U.C. Sampdoria

Sampdoria Genoa ( Unione Calcio Sampdoria SpA officially ) is a football club from the Italian city of Genoa, who plays in the Italian League, Serie A.

Their home games wearing the Sampdoria ( in Italian it is called " la Sampdoria ", ie uses a feminine article before the name of the club ) at the Stadio Luigi Ferraris, which the club shares with local rivals Genoa.

  • 5.1 Goalkeeper
  • 5.2 Defense
  • 5.3 midfielder
  • 5.4 Forward

History

The Sampdoria was founded on August 12, 1946. The club was formed by the merger of SG Sampierdarenese and SG Andrea Doria, from whose name is also the club Sampdoria name derives. Since then, the Sampdoria played most of the time in Serie A, but great successes were made ​​long time. Until the 1980s, the fourth place in the table was the biggest success the Genoese were able to show from the 1960/61 season.

This could be set in the 1984/85 season. In addition, the Sampdoria in that season won their first title: Against AC Milan, the Blucerchiati brought the Italian Cup. By 1994, three more titles could be in this competition celebrated. Thanks to this success, we regularly qualified for the European Cup Winners' Cup where the Sampdoria made ​​just for attention. 1989 reached the Genoese for the first time the finals of this competition, but had to give FC Barcelona 0-2 defeat at the Stade de Suisse. But already in the following year, the Sampdoria was again in the final and this time the competition could also be obtained: In the Ullevi Stadium, Anderlecht was defeated 2-0. Gianluca Vialli scoring both goals for Sampdoria in extra time.

The biggest success in club history celebrated the Blucerchiati but in the following season ( 1990/91 ) when she secured the Italian Championship against AC Milan. The association is itself qualified for the European Cup of Champions 1991/92, where the Sampdoria in their group prevailed against Red Star Belgrade, RSC Anderlecht and Panathinaikos Athens and reached the final. There they met as three years prior to the FC Barcelona. But also at Wembley kept the Catalans the upper hand: The game went 0-1 from the perspective of Blucerchiati after extra time lost.

Architect of this successful team was Yugoslav football coach Vujadin Boškov, the Sampdoria from 1986 to 1992 was responsible. Key players of the time were, among others, goalkeeper Gianluca Pagliuca, defender Pietro Vierchowod, midfielder Attilio Lombardo and Gianluca Vialli and Roberto the striker Mancini.

After 1994, the Sampdoria could not build on past successes. Although a single digit table space was up to season 1997/98 always achieved, but in the season 1998/99 increased the Genoese as a table Sixteenth to Serie B from. Only in the 2003/04 season the Blucerchiati should play perfectly again.

The greatest success of recent club history celebrated the Sampdoria in the season 2009/10, when the team, led by captain Angelo Palombo and the two strikers Giampaolo Pazzini and Antonio Cassano, fourth place achieved and thus the participation for the play- offs of the Champions League 2010/11 secured. In the final round of qualifying but we narrowly failed to Werder Bremen; after an external 1:3 first leg defeat led Genoa in their own stadium in the return match to extra time 3-0 to then get a goal by Markus Rosenberg and so to go into overtime. Sampdoria won 3-2 after 120 minutes, but failed due to a total game score of 5:4. In the next group stage of the Europa League, the team was eliminated when third in the group behind the PSV Eindhoven and Metalist Kharkiv and before VSC Debrecen. The next disappointment followed a little later, because at the end of the season 2010/11 Sampdoria rose as a table Eighteenth again from the B series.

However, the return to the highest Italian league was not long in coming. As in sixth Genoa reached the relegation mode whose final winner takes the rank of the third climber in the 2011/12 season. In a return game, the club first, by 2-1 and 1-1 against U.S. Sassuolo through before AS Varese was defeated 3-2 and 1-0 in the finals. On January 21, 2013, the club president Riccardo Garrone reigning died after a long illness.

Team logo and colors

The club logo is the silhouette of a pipe-smoking sailor named Baciccia ( Baptist ).

An absolute singularity and a characteristic Italian professional football club are the colors of the Sampdoria dar. Blucerchiato would translate in English about with blauumrahmt or blauumringt. For a more detailed explanation: The majority of the Samp - home jerseys and club emblem consists of a strong shade of blue that a small ring of white, red and black and white again surrounds. The Sampdoria players and fans thus also referred to as Blucerchiati than Blauumrahmte.

Achievements

A- Team

Internationally

  • European Cup Winners' Cup (1): 1989/90

National

  • Italian Championship (1): 1990/91
  • Coppa Italia ( 4): 1985, 1988, 1988/89, 1993/94
  • Supercoppa Italiana ( 1): 1991

Youth team

Internationally

National

  • Campionato Primavera (1): 2008
  • Coppa Italia Primavera (1): 2008

Personal Awards

Guerin d' Oro ( 4)

Oscar del Calcio ( 1)

Scorers

European Cup Winners' Cup ( 1)

Serie A ( 2)

Squad of the 2013/14 season

(Updated: October 5, 2013)

Former Players

Goalkeeper

Defender

Midfielder

Striker

Top 10 by appearances and goals

(As of December 18, 2010, are given in all required games and gates )

Coach History

Genoa C.F.C. 1960–61 Serie A 1984–85 Serie A A.C. Milan 1988–89 European Cup Winners' Cup Stade de Suisse, Wankdorf 1989–90 European Cup Winners' Cup 1990–91 Serie A 1991–92 European Cup Wembley Stadium (1923) 1997–98 Serie A 1998–99 Serie A 2003–04 Serie A 2009–10 Serie A 2010–11 UEFA Champions League AS Varese 1910 Riccardo Garrone (entrepreneur) Feature (machine learning) 1984–85 Coppa Italia 1987–88 Coppa Italia 1988–89 Coppa Italia 1993–94 Coppa Italia Defender (association football) Bartosz Salamon Shkodran Mustafi Manolo Gabbiadini Gaetano Berardi Roberto Soriano Birkir Bjarnason Enzo Maresca Daniele Gastaldello Vincenzo Fiorillo Simon Poulsen Andrea Petagna Hans-Peter Briegel Ernst Ocwirk David Platt (footballer) Eddie Firmani Luca Pellegrini (footballer) Alfredo Foni Pietro Rava Adolfo Baloncieri Eraldo Monzeglio Fulvio Bernardini Heriberto Herrera Luciano Spalletti Domenico Di Carlo Ciro Ferrara Delio Rossi 2013–14 Serie A Atalanta B.C. Cagliari Calcio Calcio Catania S.S. Lazio Hellas Verona F.C.
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