A.S. Roma was founded in the summer of 1927 when a secretary of the
National Fascist Party,
Italo Foschi, initiated the merger of three older
Italian Football Championship clubs from the city of Rome;
Roman FC,
SS Alba-Audace and
Fortitudo-Pro Roma SGS. The purpose of the merger was to give the Eternal City a strong club to rival that of the more dominant
Northern Italian clubs of the time. The only major Roman club to resist the merger was
S.S. Lazio because of the intervention of the army General Vaccaro, member of the club and executive of Italian Football Federation. The club played its earliest seasons at the
Motovelodromo Appio stadium, before settling in the working-class streets of
Testaccio, where it built an all-wooden ground
Campo Testaccio; this was opened in November 1929. An early season in which Roma made a large mark was the
1930–31 championship, the club finished as runners-up behind
Juventus. Captain
Attilio Ferraris along with
Guido Masetti,
Fulvio Bernardini and
Rodolfo Volk were highly important players during this period.
On 16 April 2011, the takeover contract was signed. The new ownership immediately went into effect by making significant changes in the club, hiring
Walter Sabatini as director of football and former Spanish international and
FC Barcelona B coach
Luis Enrique as manager; the first high-profile signings from the duo were attacking midfielder
Erik Lamela from
River Plate, forward
Bojan Krkic from
Barcelona, goalkeeper
Maarten Stekelenburg from
AFC Ajax and unattached defender
Gabriel Heinze. The club also sold and released high earner, namely defender
John Arne Riise, keeper
Doni, forward
Jérémy Ménez and
Mirko Vucinic.
However, Roma was eliminated from
2011–12 UEFA Europa League play-off round. After the formal takeover on 18 August, Roma bought forward
Pablo Daniel Osvaldo, midfielder
Miralem Pjanic,
Fernando Gago and defender
Simon Kjær, as well as youngster
Fabio Borini, made the club costed more than 40 million if the loan deal were successfully turned to definitive deal. The picture under is a overview from the hall of fame.
The
Stadio Olimpico is the main and largest sports facility of
Rome, Italy. It is located within the
Foro Italico sports complex on the north of the city. An asset of the
Italian National Olympic Committee, the structure is intended primarily for
football. It is the home stadium of
Serie A clubs
Lazio and
Roma, the venue of the
Coppa Italia final, the home venue of the
Italian national rugby union team and Italy's national athletics stadium. It also occasionally hosts concerts and events of various kinds.
For the
1990 FIFA World Cup, in which it was the main Stadium, the facility was the subject of an extensive enhancement. Because of the work, in 1989 the Capitoline teams Lazio and Roma played their
Serie A games at
Stadio Flaminio. The work was entrusted to a team of designers, including the original designer Annibale Vitellozzi. From 1987 to 1990, the plan of action was amended several times, with a consequent rise in costs. Ultimately, Olimpico was entirely demolished and rebuilt in reinforced concrete, with the exception of the
Tribuna Tevere expanded with the addition of further steps, the
curves were closer to the field of nine metres. All sectors of the stadium were covered with full coverage in tensostructure white. Also installed were backless seats in blue plastic, and two giant screens built in 1987 for the World Athletics Championships were also mounted inside the curve. At the end of the new version of Olimpico had 82,911 seats, and so was the 14th stage in the world for number of seats in the stadiums used for football, the 29th among all the stages and the second in Italy, to just behind the
San Siro Stadium of
Milan. The restructuring works, with the result of an undoubtedly impressive and fascinating, not kept account of the surroundings. The rise of the stairs, as well as coveragestravolsero fully the principles on which the previous stage was designed and constructed.
The Stadio Olimpico was host to five matches in which the
Italian National Team took part in, and the final between
West Germany and
Argentina. West Germany won the final match 1–0.
By the same conformation of 1990, on 22 May 1996, the Stadio Olimpico hosted the
UEFA Champions League Final between
Juventus and
Ajax, which saw the
Bianconeri prevail in a penalty shoot-out.
In 2007, it was engaged in a vast plan of restyling inside the stadium to conform to
UEFA standards, for the
2009 UEFA Champions League Final, which was held in
Rome. The work was performed and completed in 2008, having included the establishment of standard structures, with improvements in security, the adjustment of dressing rooms and press room, the complete replacement of the seats, installing
high definition LED screens, the partial removal of plexiglas fences between spectators and the field, and a reduction of posts, until the current capacity of 73,261. In order to increase the comfort of the audience, a part of the modernisation of the stadium were the increase of the points of rest and adjustments to toilets. These actions have allowed the
Stadio Olimpico to be classified as
UEFA Elite stadium.
The new former manager of ROMA was the 80's and 90's legend Giuseppe Giannini. He won with the club one italian championship and three coppa italia. He played with the number 10 and be the captain in the capital playing for the giallorossi. His surname "il principe" he gets because of his style to play football. It means "the prince". The 49 year old italian ex-international signs a contract for one year with an option of two more years. He focused serie a and one of his main goals are to win this competition and pull roma to the next level.
He still played from 1981 till 1996 for the romanisti and played 318 games in this he scored 49 times. After his crash with club owner Sensi he go away of rome and play for the austrian club Sturm Graz. His last game as active footballer he played for Lecce in 1999. He is one of the famoused club ikone and the supporters are in extase when they heard who will be the next roma coach.
