U.S. Triestina Calcio
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Unione Sportiva Triestina is an Italian football
club based in Trieste
, in the region of Friuli Venezia Giulia.
It is in the season 2010-11 from Serie B
, having returned there in 2002 after 11 seasons in Serie C
and Serie D
, the club was relegated to Lega Pro Prima Divisione.
) in 1924. The club successively featured in the first-ever Serie A
season in 1929, and played consecutively to the Italian top flight until 1956. During those successful times, the team also featured the likes of local Trieste native Nereo Rocco
, who played as winger for Triestina from 1930 to 1937, becoming also the first player from the team to become part of the Azzurri
squad (in 1934). Successively, Rocco returned to Triestina as a head coach in 1947, and completed the 1947–48 as Serie A runners-up, only behind Torino
; this is still, as of today, the best result in history for the Trieste-based club. Rocco then left in 1950 to be replaced by Hungarian Béla Guttman, who managed to save the club from relegation only in the final matchday. Another struggling season followed in 1951–52, with Triestina escaping relegation only after winning playoffs against Lucchese
and Brescia
. During the 1952–53 season, Cesare Maldini
made his Serie A debut as a Triestina jersey. In 1953 Rocco returned to Triestina, but was sacked after 21 matchdays due to poor results. Three more mid-table seasons followed before Triestina suffered its first relegation in 1957. Successively, Triestina returned to Serie A in 1958, but were relegated in their first comeback season, which is also their last top flight campaign to date.
The club successively went relegated to Serie C
in 1961 once, in 1965 twice, and even Serie D
in 1971, forcing the alabardati to a local derby with Ponziana in 1975 which was quite unknown to local people in modern times. The club returned to Serie C in 1976, and was admitted to Serie C1
in 1978, and finally returned to Serie B in 1983, missing promotion to the top flight for a few seasons before being relegated in 1988. Triestina also played in second level between 1962–1965 and 1989–1991.
In 1994, the team was forced to fold, because of financial insolvency, and was re-founded by Giorgio Del Sabato. The team restarted from Serie D, and was readmitted to Serie C2
by the federation one year later. In 2001, after six seasons in Serie C2, the club won promotion to Serie C1 after playoffs; this was followed by a second consecutive promotion, this time to Serie B, both under head coach Ezio Rossi.
In the 2005–06 season, Triestina changed its manager five times. The list include the tandem Alessandro Calori
-Adriano Buffoni, Pietro Vierchowod
, caretaker Francesco De Falco, youth team coach Vittorio Russo
and Andrea Agostinelli.
In addition, Triestina's owner Flaviano Tonellotto was forced to resign on 1 February 2006 by the magistrates because of a pending court procedure for bankruptcy
, and his wife Jeannine Koevoets was named to replace him at the helm of the club. However, Tonellotto was successively ordered to leave the association because of financial troubles. The magistrates named Francesco De Falco as caretaker chairman with the idea of finding somebody interested to buy the club. Curiously, in the 2005–06 De Falco, a player for Triestina in the 80's, covered three different roles in the club: director of football, manager and chairman. In April 2006 the team was purchased by the Fantinel family, owners of a wine company in the region.
In recent years, Triestina struggled to mount a promotion campaign to end half-century absence from the Italian top flight. Triestina finished 8th in 2008–2009 season. However failed to remain in Serie B in the 2009–10 season, with a crashing 3–0 defeat to Padova
at the play-outs, and was relegated to Lega Pro Prima Divisione after 8 years of endeavour in the second tier of Italian football, only to be readmitted to Serie B after Ancona
filed for bankruptcy.
On May 21, 2011, after a disastrous campaign, Triestina was relegated to Lega Pro Prima Divisione.
In the season 2011-12 it plays in Lega Pro Prima Divisione group B.
Serie B 1957–1958, 1959–1961, 1962–1965, 1983–1988, 1989–1991, 2002–2011
Serie C/Serie C1/L. Pro I Div.: 1961–1962, 1965–1971, 1972–1974, 1976–1983, 1991–1994, 2001–2002, 2011-
Serie D/C2: 1971–1972, 1974–1976, 1995–2001
Serie D (as fifth level): 1994–1995
Football in Italy
Football is the most popular sport in Italy. The Italian national football team has won the FIFA World Cup 4 times , trailing only Brazil . Italy's club sides have won 27 major European trophies, making them the most successful European nation in the subject of football...
club based in Trieste
Trieste
Trieste is a city and seaport in northeastern Italy. It is situated towards the end of a narrow strip of land lying between the Adriatic Sea and Italy's border with Slovenia, which lies almost immediately south and east of the city...
, in the region of Friuli Venezia Giulia.
It is in the season 2010-11 from Serie B
Serie B
Serie B, currently named Serie bwin due to sponsorship reasons, is the second-highest division in the Italian football league system after the Serie A. It is contested by 22 teams and organized by the Lega Serie B since July 2010, after the split of Lega Calcio that previously took care of both the...
, having returned there in 2002 after 11 seasons in Serie C
Serie C
The Lega Italiana Calcio Professionistico , commonly known as Lega Pro , is the governing body that runs the third and fourth highest football divisions in Italy, the Prima Divisione and Seconda Divisione respectively. It also includes the sole professional club of San Marino...
and 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...
, the club was relegated to Lega Pro Prima Divisione.
History
The club was founded in 1918 as merger of local teams Ponziana and Foot-Ball Club Trieste. The club reached Seconda Divisione (now known as Serie BSerie B
Serie B, currently named Serie bwin due to sponsorship reasons, is the second-highest division in the Italian football league system after the Serie A. It is contested by 22 teams and organized by the Lega Serie B since July 2010, after the split of Lega Calcio that previously took care of both the...
) in 1924. The club successively featured in the first-ever Serie A
Serie A
Serie A , now called Serie A TIM due to sponsorship by Telecom Italia, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and has been operating for over eighty years since 1929. It had been organized by Lega Calcio until 2010, but a new...
season in 1929, and played consecutively to the Italian top flight until 1956. During those successful times, the team also featured the likes of local Trieste native Nereo Rocco
Nereo Rocco
Nereo Rocco was an Italian football player and manager. He is famous for having been one of the most successful head coaches in Italy, and the first proponent of catenaccio in the country.-Playing career:...
, who played as winger for Triestina from 1930 to 1937, becoming also the first player from the team to become part of the Azzurri
Italy national football team
The Italy National Football Team , represents Italy in association football and is controlled by the Italian Football Federation , the governing body for football in Italy. Italy is the second most successful national team in the history of the World Cup having won four titles , just one fewer than...
squad (in 1934). Successively, Rocco returned to Triestina as a head coach in 1947, and completed the 1947–48 as Serie A runners-up, only behind Torino
Torino F.C.
Torino Football Club, commonly referred to as simply Torino, is a professional Italian football club based in Turin, Piedmont, that was founded in 1906. The club has spent most of its history in the top tier in Italian football....
; this is still, as of today, the best result in history for the Trieste-based club. Rocco then left in 1950 to be replaced by Hungarian Béla Guttman, who managed to save the club from relegation only in the final matchday. Another struggling season followed in 1951–52, with Triestina escaping relegation only after winning playoffs against Lucchese
A.S. Lucchese-Libertas
Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Football Club Lucca 2011 is an Italian football club, based in Lucca, Tuscany that currently plays in Eccellenza Tuscany.The club was founded in 1905 and having last been in Serie A in 1952....
and Brescia
Brescia Calcio
Brescia Calcio , known simply as Brescia, is the largest football club in the Lombard city of Brescia, where it was founded in 1911.In the 2009–10 season, in the return leg of the Serie B playoff final, they defeated Torino 2-1 at home , returning to Serie A after a 5-year absence...
. During the 1952–53 season, Cesare Maldini
Cesare Maldini
Cesare Maldini is an Italian football manager and former player. He played as a centre back and spent the majority of his career with AC Milan. Maldini also represented Italy at international level in the 1962 and 1966 World Cups. His son Paolo, also a defender, previously held the record for the...
made his Serie A debut as a Triestina jersey. In 1953 Rocco returned to Triestina, but was sacked after 21 matchdays due to poor results. Three more mid-table seasons followed before Triestina suffered its first relegation in 1957. Successively, Triestina returned to Serie A in 1958, but were relegated in their first comeback season, which is also their last top flight campaign to date.
The club successively went relegated to Serie C
Serie C
The Lega Italiana Calcio Professionistico , commonly known as Lega Pro , is the governing body that runs the third and fourth highest football divisions in Italy, the Prima Divisione and Seconda Divisione respectively. It also includes the sole professional club of San Marino...
in 1961 once, in 1965 twice, and even 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...
in 1971, forcing the alabardati to a local derby with Ponziana in 1975 which was quite unknown to local people in modern times. The club returned to Serie C in 1976, and was admitted to Serie C1
Serie C1
Lega Pro Prima Divisione is the name of the third highest football league in Italy. It consists of 36 teams, divided geographically into two divisions of 18 teams each. Until 2008 it was known as Serie C1....
in 1978, and finally returned to Serie B in 1983, missing promotion to the top flight for a few seasons before being relegated in 1988. Triestina also played in second level between 1962–1965 and 1989–1991.
In 1994, the team was forced to fold, because of financial insolvency, and was re-founded by Giorgio Del Sabato. The team restarted from Serie D, and was readmitted to Serie C2
Serie C2
Lega Pro Seconda Divisione is the name of the fourth highest football league in Italy, the lowest with a professional status. Usually it consists of 54 teams, but in the season 2010–11 the teams are only 49 divided geographically into three divisions of 17, 16 and 16 teams each...
by the federation one year later. In 2001, after six seasons in Serie C2, the club won promotion to Serie C1 after playoffs; this was followed by a second consecutive promotion, this time to Serie B, both under head coach Ezio Rossi.
In the 2005–06 season, Triestina changed its manager five times. The list include the tandem Alessandro Calori
Alessandro Calori
Alessandro Calori is an Italian association football coach and former player.-Playing:A product of Arezzo's youth system, Calori made his professional debut in 1985 with Serie C team Montevarchi, where he spent four season...
-Adriano Buffoni, Pietro Vierchowod
Pietro Vierchowod
Pietro Vierchowod is an Italian former footballer turned coach.Vierchowod was nicknamed the zar because he was the son of a Ukrainian Red Army soldier. Vierchowod was a man-marker ....
, caretaker Francesco De Falco, youth team coach Vittorio Russo
Vittorio Russo
Vittorio Russo is an Italian football manager and former player. He last served head coach of Serie A outfit A.S. Livorno Calcio until October 2009.-Career:...
and Andrea Agostinelli.
In addition, Triestina's owner Flaviano Tonellotto was forced to resign on 1 February 2006 by the magistrates because of a pending court procedure for bankruptcy
Bankruptcy
Bankruptcy is a legal status of an insolvent person or an organisation, that is, one that cannot repay the debts owed to creditors. In most jurisdictions bankruptcy is imposed by a court order, often initiated by the debtor....
, and his wife Jeannine Koevoets was named to replace him at the helm of the club. However, Tonellotto was successively ordered to leave the association because of financial troubles. The magistrates named Francesco De Falco as caretaker chairman with the idea of finding somebody interested to buy the club. Curiously, in the 2005–06 De Falco, a player for Triestina in the 80's, covered three different roles in the club: director of football, manager and chairman. In April 2006 the team was purchased by the Fantinel family, owners of a wine company in the region.
In recent years, Triestina struggled to mount a promotion campaign to end half-century absence from the Italian top flight. Triestina finished 8th in 2008–2009 season. However failed to remain in Serie B in the 2009–10 season, with a crashing 3–0 defeat to Padova
Calcio Padova
Calcio Padova is an Italian football club, based in Padua, Veneto. The club was founded in 1910. Padova is playing in Serie B, having last been in Serie A in 1996...
at the play-outs, and was relegated to Lega Pro Prima Divisione after 8 years of endeavour in the second tier of Italian football, only to be readmitted to Serie B after Ancona
A.C. Ancona
Associazione Calcio Ancona was a professional Italian football club, based in Ancona, Marche. It was founded in 1905 as Unione Sportiva Anconitana, changing its name to Ancona Calcio 1905 in 1981 and being refounded in 2004 with its last denomination....
filed for bankruptcy.
On May 21, 2011, after a disastrous campaign, Triestina was relegated to Lega Pro Prima Divisione.
In the season 2011-12 it plays in Lega Pro Prima Divisione group B.
League Participations (Since 1929)
Serie A: 1929–1957 (Serie A wasn't played between 1943–1946 due to Second World War), 1958–1959Serie B 1957–1958, 1959–1961, 1962–1965, 1983–1988, 1989–1991, 2002–2011
Serie C/Serie C1/L. Pro I Div.: 1961–1962, 1965–1971, 1972–1974, 1976–1983, 1991–1994, 2001–2002, 2011-
Serie D/C2: 1971–1972, 1974–1976, 1995–2001
Serie D (as fifth level): 1994–1995
Current squad
Notable former players
This list of former players includes those who received international caps while playing for the team, made significant contributions to the team in terms of appearances or goals while playing for the team, or who made significant contributions to the sport either before they played for the team, or after they left. It is clearly not yet complete and all inclusive, and additions and refinements will continue to be made over time.| Ildefons Lima Christian Nzinga Christian Nzinga Christian-Norbert Nzinga is a French-born Angolan footballer currently without a club.-Career:Have played in some lower league clubs in Belgium, Germany, Norway and Italy... Max Vieri Max Vieri Massimiliano "Max" Vieri is an Italian Australian football player. He is a striker, and currently plays for AC Prato of Italian Lega Pro Prima Divisione.... Marko Stanković Marko Stankovic Marko Stanković is an Austrian - Serbian football player. He currently plays for FK Austria Wien.-External links:* - Sturm Graz* * *... Per Jensen Per Jensen Per Alex Jensen, known as Per Jensen for short is a Danish former football player. He started his career as an amateur player with Kjøbenhavns Boldklub and was the top goalscorer of the 1959 Danish football championship... Erling Sørensen Erling Sørensen Erling Walther Sørensen was a Danish amateur football player and club manager, who won a bronze medal with the Denmark national football team at the 1948 Summer Olympics. Sørensen played professionally in the Italian Serie A championship for six years, scoring 48 goals in 169 matches for Italian... Catilina Aubameyang Catilina Aubameyang Catilina Aubameyang is a Gabonese international football player who is currently playing for 105 Libreville.-Football career:... Guy Roger Nzamba Guy Roger Nzamba Guy Roger Nzamba is a former Gabonese footballer, who played as a forward. He also represented the Gabon national football team.... |
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Rino Ferrario Rino Ferrario Rino Ferrario was an Italian football player.He was one of five players selected to the Italian national team for the 1954 World Cup that did not see any action .Nicknamed 'mobilia' for his rugby player-like physique Rino Ferrario (born December 7, 1926 in Albiate Brianza, Milan) was an Italian... Daniele Galloppa Daniele Galloppa Daniele Galloppa is an Italian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Serie A club Parma. Galloppa is a central midfield playmaker with outstanding reading of the game, excellent vision and an ability to deliver incisive passes.... Pietro Grosso Pietro Grosso Pietro Grosso was an Italian professional football player.He played for 11 seasons in the Serie A for Vicenza Calcio, U.S. Triestina Calcio, A.C. Milan, A.S. Roma and A.C. Torino.... Giovanni Invernizzi Giovanni Invernizzi (footballer born 1931) Giovanni Invernizzi was an Italian professional football player and coach.-External links:*... Cesare Maldini Cesare Maldini Cesare Maldini is an Italian football manager and former player. He played as a centre back and spent the majority of his career with AC Milan. Maldini also represented Italy at international level in the 1962 and 1966 World Cups. His son Paolo, also a defender, previously held the record for the... Alessandro Parisi Alessandro Parisi Alessandro Parisi is an Italian footballer.He played for the Sicilian clubs Palermo, Trapani, and Messina for 8 seasons. He also played 5 seasons on the Italian peninsula. He scored 14 goals in Serie B for Messina in the 2003–04 season. He made his Serie A debut next season, on 12 September 2004,... Carlo Rigotti Carlo Rigotti Carlo Rigotti was an Italian football player and manager from Trieste. Over the course of his career, Rigotti played for three Serie A clubs; he started his career with hometown side Triestina, then going on to play for Milan and Novara.After retiring from the playing field, he became a manager at... |
Nereo Rocco Nereo Rocco Nereo Rocco was an Italian football player and manager. He is famous for having been one of the most successful head coaches in Italy, and the first proponent of catenaccio in the country.-Playing career:... Francesco Romano Francesco Romano Francesco Romano is a retired Italian footballer.During his club career he played for Reggiana, Milan, Triestina, Napoli, Torino, Venezia and Palazzolo.... Ferruccio Valcareggi Jehad Muntasser Jehad Muntasser Jehad Abdussalam Muntasser is a Libyan football midfielder who, as of the 2006/2007 season plays for Treviso.Muntasser started his career at Italian side Pro Sesto, before being signed by English Premier League side Arsenal in 1997... Martin Petráš Martin Petráš Martin Petráš is a Slovakian football central defender who currently plays for the Italian Serie B club Grosseto and the Slovakia national football team... Alain Nef Alain Nef Alain Nef is a Swiss football defender who currently plays for BSC Young Boys.- Career :Before he played for Piacenza Calcio and FC Zürich... Leandro de los Santos |
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