roma was founded in July 1927, when Rome already had three teams in the Italian football league - Alba, Fortitudo and Lazio. The Fascist regime's idea at the time was to merge all the Rome clubs into one which the many newly-arrived immigrants could identify with, Lazio considered very much a patrician club of the Roman social elite, and strong enough to challenge the northerners. Lazio refused even a meeting but Alba, Pro Roma, Fortitudo and Roman attended and Roma was formed. Roma was named after the city and with the red and yellow strip of the Roman club. The initial stadium was Motovelodromo Appio. They took part in their first league in the 1929-30 season.
A.S. Roma won their first scudetto in the 1941-42 season. The second was won in the 1982-83 season and the third in 2000-01. They were runners-up in 1930-31, 1935-36, 1980-81, 1983-84, 1985-86, 2001-02 and 2003-04. They were relegated only once, at the end of the 1950-51 season.
The club has won the Coppa Italia seven times: 1963-64, 1968-69, 1979-80, 1980-81, 1983-84, 1985-86, and 1990-91, and the UEFA Cup (Fairs Cup) once in 1960-61, defeating Birmingham City. In 1984, A.S. Roma lost the final match of the European Cup, played in Rome, against Liverpool F.C., after a penalty shootout.
AS Roma Honours, Trophies & Awards
* Italian League Champions (Scudetti): 3
1941-42, 1982-83, 2000-01
* Italian Cup: 7
1963-64, 1968-69, 1979-80, 1980-81, 1983-84, 1985-86, 1990-91
* Italian SuperCup: 1
2000-01
* UEFA Cup: 1
1960-61
* Anglo-Italian Cup: 1
1971-72
Current Roster:
LUCIANO SPALLETTI
1 GIANLUCA CURCI
12 CARLO ZOTTI
22 IVAN PELIZZOLI
33 PIETRO PIPOLO
2 CHRISTIAN PANUCCI
3 LUIS ABEL XAVIER
5 PHILIPPE MEXES
8 MATTEO FERRARI
13 CRISTIAN CHIVU
19 GIUSEPPE SCURTO
25 LEANDRO DAMIAN CUFRE'
27 ANDREA BRIOTTI
31 TRAIANOS DELLAS
SAMUEL KUFFOUR
4 DANIELE DE ROSSI
15 OLIVIER DACOURT
17 DAMIANO TOMMASI
20 SIMONE PERROTTA
23 ALBERTO AQUILANI
30 MANCINI Alessandro Faiolhe Amantino
RODRIGO TADDEI
9 VINCENZO MONTELLA
10 FRANCESCO TOTTI
11 DANIELE CORVIA
18 ANTONIO CASSANO
26 ALESSIO CERCI
28 VALERIO VIRGA
SHABANI NONDA