A.S. Roma
A.S. Roma (Associazione Sportiva Roma) is a Italian football club. Nicknamed the giallorossi. They play in dark red shirts, white shorts and black socks.
A.S. Roma was founded in July 1927, when Rome already had three teams in the Italian football league - Alba, Fortitudo and Lazio. The Fascist regime's idea at the time was to merge all the Rome clubs into one which the many newly-arrived immigrants could identify with, Lazio considered very much a patrician club of the Roman social elite, and strong enough to challenge the northerners. Lazio refused even a meeting but Alba, Pro Roma, Fortitudo and Roman attended and Roma was formed. Roma was named after the city and with the red and yellow strip of the Roman club. The initial stadium was Motovelodromo Appio. They took part in their first league in the 1929-30 season.
A.S. Roma won their first scudetto in the 1941-42 season. The second was won in the 1982-83 season and the third in 2000-01. They were runners-up in 1930-31, 1935-36, 1980-81, 1983-84, 1985-86, 2001-02 and 2003-04. They were relegated only once, at the end of the 1950-51 season.
The club has won the Coppa Italia seven times: 1963-64, 1968-69, 1979-80, 1980-81, 1983-84, 1985-86, and 1990-91. and the UEFA Cup (Fairs Cup) once in 1960-61, defeating Birmingham City F.C.
The current stadium is the 82,656 seater Stadio Olimpico, which they share with S.S. Lazio. The two teams compete against one another each year in the Rome derby, a major and emotional event in Italian soccer.
Famous players have included: Amadeo Amadei, Angelo Sormani, Roberto Pruzzo, Bruno Conti, Paulo Roberto Falcão, Rudi Völler, Giuseppe Giannini, Hidetoshi Nakata, Gabriel Batistuta and Emerson. Current 'stars' include Christian Chivu, Antonio Cassano and Francesco Totti.
