SS LAZIO

Società Sportiva Lazio, (BIT: SSL) commonly referred to Lazio, is an Italian professional sports club most noted for its football section, founded in 1900 and based in Rome. Lazio participate in thirty-seven sports disciplines in total, more than any other sports association in Europe.^[1][2]

Lazio's association footballers, who play in sky blue shirts with white shorts, have won Serie A twice, first in 1973–74 and then again in 1999–00. As well as winning four Coppa Italia trophies, Lazio have earned silverware on the European stage, winning the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup and UEFA Super Cup both in 1999.^[3] The club has spent most of their history in the top tier in Italian football, where they are currently playing in the 2008–09 season.

Home games are played at the Stadio Olimpico, a stadium they share with rivals A.S. Roma

Players

As of 2009-01-25^[45]

No. Position Player 1 GK Juan Pablo Carrizo 2 DF Stephan Lichtsteiner 3 DF Aleksandar Kolarov 4 MF Fabio Firmani 5 MF Cristian Brocchi 6 MF Ousmane Dabo 8 MF Francelino Matuzalem (on loan from Zaragoza) 10 FW Mauro Zárate (on loan from Al-Sadd) 11 MF Stefano Mauri 13 DF Sebastiano Siviglia 14 GK Tommaso Berni 16 DF Alessandro Tuia (from youth team) 17 MF Pasquale Foggia 18 FW Tommaso Rocchi 19 FW Goran Pandev 20 FW Libor Kozák (from youth team)

No. Position Player 21 FW Simone Inzaghi 22 DF David Rozehnal 23 MF Mourad Meghni 24 MF Cristian Ledesma 25 DF Emílson Sánchez Cribari 29 DF Lorenzo De Silvestri 32 DF Ştefan Radu 49 MF Antonio Cinelli (from youth team) 68 MF Christian Manfredini 81 FW Simone Del Nero 86 GK Fernando Muslera 87 DF Mobido Diakité 89 GK Vincent Degré (from youth team) 90 FW Ettore Mendicino (from youth team) 91 DF Marco Davide Faraoni (from youth team)

Out on loan

No. Position Player DF Riccardo Bonetto (at Livorno) DF Luciano Zauri (at Fiorentina) 26 FW Stephen Makinwa (at Chievo)

No. Position Player DF Federico Chirico (at Aversa) MF Roberto Baronio (at Brescia) 7 DF Manuel Belleri (on loan to Bologna)

Notable players

Main article: List of S.S. Lazio players

For a list of all former and current Lazio players with a Wikipedia article, see Category:S.S. Lazio players.

Presidential history

Below is a complete presidential history of Lazio, from when the club was first founded until the present day.^[46]

Name Years Giuseppe Pedercini 1901–1904 Fortunato Ballerini 1904–1924 Giorgio Guglielmi 1924–1925 Gerardo Branca 1925–1926 Riccardo Barisonzo 1926–1927 Remo Zenobi 1927–1932 Alfredo Palmieri 1932–1933 Remo Zenobi 1933–1935 Eugenio Gualdi 1935–1938 Remo Zenobi 1938–1939 Andrea Ercoli 1939–1941

Name Years Giovanni Minotto 1941–1943 Andrea Ercoli 1945–1947 Renato Borniggia 1947–1948 Giovanni Mazzitelli 1948–1949 Remo Zenobi 1949–1953 Costantino Tessarolo 1953–1956 Leonardo Siliato 1956–1960 Massimo Giovannini 1960–1962 Ernesto Brivio 1962–1963 Angelo Miceli 1963–1965 Giorgio Vaccaro 1965–1966

Name Years Umberto Lenzini 1966–1980 Aldo Lenzini 1980–1981 Gian Chiaron Casoni 1981–1983 Giorgio Chinaglia 1983–1986 Gianmarco Calleri 1986–1992 Sergio Cragnotti 1992–1994 Dino Zoff 1994–1998 Sergio Cragnotti 1998–2003 Ugo Longo 2003–2004 Claudio Lotito 2004–present

Managerial history

Lazio have had many managers and head coaches throughout their history, below is a chronological list of them from when Serie A was changed into a league format, from 1929–30 onwards.^[47]

Name Nationality Years Pietro Piselli 1929–1930 Ferenc Molnar 1930–1931 Amilcar Barbuy 1931–1932 Karl Sturmer 1932–1934 Walter Alt 1934–1936 József Viola 1936–1939 Luigi Allemandi 1939 Géza Kertész 1939–1941 Ferenc Molnar 1941 Dino Canestri 1941 Alexander Popovich 1941–1945 Tony Cargnelli 1945–1948 Orlando Tognotti 1948–1949 Mario Sperone 1949–1951 Giuseppe Bigogno 1951–1953 Mario Sperone 1953–1954 Federico Allasio 1954–1955 George Raynor 1955 Roberto Copernico 1955 Luigi Ferrero 1955–1956 Roberto Copernico 1956 Luigi Ferrero 1956 Jesse Carver 1956–1957 Milovan Ćirić 1957–1958 Alfredo Monza 1958 Fulvio Bernardini 1958–1961 Enrico Flamini 1961 Jesse Carver 1961 Paolo Todeschini 1961–1962 Alfonso Ricciardi 1962 Carlo Facchini 1962–1963

Name Nationality Years Juan Carlos Lorenzo 1963–1964 Umberto Mannocci 1964–1967 Maino Neri 1967 Renato Gei 1967–1968 Roberto Lovati 1968 Juan Carlos Lorenzo 1968–1971 Tommaso Maestrelli 1971–1975 Giulio Corsini 1975–1976 Tommaso Maestrelli 1976 Luís Vinício 1976–1978 Roberto Lovati 1978–1980 Ilario Castagner 1980–1982 Roberto Clagluna 1982–1983 Juan Carlos Morrone 1983–1984 Paolo Carosi 1984–1985 Juan Carlos Lorenzo 1985 Giancarlo Oddi 1985 Roberto Lovati 1985 Luigi Simoni 1985–1986 Eugenio Fascetti 1986–1988 Giuseppe Materazzi 1988–1990 Dino Zoff 1990–1994 Zdeněk Zeman 1994–1997 Dino Zoff 1997 Sven-Göran Eriksson 1997–2001 Dino Zoff 2001–2002 Alberto Zaccheroni 2002 Roberto Mancini 2002–2004 Domenico Caso 2004 Giuseppe Papadopulo 2004–2005 Delio Rossi 2005–present

World Cup Winners

• Anfilogino Guarisi (Italy 1934)
• Silvio Piola (France 1938)
• Massimo Oddo (Germany 2006)
• Angelo Peruzzi (Germany 2006)

Lazio

Full name	Società Sportiva Lazio SpA
Nickname(s)	Biancocelesti (White and sky-blue) Aquilotti (Young Eagles) Le Aquile (The Eagles)
Founded	January 9, 1900
Ground	Stadio Olimpico Rome, Italy (Capacity: 72,700)
Chairman	Claudio Lotito
Head Coach	Delio Rossi
League	Serie A
2007–08	Serie A, 12th
Home colours Away colours Third colours
Current season