U.S. Triestina Calcio 1918

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Triestina
US Triestina Logo.png
Full nameUnione Sportiva Triestina Calcio 1918 S.r.l.
Nickname(s)L'Unione (The Union)
Gli Alabardati (The Halberded)
I Giuliani (The Julians)
Founded1918
GroundStadio Nereo Rocco,
Trieste, Italy
Capacity24,500
ChairmanMario Biasin
ManagerCristian Bucchi
LeagueSerie C Group A
2020–21Serie C Group B, 6th of 20
WebsiteClub website
Away colours

Unione Sportiva Triestina Calcio 1918, commonly referred to as Triestina, is an Italian football club based in Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia. Originally founded in 1918, the club folded and was re-established several times in its history. As of the 2019–20 season, it plays in Serie C, the third tier of Italian football.

History[]

From the foundation to Serie A[]

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 B) 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 coach 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[1] 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.

Nereo Rocco, legend of Trieste's football, played for Triestina in the 1930s and trained the squad in the post–World War II era

The club were successively 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.[citation needed] 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.

The first refoundation in 1994[]

In 1994, the team was forced to fold, because of financial insolvency, and was re-founded by Giorgio Del Sabato. The team restarted as U.S. Triestina Calcio 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 .

In the 2005–06 season, Triestina changed its manager five times. The list include the tandem Alessandro Calori-, Pietro Vierchowod, caretaker , youth team coach Vittorio Russo and Andrea Agostinelli.

In addition, Triestina's owner 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 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 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, in the season 2010–11, after a disastrous campaign, Triestina was relegated from Serie B to Lega Pro Prima Divisione, having returned there in 2002 after 11 seasons in Serie C and Serie D.

2012: Relegation and bankruptcy[]

On January 25, 2012 the club in strong financial difficulty, has been declared bankrupt by the court of Trieste.[2][3][4]

In the season 2011–12 Triestina was relegated from Lega Pro Prima Divisione group B to Lega Pro Seconda Divisione.

On 19 June 2012 the club was finally declared bankrupt and the team was disbanded.[5]

Stefano Mario Fantinel, former chairman of the club, was suspended from football activities for 5 years after the prosecutor found accounting irregularities of the club.[6] In July, three more months were added due to player transfer irregularities.[7] Fantinel was also suspended for 3 months in 2006–07 Serie B, also causing the club 1 point, for irregularities on preparing quarterly management report on 30 March 2006.[8]

Unione Triestina 2012 / U.S. Triestina Calcio 1918[]

On 31 July 2012 was founded the new company Unione Triestina 2012 S.S.D.  a. r.l.[9] that restarted from Eccellenza thanks to Article 52 of N.O.I.F..[10] The sports title was later transferred to another "limited company in amateur sport" (Italian: Società Sportiva Dilettantistica a responsabilità limitata) U.S. Triestina Calcio 1918 s.s.d. a. r.l. in 2016.[11] After the promotion to Serie C on 4 August 2017,[12] the company dropped the legal suffix "amateur sport" from the name.

Colors and badge[]

The team's colours are red and white.

Honours[]

Winners: 1957–58
Winners: 1993–94

Divisional movements[]

Series Years Last Promotions Relegations
A 26 1958–59 - Decrease 2 (1957, 1959)
B 22 2010–11 Increase 1 (1958) Decrease 5 (1961, 1965, 1988, 1991, 2011)
C
+C2 		26
+6		 2020–21 Increase 4 (1962, 1983, , )
Increase 1 ()		 Decrease 4 (1971, 1974, 1994✟, 2012✟)
80 out of 89 years of professional football in Italy since 1929
D 8 2016–17 Increase 4 (, , , 2017) never
E 1 2012–13 Increase 1 (2013) never

Current squad[]

As of 12 July 2021

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Italy ITA Daniel Offredi
3 DF Italy ITA Davide Brivio
4 MF Portugal POR Aníbal Capela
6 DF Uruguay URU Wálter López
8 MF Italy ITA Federico Maracchi
9 FW Uruguay URU Pablo Granoche
12 GK Italy ITA Alex Valentini
13 DF Italy ITA Lorenzo Filippini
14 DF Italy ITA Francesco Rapisarda
15 DF Italy ITA Alessandro Ligi
16 DF Italy ITA Angelo Tartaglia
17 FW Italy ITA Andrea Procaccio
18 MF Italy ITA Giuseppe Rizzo
19 DF Italy ITA Franco Lepore
20 FW Italy ITA Vincenzo Sarno
No. Pos. Nation Player
21 FW Italy ITA Mirco Petrella
22 GK Italy ITA Raffaele Ioime
23 DF Slovenia SVN Andraž Struna
24 MF Italy ITA Daniele Giorico
25 FW Italy ITA Guido Gómez
27 MF Italy ITA Simone Calvano
32 FW Italy ITA Gianluca Litteri
33 GK Italy ITA Tommaso Rossi
44 MF Brazil BRA Paulinho
— DF Italy ITA Alessandro Giannò
— DF Italy ITA Alessandro Coppola
— DF Dominican Republic DOM Antonio Natalucci
— MF Italy ITA Leonardo Gatto
— MF Italy ITA Francesco Giorno (on loan from Alessandria)
— FW Italy ITA Alessio Di Massimo

Former managers[]

See also: Category:U.S. Triestina Calcio 1918 managers

References[]

  1. ^ http://www.sportmediaset.mediaset.it/calcio/calcio/articoli/75803/maldini-dispiace-vedere-cosi-la-triestina.shtml
  2. ^ http://www.sportmediaset.mediaset.it/calcio/legapro/articoli/75799/addio-alabarda-triestina-fallita.shtml
  3. ^ http://www.toronews.net/index.php?action=article&ID=25996
  4. ^ http://it.eurosport.yahoo.com/25012012/35/calcio-tribunale-civile-decretato-fallimento-d-0.html
  5. ^ http://www.calcioblog.it/post/25097/piacenza-e-triestina-ufficialmente-fallite
  6. ^ ""C.U. N°64/TFN – Sezione Disciplinare (2015–16)" (PDF). Tribunale Federale Nazionale – Sezione Disciplinare (in Italian). FIGC. 24 March 2016. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
  7. ^ "C.U. N°7/TFN – Sezione Disciplinare (2016–17)" (PDF). Tribunale Federale Nazionale – Sezione Disciplinare (in Italian). FIGC. 22 July 2016. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
  8. ^ "C.U. N°1 (2006–07)" (PDF) (in Italian). Lega Calcio. 1 July 2006. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
  9. ^ Written at Rome. "Costituita la nuova Triestina". L'Arena (in Italian). Verona. Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata (ANSA). 31 July 2012. Retrieved 26 September 2017.
  10. ^ http://ilpiccolo.gelocal.it/sport/2012/08/07/news/la-triestina-deve-ripartire-dall-eccellenza-regionale-1.5514572
  11. ^ "Comunicato Ufficiale N°394/A (2015–16)" (PDF) (Press release) (in Italian). Italian Football Federation (FIGC). 23 May 2016. Retrieved 26 September 2017.
  12. ^ "Lega Pro a 56 squadre. Ripescata la Triestina, respinte le domande di Rende e Rieti" (Press release) (in Italian). FIGC. 4 August 2017. Retrieved 4 August 2017.

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