U.C. Sampdoria

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Sampdoria

Full name	Unione Calcio Sampdoria SpA
Nickname	Blucerchiati
Founded	1946
Ground	Stadio Luigi Ferraris, Genoa, Italy
Capacity	40,122
Chairman	Riccardo Garrone
Manager	Walter Alfredo Novellino
League	Serie A
2004-05	Serie A, 5th
Home colours 　 Away colours

U.C. Sampdoria is a football club based in Genoa, Italy. The club was formed in 1946 from the merger of two existing clubs, Sampierdarenese and Andrea Doria. Sampdoria currently compete in the Italian Serie A and play their games at the Stadio Comunale Luigi Ferraris in Genoa. The team's colors are blue, white, red and black. Sampdoria plays at Stadio Luigi Ferraris, capacity 40,122, which it shares with Genoa's other club, Genoa 1893.

Sampdoria won the scudetto in 1991 and the Coppa Italia in 1985, 1988, 1989, and 1994. They also won the Cup Winners' Cup in 1990.

Former notable players include Roberto Mancini, Gianluca Pagliuca, Gianluca Vialli, Walter Zenga, Juan Sebastián Verón, Sinisa Mihajlovic, Jurgen Klinsmann, Srecko Katanec, David Platt, Graeme Souness and Hans-Peter Briegel.

Current first team squad

As of March 2005

1 Missing image Flag_of_Italy.png Italian Luigi Turci 2 Missing image Flag_of_Italy.png Italian Ivan Artipoli 4 Missing image Flag_of_Italy.png Italian Sergio Volpi 5 Missing image Flag_of_Italy.png Italian Moris Carrozzieri 6 Missing image Flag_of_Italy.png Italian Andrea Cittadino 8 Mark Edusei 9 Missing image Flag_of_Italy.png Italian Simone Inzaghi 10 Missing image Flag_of_Italy.png Italian Francesco Flachi 12 Missing image Flag_of_Italy.png Italian Daniele Padelli 13 Missing image Belarus-flag-1995.png Belarus Vitali Kutuzov 14 Missing image Flag_of_Italy.png Italian Marcello Castellini 16 Missing image Flag_of_Italy.png Italian Danilo Soddimo 17 Missing image Flag_of_Italy.png Italian Angelo Palombo 18 Missing image Flag_of_Italy.png Italian Sebastiano Zane 19 Missing image Flag_of_Italy.png Italian Giulio Falcone 20 Missing image Flag_of_Italy.png Italian Fausto Rossini

21 Missing image Flag_of_Italy.png Italian Francesco Antonioli 22 Missing image Flag_of_Italy.png Italian Max Tonetto 23 Missing image Flag_of_Italy.png Italian Aimo Diana 26 Missing image Flag_of_Italy.png Italian Marco Pisano 27 Missing image Flag_of_Italy.png Italian Cristiano Doni 32 Missing image Flag_of_Italy.png Italian Simone Pavan 46 Missing image Flag_of_Italy.png Italian Emanuele Bianchi 72 Missing image Flag_of_Italy.png Italian Stefano Sacchetti 75 Missing image Flag_of_Italy.png Italian Vincenzo Iacopino 77 Missing image Flag_of_Italy.png Italian Cristiano Zenoni 81 Missing image Flag_of_Italy.png Italian Andrea Gasbarroni 86 Missing image Flag_of_Italy.png Italian Mattia Roselli -- Missing image Flag_of_Italy.png Italian Lamberto Zauli -- Missing image Flag_of_Italy.png Italian Fabio Borrello -- Missing image Flag_of_Italy.png Italian Luigi Sala

External link

• Sampdoria's official website (http://www.sampdoria.it/)

Serie A

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