AS Roma

Roma
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Nama lengkap	Associazione Sportiva Roma; SpA
Julukan	Giallorossi (Yellow-red),; Magica (Magic)
Berdiri	January 1,1927
Stadion	Stadio Olimpico,; Rome, Italy; (Kapasitas: 82,307)
Ketua	Francesco Sensi
Manajer	Luciano Spalletti
Liga	Serie A
2004-05	Serie A, 8th
Kostum kandang	Kostum tandang

Associazione Sportiva Roma is an Italian football club based in Rome. Nicknamed the giallorossi, it plays in Serie A. Roma's home uniforms are dark red shirts with dark yellow borders, white shorts and black socks.

The emblem is the Capitoline she-wolf lactating twins, symbol of Rome, superimposed a bipartite golden-yellow over red shield; official colors are the same as those of Rome, red for imperial dignity, gold for the Christian God.

A.S. Roma was founded in July 1927. The city of Rome already had three teams in the Italian football league (Alba, Fortitudo and Lazio), however the Fascist regime wanted to merge the latter into one which the working classes could identify with, the biggest club Lazio considered very much a patrician club of the Roman social elite, and strong enough to challenge the traditional northern teams to reinforce Rome's image as regime capital for propaganda purposes. Lazio management refused to even discuss the matter, but Alba, Pro Roma, Fortitudo and Roman agreed to merge and thus Roma was founded. Roma was named after the city and with the red and yellow strip of the Roman club. The initial stadium was Motovelodromo Appio.

They took part in their first league in the 1929-30 season and won their first scudetto in the 1941-42 season. The second was won in the 1982-83 season and the third in 2000-01. They were runners-up in 1930-31, 1935-36, 1980-81, 1983-84, 1985-86, 2001-02 and 2003-04. They were relegated only once, at the end of the 1950-51 season, returning to Serie A the next season.

The club has won the Coppa Italia seven times: 1963-64, 1968-69, 1979-80, 1980-81, 1983-84, 1985-86, and 1990-91, the Supercoppa Italia in 2001, and the UEFA Cup (Fairs Cup) once in 1960-61, defeating Birmingham City.

In 1984, Roma lost the final match of the European Cup, played in Rome, against Liverpool F.C., after a penalty shootout.

The current stadium is the 82,307 seater Stadio Olimpico, which is shared with S.S. Lazio. The two teams compete against one another twice each year in the Rome derby, a major and emotional event in Italian football.

Current first team squad

As of January 2006

Catatan: Bendera menunjukkan tim nasional sesuai dengan peraturan FIFA. Pemain dapat memiliki lebih dari satu kewarganegaraan non-FIFA.


No.	Pos.	Negara	Pemain
1	GK	ITA	Gianluca Curci
2	DF	ITA	Christian Panucci
3	DF	ITA	Cesare Bovo
4	DF	GHA	Samuel Osei Kuffour
5	DF	FRA	Philippe Mexes
7	MF	HON	Edgar Álvarez (on loan from Peñarol)
8	MF	ITA	Alberto Aquilani
9	FW	ITA	Vincenzo Montella (vice-captain)
10	FW	ITA	Francesco Totti (captain)
11	MF	BRA	Rodrigo Taddei
13	DF	ROU	Cristian Chivu
14	MF	MAR	Houssine Kharja
15	MF	FRA	Olivier Dacourt
16	MF	ITA	Daniele De Rossi


No.	Pos.	Negara	Pemain
17	MF	ITA	Damiano Tommasi
20	MF	ITA	Simone Perrotta
21	GK	GRE	Dimitrios Eleftheropoulos
22	GK	ITA	Pietro Pipolo
24	DF	ITA	Luigi Sartor
25	DF	ARG	Leandro Damian Cufrè
26	FW	ITA	Alessio Cerci
28	MF	ITA	Aleandro Rosi
29	MF	ITA	Leandro Greco
30	MF	BRA	Mancini
32	GK	BRA	Doni
35	FW	ITA	Stefano Okaka Chuka
40	FW	COD	Shabani Nonda