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SocietÃ* Sportiva Lazio, commonly referred to SS Lazio or simply Lazio, is an Italian professional sports club most noted for its football section, founded in 1900 and based in Rome. Lazio participate in thirty-seven sports disciplines in total, more than any other sports association in Europe.[1]
Lazio, who play in sky blue shirts with white shorts, have won Serie A twice, first in 1973–74 and then again in 1999–00. As well as winning four Coppa Italia trophies, Lazio have earned silverware on the European stage, winning the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup and UEFA Super Cup both in 1999. The club has spent most of their history in the top tier in Italian football, where they are currently playing in the 2007–08 season.
Home games are played at the Stadio Olimpico, a stadium they share with rivals AS Roma. With a capacity of over 82,000 it is the second largest of its kind in Italy; only the San Siro is bigger.
2000 to present - Decline and revival
Lazio began the decade brightly by winning the Italian Super Cup and finishing in 3rd place in the league - but the departure of Sven Goran Eriksson accelerated the decline of the club. With money running out, or wasted on transfer flops like Gaizka Mendieta for £28million, Lazio missed the all-important qualification for the UEFA Champions League in the 2001/2002 season, finishing in a disappointing 6th place.
A financial scandal involving Cragnotti and his food products multinational Cirio forced him to leave the club in 2002, and Lazio was controlled until 2004 by caretaker financial managers and a bank pool. This forced the club to sell their star players & even the "symbol" of the club - club captain Nesta - in quick succession. Lazio was subsequently sold to entrepreneur Claudio Lotito, who is the current majority share owner.
That summer, 36-year old former Lazio star Paolo Di Canio accepted to join the club he supported as a youth, taking a 75 per cent paycut. The 2005-2006 season saw Lazio lose veterans such as Fernando Couto, Paolo Negro and Giuliano Giannichedda who were let go by the club, among other things, to lower its salary expenditure. The 2005-2006 season under the coaching of Delio Rossi saw the club compete beyond all expectations with a team which blends remaining veterans such as Angelo Peruzzi and midfield fan favourites Fabio Liverani and Ousmane Dabo with an infusion of motivated players with lower salary demands. The policy had proven successful as the club qualified for the 2006-07 UEFA Cup.
On July 14, it was announced that they had been relegated to Serie B with a 7 point penalty for their involvement in match-fixing scandal. The club's appeal was successful and in a judgment released on July 25, Lazio's penalty was reduced to an 11 point deduction in the following Serie A season (subsequently further reduced to 3 points) and a 30 point deduction in the previous Serie A season, resulting in the loss of their qualification to the following UEFA Cup.
Despite a later-reduced points deduction, Lazio achieved a 3rd place finish in the 2006/2007, just falling short of breaking the club record for games won in succession - the current squad racked up 8 wins in a row, compared to the 2000 Scudetto winning squad who set the record of 9.
Goalkeepers:
Marco
BALLOTTA
Tommaso
BERNI
Fernando
MUSLERA
Defense
Sanchez Emilson
CRIBARI
Lorenzo
DE SILVESTRI
Mobido
DIAKITE'
Sebastiano
SIVIGLIA
Guglielmo
STENDARDO
Luciano
ZAURI
Lionel
SCALONI
Aleksandar
KOLAROV
Ivan
ARTIPOLI
Simone
SANNIBALE
Midfield
Valon
BEHRAMI
Roberto
BARONIO
Fabio
FIRMANI
Cristian
LEDESMA
Christian Jose'
MANFREDINI SISOSTRI
Stefano
MAURI
Gaby
MUDINGAYI
Massimo
MUTARELLI
Mourad
MEGHNI
Strikers
Stephen Ayodele
MAKINWA
Goran
PANDEV
Tommaso
ROCCHI
Igli
TARE
Simone
DEL NERO
Fabio
VIGNAROLI
Club Information:
Year Founded: 1900
Stadium: Stadio Olimpico
Capacity: 82,000
Training Facilities: Top training facilities
Youth Facilities: Good Youth Facilities + Youth Academy
Media Prediction: 4th
Squad Average Age: 25
Squad Personality: Ambitious
Captain: Luciano Zauri
Continental Competition:European Champions Cup
Just starting a game with them and looking to ring the changes, would like to bring Piatti to play just behind pandev and a new striker (refuse to pay rocchi £35,000 per week).
Originally posted by hmw2:
Anyone else managing Lazio?
Just starting a game with them and looking to ring the changes, would like to bring Piatti to play just behind pandev and a new striker (refuse to pay rocchi £35,000 per week).
Hows other peoples Lazio adventures going?
Rochhi is really class though.. you might wanna reconsider giving him that wage.
lazio has 2 nice young defenders...
Tuiu something with leading seria a potential and
another one with good serie a potential... both in their youth squad.
Whats his goal scoring record like? I was going to look to get a target man in to play alongside Pandev.
Tuia has already been promoted to my first team, hes good enough at 16 to get a few run outs whilst getting him up to speed. De Silvstri looks like he will become a worldclass full back. any suggestions for the left wing? dont feel del nero is up to the job...
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