C.S. Firenze

The Club Sportivo Firenze was an Italian sports club from Florence.

The Club Sportivo Firenze was built in 1903 from the merger between the Club and the Club Sportivo Ardire Velocipdeistico Fiorentino. As a club jersey you chose a jersey with the Giglio Fiorentino ( en: Florentine lily) and from the beginning of the CS Firenze became a club with department in a variety of sports. So you committed, inter alia, to in athletics, bicycle racing, motorcycle racing, fencing, and later also in football, basketball, boxing and Tamburello. The Club races of the CS Firenze was used in the sequence of the best sprinters in Europe as a training ground. 1911 new running track inside the Velodrome was built, which was subsequently used to conduct competitions in walking. At its opening, the Florentines were able to admire the marathon runner Dorando Pietri and the Sprinter Franco Giongo.

In the prewar years, the association focused mainly on the bicycle riding and soccer. After the First World War, the Athletics became more and more important section of the club. In addition to the various running events and other disciplines in 1920 was incorporated into the program. This reorientation coincided with the decline of Società Sportiva Itala which had long dominated the athletics scene in Florence. After a few years, the walkers of the CS Firenze dominated the regional competitions. The then president Pietro Pucci united in the team of CS Firenze the best athletes in the region, these included the Olympians Disma Ferrario, Nello Bartolini, Giuseppe Lippi, Enrico Torre, Antonio Capecchio and the president's son, Puccio Pucci. The end of 1927 decreed the fascist regime that should unite the athletics department of the Club Sportivo Firenze with that of the Unione Sportiva Fiorentina to Società Giglio Rosso. This was just one of the many restructuring in the club landscape of Florence from the Machese Luigi Ridolfi, the Secretary-General of the fascists in Florence, who was also President of the Club Sportivo. The newly established Società Giglio Rosso continued to use the facility of Club Sportivo in Velodromo delle Cascine down to the year 1930, when the new club headquarters of Giglio Rosso had been completed at the Viale Michelangelo. After the Club Sportivo Firenze, had lost his athletics section, now the focus has been increasingly on the sport of cycling, here you also variously celebrated successes.

After the 2nd World War, led his involvement in cycling and continued centrating primarily on the track cycling. For this purpose, the velodrome was completely renovated in 1947. The results spoke for themselves as a result, outstanding was about Enzo Sacchi, several times Italian champion, twice world champion of amateurs and even 1952 gold medalist in the Olympic Games was. Today, the Club Sportivo Firenze is still a political sportive club, among others, in addition to the cycling also a tennis department and again a football department has.

Football Division

The football section of the CS Firenze was founded in 1912, which would later merge with the Palestra Ginnastica Fiorentina Libertas for Fiorentina.

  • Former Italian football club
  • Football club in Tuscany
  • Sport ( Florence)
  • Established in 1903
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