Calcio Como

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Como

Full name

Calcio Como SRL^[1]

Nickname(s)

Lariani

Founded

1907

Ground

Stadio Giuseppe Sinigaglia,
Como, Italy
(Capacity 13,602)

Chairman

Enzo Angiuoni

Manager

Ninni Corda

League

Serie D/B

2007–08

Serie D/B, 1st





Home colours





Away colours

Calcio Como are an Italian football club, based in Como. The club was founded in 1907. The team's colors are blue and white.

Como have last been in Serie A in 2002–03; this was followed by three consecutive relegations that brought the team down in Serie C2 at the end of the season 2004–05 after having lost a playoff (2-1 on aggregate) to Novara Calcio, and being then even cancelled from Italian professional football because of bankruptcy. They were successively admitted to Serie D, the top level of non-professional football in Italy, where they spent three seasons before finally managing to win promotion back to Serie C2 in the 2007–08 season.^[2]

1 History
2 Players
- 2.1 2007–08 squad
3 Famous players
4 References
5 External links

[edit] History

Como were first promoted to Serie A in 1949 and enjoyed a respectable four-year stay before relegation, the next 20 years were spent moving between Serie B and C but more often the former. A revival in the 1970s saw the club emerge as contenders for promotion to Serie A, this was achieved in 1975 but despite the best efforts of players such as Alessandro Scanziani they would last only a season. They would slump to C1 by 1978, but with a rebuilt team containing stars like Pietro Vierchowod would achieve successive promotions and a two-year stay in Serie A (1980-82).

Como managed another promotion to the top flight in 1984, with a five-year stint in Serie A proving the club's most successful period of recent times. The strikeforce of Dan Corneliusson and Stefano Borgonovo oversaw a credible 9th place finish in 1986, this was repeated the following year with far fewer goals scored. The club's defence, led by hard man Pasquale Bruno, proved more than up to the task however. Relegation in 1989 percipitated a rapid decline, with Como spending most of the 1990s in Serie C1 with the exception of 1994-95. Interestingly, Chelsea goalkeeper Carlo Cudicini spent a year on loan at Como.

The 21st century saw Como experience a brief revival. Promotion to Serie B in 2001 was marred by an appallingly violent incident in a game against Modena, resulting in captain Massimiliano Ferrigno being handed a three-year ban. They nonetheless managed promotion to Serie A in 2002, ironically being promoted alongside Modena. However, the return to Serie A proved a major disappointment with the side in the bottom two all season, and a ban on games at the Sinigaglia after crowd violence. Successive relegations have caused financial difficulties, and in 2005 Como were condemned to the amateur ranks of Serie D. They returned to Serie C2 in 2008, after having won the Girone B of Serie D.^[2]

[edit] Players

[edit] 2007–08 squad

As of July 24, 2007

No.		Position	Player
		GK	Luigi Sangiorgio
		DF	Claudio Carrafiello
		DF	Roberto Rudi
		DF	Riccardo Idda
		DF	Davide Sentinelli
		MF	Joseph Manzini
		MF	Roberto Cau
		MF	Nicola Rais
		MF	Marco Urgias
		FW	Massimiliano Farrugia
		FW	Doris Fuakuputu
		FW	Sanel Sehic
		FW	Marco Gasparri
		FW	Edoardo Quarantini

No.		Position	Player
		GK	Domenico Savinelli
		GK	Michael Luccà
		GK	Eugenio La Manna
		DF	Fabio Adobati
		DF	Andrea Soncin
		DF	Mattias Franchetto
		DF	Marcello Borra
		DF	Vincenzo Saladino
		MF	Fabrizio Castelnuovo
		MF	Davide Gavazzi
		MF	Gianluca Greco
		MF	Luca Guidetti
		MF	Giacomo Angelo De Martis