A Season With Verona

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Juventus eventually received a 10-point deduction and finished seventh – without it they would have been fourth. Photograph: Alessandro Di Marco/EPA These were more than mere modest achievements for a mid-size city with a limited appeal to fans across the nation. But soon enough financial difficulties caught up with team managers. In 1991 the team folded and was reborn as Verona, regularly moving to and fro between Serie A and Serie B for several seasons. In 1995 the name was officially returned to Hellas Verona. For the last few months Anglo-Italian novelist Tim Parks has been writing of his devotion to Italian football club Hellas Verona in The Guardian. In A Season with Verona we get a chance to read the full and absorbing narrative that lay behind those short snippets. Lega Pro 1/B: i tabellini della 34.a giornata"[Lega Pro 1 / B: the scores of the 34th matchday] (in Italian). Data Sport. 9 May 2009. Archived from the original on 12 May 2010 . Retrieved 8 November 2010.

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A Season with Verona, the cult classic by Tim Parks, charted the highs and lows of one memorable season spent following Hellas Verona. At that time, they were an unfashionable provincial team, struggling for survival in the Italian top-flight. Of course, it’s far more than just a story about football, delving deep into the very essence of being a fan, while seamlessly exploring various aspects of Italian history, politics, culture and society. It was a year of great loss, as well. Gianluca Vialli passed away in January, just a few weeks after Sinisa Mihajlovic. Silvio Berlusconi died on Monday, a man with a more complicated legacy, but one whose impact on football as owner of Milan and more recently Monza cannot be denied. Ivan Provedel (Lazio); Kim Min-jae (Napoli), Francesco Acerbi (Inter), Chris Smalling (Roma); Giovanni Di Lorenzo (Napoli), Sergej Milinkovic-Savic (Lazio), Stanislav Lobotka (Napoli), Federico Dimarco (Inter); Mattia Zaccagni (Lazio), Victor Osimhen (Napoli), Khvicha Kvaratskhelia (Napoli) At the provincial clubs such as Verona, all supporters think that every facet of Italian politics and officialdom is against them. This goes way beyond the pitch: believing that they are considered to be the poor relations in life, they rally against power and money. It is ironic, therefore, that these resentful people can associate so freely with the players themselves, revering them as gods, oblivious to the fact that their heroes are earning money and gaining power that they can only dream of.Speaking to the Crazy Faithful fanzine last year, he observed that “Fandom comes in waves. Football is there when you need it.” As for a sequel, his response was a resounding “no”: There will be time for transfer talk in the months ahead. This is the moment to remember a marathon season in which Fiorentina, on their way to Coppa Italia and Europa Conference League finals, played a club record 60 games. Their ambitious, front-footed football was another highlight of a campaign that featured so many. When Prandelli left in the summer of 2000, he was replaced by Attilio Perotti, a reserved journeyman coach in his fifties who had managed Verona to promotion in the 1995-96 season. Despite that previous success with the club, Perotti had never coached in Serie A before and struggled to inspire his players. During the 2015–16 season, Verona had not won a single match since the beginning of the campaign until the club edged Atalanta 2–1 on 3 February 2016 in a win at home; coming twenty-three games into the season. [8] Consequently, Verona were relegated from Serie A. [9]

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Hellas Verona had gotten off to a decent enough start. A 1-1 draw away at Bari was followed by just one defeat in the next five games. However, the onset of winter saw a dramatic downturn in fortunes, as Verona drifted ominously towards the bottom of the table. The season reached a dramatic climax, including a 5-4 victory at home against Bologna, a miraculous last-minute victory away to a formidable Parma side, and three points against Perugia on the last day of the season. Then, setting up a nail-biting two-legged relegation tie-breaker against Reggina. I won’t spoil the story by revealing the result here, but there was no shortage of drama. Adrian Mutu, a young Romanian striker who had been rejected by Inter, made his first significant appearance in the book when he scored and enthusiastically celebrated in the Partita della fede(the Match of Faith). The young Romanian clearly hadn’t read the script, as this was a charity match that no one was supposed to win, let alone celebrate doing so. Mutu scored four goals that season (and twelve the next), before going on to enjoy spells at Parma, Chelsea, Juventus and Fiorentina. A formidable talent on the pitch, off it he was difficult to manage and never far from controversy, later serving bans for testing positive for cocaine and other controlled substances. Was this a one-off or the start of an era? Spalletti has already departed and several of those players will be subject to enquiries from Europe’s richest clubs. The sporting director who did much to assemble this group, Cristiano Giuntoli, is wanted by Juventus. De Laurentiis, though, has always been a shrewd negotiator, and has insisted that whatever happens the team will be “in good hands”. It was a fantastic time of my life and a fantastic experience that year when I travelled with the Brigate Gialloblùto all the games and barely did anything but live football and plan away games and make new friends and shout myself hoarse every week. I wouldn’t like to spoil it now with something that couldn’t catch that crazy energy.”From 1898 to 1926, Italian football was organised into regional groups. In this period, Hellas was one of the founding teams of the early league and often among its top final contenders. In 1911, the city helped Hellas replace the early, gritty football fields with a proper venue. This allowed the team to take part in its first regional tournament, which until 1926, was the qualifying stage for the national title. After a three-year stay, their last stint in Serie A ended in grief in 2002. That season emerging international talents such as Adrian Mutu, Mauro Camoranesi, Alberto Gilardino, Martin Laursen, Massimo Oddo, Marco Cassetti and coach Alberto Malesani failed to capitalise on an excellent start and eventually dropped into fourth-to-last place for the first time all season on the final match day, enforcing relegation into Serie B. Ademola Lookman thought he was just having some innocent fun when he mimed a pair of binoculars after scoring for Atalanta against Udinese: the gesture of a man looking. The referee, Daniele Doveri, convinced himself this was some form of dissent and punished the player with a booking. Most regrettable disrobing At the end of the 2001 season, Perotti passed to southern rivals Bari, where he spent two unremarkable seasons, followed by short spells at Empoli, Genoa and Livorno. After a career spanning five decades, Perotti’s days as a coach finally grounded to a halt in 2014. His record with Verona, promotion to Serie A in 1996, and dramatic salvation in 2001 ensure his place in the history books, but he never fully enjoyed the affection of the Curva. Massimiliano Allegri completed a nice piece of symmetry this season. Photograph: Marcelo del Pozo/Reuters Craftiest appointment

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I had one taste of this extreme form of hero-worship. Suspended for a game, ironically against Verona, while I was playing for Bari, I was invited to watch the game with the supporters in their curva (end). My dilemma was that the president of the club had also asked me to sit next to him to watch the game. I made the tactical decision to spend just 15 minutes with the supporters, before taking my seat next to the president. For this simple act, I am now given a hero's welcome whenever I revisit Bari. It made me a Bari Ultra. In the summer of 2000, Prandelli was replaced by Attilio Perotti, a reserved journeyman coach in his fifties. He had never coached a Serie A side before and struggled all season to inspire his players. Parks describes him as “bland, too-amiable….He wears glasses. His chin is weak….”, and when he finds himself sitting next to Perotti on a flight, is somewhat deflated when the taciturn coach reads a Ken Follett book for the duration of the journey. Records and statistics [ edit ] Club statistics [ edit ] The progress of Hellas Verona in the Italian football league structure since the first season of a unified Serie A (1929/30). European cups all-time statistics [ edit ] Competition January 26, 1958. A.C. Verona — Juventus FC 2-3, Matchday 18 of the 1957–58 Serie A. Juventus striker John Charles (center) in action versus Verona's defence. Forgotten the title or the author of a book? Our BookSleuth is specially designed for you. Visit BookSleuth

a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab "Hellas Verona F.C. Football Shirts". Oldfootballshirts . Retrieved 10 February 2021. During these first few years, Hellas was one of three or four area teams playing at a municipal level while fighting against city rivals Bentegodi to become the city's premier football outfit. By the 1907–08 season, Hellas was playing against regional teams, and an intense rivalry with Vicenza that has lasted to this day was born. Italy– List of Second Division (Serie B) Champions". The Record Sport Soccer Statistics Foundation . Retrieved 28 May 2013.