A.C. Monza Brianza 1912
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| Full name | Associazione Calcio Monza Brianza 1912 SpA |
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| Nickname(s) | Brianzoli, Biancorossi (White-Reds), Bagai (Boys, in dialect) |
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| Founded | 1912 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Stadio Brianteo, Monza, Italy (Capacity 18,568) |
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| Chairman | Giovanni Battisti Begnini | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Manager | Giovanni Pagliari | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| League | Serie C1/A | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2007-08 | Serie C1/A, 5th | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Associazione Calcio Monza Brianza 1912 is an Italian football club, based in Monza, Lombardy. The club was founded in 1912. Monza currently plays in Serie C1/A, having last been in Serie B in 2000. Monza spent the last few years in Serie C1 and Serie C2.
Notable former players include Christian Abbiati, Alessandro Costacurta, Patrice Evra, Zizi Roberts and Pierluigi Casiraghi, a native of Monza.
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[edit] History
Monza was created on 1 September 1912, from the merger of two clubs: Pro Monza and Pro Italia. The new club takes the name of Monza F.B.C. The club's first win came on 20 September 1912 against Juventus. The setting for the game was the "outside door" of Triante in Monza. Monza played many other friendly matches before playing in their first professional competion; the Colli’s Cup. Monza won the Cup with a score of 3 to 2, defeating FBC Saronno in the final. In the 1928/29 season, Monza adopts it's current colours, red and white.
In 1949, Monza’s president Giuseppe Borghi goes on a spending spree, bringing in twelve players of value. He also hired Annibale Frossi as manager, a member of the Italian squad during their victory at the 1936 Olympics. On 4 June 1951, a 1-0 victory allows their promotion to the Serie B and the supporters explode in unrestrainable and passionate enthusiasm.
During the difficult championship in the 1954/55 season bursts a managing crisis that puts Monza in the hands of Claudio Sada, owner of the A.C. Simmenthal. A.C. Monza joined with Simmenthal in 1956. In 1962 Monza celebrates fifty years of it's existance, while two years after, on 28 May, the president of Simmenthal Monza leaves an official notice in which it announces the abandonment of the group from the sponsor. On 8 July the mayor, Giovanni Centemero, asks Sada to stay and the president remains the guide for another year.
The sad summer of 1966 coincides with necessary rebuilding. The team is demoted to the Serie C after 19 years in the Serie B. The new players are younger, and with a fury of victories the team makes sure to regain promotion. In the final match against Como, the decisive game is played in Bergamo and Monza win on a goal by Maggioni. After one year they return to the Serie B.
In the 1969-70 season, Monza approach promotion to the Serie A under coach Gigi Radice. with two matches left, the biancorossi are within two points of promotion, behind Foggia, Catania and Varese. At the last game it is down to Varese and the brianzoli. A loss to Taranto seals Monza's fate. Monza is consoled with the numbers: 11 wins at home, 15 total, and only one defeat stood between them and promotion. Goalkeeper Luciano Castellini was beaten only 7 times at home and 19 goals against in the entire season.
From season 1972/73 arrives to the guide of the society one of the more loved presidents, Giovanni Cappelletti, well-known industrial man and soccer player. Born a spontaneous collaboration with Cappelletti and Italo Allodi, considered the prototype of the new generation of general manager. The park players is of first order, but the mechanism jams in the girone of return. The transfer to Bari and the defeat for 3 to 1 to the last day sentence the Monza to the demotion in serie C. Cappelletti does not throw the sponge and trace the line to a ready return between the cadets.
The Monza plays its first Italy's Cup of series C the 29June 1974 to the "Porta Elisa" of Lucca, against Lecce. It ends 1 to 0 with a goal of Di Somma and the trophy comes delivered in the hands of the red and white captain Anzolin. The Monza makes the bis in the edition 1974/1975, defeating the Sorrento the 29 June 1975. The trophy is decided by the rigors. It finishes 4 to 3 with decisive realization of Sanseverino. The following championship is one a real run wild. Monza wants to return in serie B and adjudicates the pass for the series cadetta with five turns of advance payment. The look is turned to the final of the Anglo-Italian's Cup. Adversary is the Wimbledon, club strongly physically, the Monza does not let to intimidate, and Casagrande firms the goal of the ko that worths the win of the prestigious trophy.
The 1976/77 season coincides with the first great illusion red and white. The Monza faces the B series with the label of "matriculation", but it will very soon become one of the protagonists, to the par of blasonate formations like the Vicenza of Paolo Rossi and the Cagliari of Virdis. The defeat for 2 to 1 suffered in Modena preclude of a breath the play-off with Atalanta, Cagliari and Pescara. To the Monza the lean consolation of the score remains previously record (48 points) never caught up between the cadets. The Obstinate mister Alfredo Magni, reconfirmed to the guide, in the 1978/79 maintains the Monza in the high quarters of classifies; an incredible one "harakiri" to the "Sada" in the match against Lecce (0-1) prevents to the Monza the promotion directed in Serie A. Pescara trip up the Monza to the third party place and obtain the access at the final match on the neutral stadium of Bologna. The abruzzesi supported from a tide of hooligan, approximately thirty thousand, strike the biancorossi. It was the last time that Monza and his supporter cherish a dream called Serie A.
Season 1980/81 marks the advent of Valentino Giambelli that takes over the presidency from Cappelletti. The Monza begins badly and ends worse: an irreversible crisis will carry it straight in the abyss of series C. After only one year, Monza returns in the serie B. The AC Monza to the penultimate day guarantees the return between the cadets storming Trieste. On the wings of the promotion it comes confirmed in park bench mister Franco Fontana, but the 82/83 season was a very hard championship with team like Milan and Lazio. The mathematical salvation only arrives to the last day with the 2 to 2 of Bologna. In the 1986/87 there is space for the champions of the future: Alessandro Costacurta and Pierluigi Casiraghi. With Piero Frosio like mister, the Monza finds the return in serie B in the 87/88. Brianzoli unstoppable: they center the promotion and they conquer also the third Italy's Cup of Serie C. In the delirium of the "Sada" Palermo inchina for 2 to 1. The end is also the last match played in the old stadium. The following year the Monza is moved in the newest Brianteo stadium.
[edit] Current squad
As of 12th January 2008
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[edit] 2007/08 Transfers
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GK | Pierluigi Brivio (from Mantova) | |
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MF | Massimo Brambilla (from Mantova) | |
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GK | Andrea Ferrari (from Atalanta) | |
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DF | Giovanni Bartolucci (from AC Siena) | |
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DF | Marco Taccucci (from Venezia) | |
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FW | Pietro Arcidiacono (from Empoli) | |
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FW | Michele Tarallo (from Padova) | |
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MF | Yuri Brevario (from Chievo Verona) | |
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MF | Koici Armando Tschang (from Mong Koi) | |
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FW | Alessandro Mosca (from Youth Team) | |
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MF | Alessandro Bettega (from Juventus) | |
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DF | Marcus (from AC Milan) | |
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DF | Marco Teani (from Cisco Roma) | |
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MF | Luca Giunchi (from Grosseto) | |
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FW | Federico Gerardi (from Udinese) |
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MF | Laurent Kwembeke (loaned to Caravaggio) | |
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GK | Fabio Carrara (loaned to Caravaggio) | |
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GK | Emanuele Concetti (Crotone) | |
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FW | Marco Guidone (loaned to Melfi) | |
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DF | Christian Campi (Lecco) | |
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FW | Alberto Bertolini (Lucchese) | |
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MF | Andrea Gentile (Messina (loan ended)) | |
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MF | Filippo Savi (Parma (loan ended)) | |
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GK | Ivano Rotoli (Spezia (loan ended)) | |
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FW | Diogo Tavares (Genoa (loan ended)) | |
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DF | Fabiano Medina da Silva (Lecce) |
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DF | Simone Puleo (Avellino) | |
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MF | Luca Giunchi (Viterbese) |
[edit] Notable former players
[edit] Notable former coaches
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