Cuoiovaldarno Romaiano Football Club, colloquially known as Cuoiovaldarno, was an Italian

Italy

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 football

Football (soccer)

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 club based in Santa Croce sull'Arno

Santa Croce sull'Arno

Santa Croce sull'Arno is an Italian town located in the province of Pisa, Tuscany. There are about 13,400 residents as of 2005 and the city has a well-established leather industry, which counts more than 400 factories and laboratories spread over the 16.92 square kilometres of its total area...

, Tuscany

Tuscany

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History

The club was founded in 2003 with the denomination of Cuoiopelli Cappiano Romaiano, as a merger between Cappiano Romaiano, a small team from Ponte a Cappiano, frazione

Frazione

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 of Fucecchio

Fucecchio

Fucecchio is a town and comune of the province of Firenze in the Italian region of Tuscany. The main economical resources of the city are the leather industries, shoes industry and other manufacturing activities, although in the recent years their number has been decreasing because of a slight...

, who was just promoted to Serie C2

Serie C2

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 at the time, and Cuoio Pelli, a regionally more renowned Serie D

Serie D

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 team from Santa Croce sull'Arno

Santa Croce sull'Arno

Santa Croce sull'Arno is an Italian town located in the province of Pisa, Tuscany. There are about 13,400 residents as of 2005 and the city has a well-established leather industry, which counts more than 400 factories and laboratories spread over the 16.92 square kilometres of its total area...

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The club played in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione consecutively from 2003 to 2009, when they were defeated by Bellaria

A.C. Bellaria Igea Marina

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 in the relegation playoffs. In June 2009, the club also announced to have switched to the denomination of Cuoiovaldarno. However, only a month later the club's chairman decided to renounce playing in Serie D

Serie D

Serie D is the top level of the Italian non-professional football association called Lega Nazionale Dilettanti. The association represents over a million football players and thousands of football teams across Italy. Serie D ranks just below Lega Pro Seconda Divisione , and is thus considered the...

 for the 2009–10 season, thus causing the exit of the club from football panorama.

Notable former players

David Balleri

David Balleri

David Balleri is a former Italian footballer .On 22 October 2006, he played his 300th Serie A match, in a 0–0 tie against Siena. He played first Serie A match on 8 September 1993....

 (for Cuoio Pelli, before the merger) Cristiano Lucarelli

Cristiano Lucarelli

He is a staunch admirer of Che Guevara, whose face is frequently displayed on Livorno fans' banners and T-shirts during matches. This first came to the fore in 1997, when, after scoring for Italy's Under-21 side, he celebrated by pulling his jersey over his face to reveal a shirt bearing the...

 (for Cuoio Pelli, before the merger) Massimiliano Allegri (frist team)

External links

• Official club website