Bertoldi, Luigi (1983). 80 anni di storia del Verona Calcio. Verona: Editoriale Bortolazzi-Stei. p.11. Records and statistics [ edit ] Club statistics [ edit ] The progress of Hellas Verona in the Italian football league structure since the first season of a unified Serie A (1929/30). European cups all-time statistics [ edit ] Competition

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In 1988, the team had their best international result when they reached the UEFA Cup quarterfinals with four victories and three draws. The decisive defeat came from German side Werder Bremen.After a three-year stay, their last stint in Serie A ended in grief in 2002. That season emerging international talents such as Adrian Mutu, Mauro Camoranesi, Alberto Gilardino, Martin Laursen, Massimo Oddo, Marco Cassetti and coach Alberto Malesani failed to capitalise on an excellent start and eventually dropped into fourth-to-last place for the first time all season on the final match day, enforcing relegation into Serie B. Lega Pro 1/B: i tabellini della 34.a giornata"[Lega Pro 1 / B: the scores of the 34th matchday] (in Italian). Data Sport. 9 May 2009. Archived from the original on 12 May 2010 . Retrieved 8 November 2010.

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Is Italy a united country, or a loose affiliation of warring states? Is Italian football a sport, or an ill-disguised protraction of ancient enmities? Maurizio Setti, the current president at Verona, has left the fans frustrated with his limited investment in the club. Some things never change. The mister In A Season with Verona, Tim Parks takes us through all aspects of football in Italy, and examines what it shows us about the national character. He captures very well the passion, the bravado, and the downright rudeness, though he occasionally stretches the truth - in line with the perceptions of many Italians themselves - as to the advantages that big teams, such as Juventus, Milan, Internazionale, Roma and Lazio, are given over their less illustrious adversaries. Historic stories of match-rigging and biased refereeing decisions have been passed down through generations of supporters of provincial teams such as Verona.Ademola Lookman thought he was just having some innocent fun when he mimed a pair of binoculars after scoring for Atalanta against Udinese: the gesture of a man looking. The referee, Daniele Doveri, convinced himself this was some form of dissent and punished the player with a booking. Most regrettable disrobing For the last few months Anglo-Italian novelist Tim Parks has been writing of his devotion to Italian football club Hellas Verona in The Guardian. In A Season with Verona we get a chance to read the full and absorbing narrative that lay behind those short snippets.

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Three European finalists, but not a single champion. A brilliant season for Italian club football ended in the most agonising way possible, with Roma, Fiorentina and Internazionale each carving out opportunities to win their respective competitions but none able to land a killer blow. Feelings of pride in performance crashed up against the overwhelming emptiness of knowing that, for many players and coaches, such opportunities come but once in a career. Find sources: "A Season with Verona"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( December 2009) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Following another summer transfer window in which several of the club's star players were sold to Serie A rivals, namely Zaccagni transferring to Lazio, Marco Silvestri to Udinese and Dimarco returning to Inter, the beginning of the 2021-22 season proved to be much more difficult for Verona, as Di Francesco was fired and replaced with Igor Tudor after just three matches, all of which were defeats. This poor early-season form had left the club at the bottom of the table. Under the guidance of Tudor, the team regains competitiveness obtaining in the next eight matches three wins – including victories with Lazio and Juventus – four draws and only one defeat. [17] Colours and badge [ edit ] Massimiliano Allegri completed a nice piece of symmetry this season. Photograph: Marcelo del Pozo/Reuters Craftiest appointment

Khvicha Kvaratskhelia enjoyed a stunning season for Napoli despite tailing off in the closing weeks. Photograph: Ciro de Luca/Reuters Manager of the season Success in the 1970s and 1980s [ edit ] Paolo Sirena scoring the first goal for Verona during a 5-3 victory over AC Milan on the last day of the 1972-73 Serie A season In 1919, following a return to activity after a four-year suspension of all football competition in Italy during World War I, the team merged with city rival Verona and changed its name to Hellas Verona. Between 1926 and 1929, the elite " Campionato Nazionale" assimilated the top sides from the various regional groups. Hellas Verona joined the privileged teams, yet struggled to remain competitive. Punch-drunk Verona fire Colomba". Football Italia. Channel 4. 8 October 2007. Archived from the original on 1 December 2007 . Retrieved 14 November 2007.

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I had the same affinity with the Sampdoria supporters, but could never really manage it at Juventus. Was this because I didn't play particularly well or because, at clubs like Juventus, the supporters are used to winning? Hard to pin down, yet the warmth shown by the provincials was much greater than that shown by the big club.

It was a fantastic time of my life and a fantastic experience that year when I travelled with the Brigate Gialloblùto all the games and barely did anything but live football and plan away games and make new friends and shout myself hoarse every week. I wouldn’t like to spoil it now with something that couldn’t catch that crazy energy.”