Parma Associazione Calcio | The Crusaders

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Club Information

Club Name: Parma Football Club

Nicknames: The Crusaders

Location: Parma,Italy

Manager: Pasquale Marino

Rivals: Juventus

Stadium: Stadio Ennio Tardini

Founded: 27 July 1913

Club History

Founding Years

The club was founded in July 1913 as Verdi Football Club in honour of famous opera composer Giuseppe Verdi, who was born in the province of Parma, adopting its unique white shirts emblazoned with a black cross on the front. By December of the same year, the club had changed its name to Parma Football Club. Parma began playing league football during the 1919–20 season and launched plans to build a stadium – Stadio Ennio Tardini – for the club two years later. Parma became founder members of Serie B after finishing runners-up in the Prima Divisione in the 1928–29 season, where would remain for three years before being relegated and changing name to Associazione Sportiva Parma. In the 1935–36 season, Parma became founding members of Serie C, where they would remain until they secured a return to Serie B in 1943.

Italian football was then brought to a halt as World War II.

Following the restart of organised football, Parma enjoyed three years in Serie B, then split into two regional divisions, before again being relegated in 1948–49 to Serie C, where they would spend another five seasons before an eleven-year spell in Serie B.

Success with Scala

Scala's Parma secured a historic promotion in 1990 to Serie A, finishing fourth, Scala supplemented the squad that achieved promotion from Serie B with players like Tomas Brolin and Claudio Taffarel.

Parma ended ther first ever season in Serie A in sixth place, qualifying for the UEFA Cup, However, Parma exited the 1991–92 in the first round. The club had more success on the domestic front, finishing sixth in the league and prevailing in the Coppa Italia final after losing the away leg 1–0, but winning the second leg 2–0 at home. In 1992, Parma's squad was further improved by summer arrivals, which helped them to their first international triumph.

Recent Seasons

Cesare Prandelli was announced as the new man-in-charge in May 2002, but Parma continued to move on their top players and Parma slipped to defeat to Juventus in the 2002 Supercoppa Italiana, although the depleted squad did manage to finish above expectations in fifth place, Despite the sale of Mutu, injury to Adriano, Parmalat's financial meltdown and the insolvency of the club Parma again finished fifth.

Prandelli's departure as manager preceded the 2004–05 season as Parma recorded the lowest finish in Serie A.

Parma ended the following season in tenth, but the Calciopoli scandal meant re-classification to seventh and a UEFA Cup spot. Stefano Pioli was appointed manager as the 2006–07 season approached.

On 24 January 2007, Tommaso Ghirardi became the owner and president of Parma F.C
In February, second-bottom Parma fired head coach Pioli and replaced him with Claudio Ranieri who managed to avoid relegation to Serie B on the final day of the season and then resigned ,Parma again battled with relegation the following year and three different men – Domenico Di Carlo, Héctor Cúper and Andrea Manzo – took charge that season as Parma failed to preserve their Serie A status after eighteen years in the top flight.

Life in Serie B started badly under Luigi Cagni and he was replaced by Francesco Guidolin, who won promotion back to Serie A with a second-place finish. Parma managed to finish eighth on their return to Serie A in 2009–10, narrowly missing out on qualification for the Europa League. In the summer of 2010, head coach Guidolin left the club for Udinese, swapping jobs with Pasquale Marino.

Club Honours

DOMESTIC

Coppa Italia:
Winners (3): 1991–92, 1998–99, 2001–02
Runners-up (2): 1994–95, 2000–01

Supercoppa Italiana:
Winners (1): 1999
Runners-up (1): 1992, 1995, 2002

Serie A:
Runners-up (1): 1996–97

Serie B:
Runners-up (1): 2008–09

EUROPEAN

UEFA Cup:
Winners (2): 1994–95, 1998–99

European Super Cup:
Winners (1): 1993

UEFA Cup Winners' Cup:
Winners (1): 1992–93
Runners-up (1): 1993–94

MINOR

Prima Divisione:
Runners-up (1): 1928–29

Seconda Divisione:
Winners (1): 1924–25

Promozione:
Runners-up (1): 1919–20

Serie C:
Winners (4): 1953–54, 1972–73, 1983–84, 1985–86
Runners-up (2): 1942–43, 1978–79

Serie D:
Winners (1): 1969–70

Coppa delle Alpi:
Winners (1): 1960–61

Trofeo Birra Moretti:
Winners (1): 1999

Ciutat de Barcelona Trophy:
Winners (1): 2003

Trofeo Costa del Sol:
Runners-up (1): 2010

Club Stadium

Club Kits

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A.Mirante
N.Pavarini
S.Russo
A.Santurro

C.Zaccardo
M.Paci
A.lucarelli
L.Antonelli
G.Paletta
M.Gobi
H.Dellafiore - Loaned In
R.Feltscher
M.Pisano
Angelo
Vinicius
M.Contini - Loaned In
P.Castellini - Loaned Out
M.Rossi - Loaned Out
L.Tedeschi - Loaned Out
A.Rispoli - Loaned Out

A.Candreva - Loaned In
S.Marrone
F.Valiani
B.Dzemaili
Ze Eduardo
D.Galloppa
Danilo Pereira
F.Savi
L.Galassi
G.Paonessa - Loaned Out
R.Pasi - Loaned Out

S.Giovinco - Loaned In
V.Bojinov
Marques
A.Paloschi
H.Crespo
C.Lucarelli - Loaned Out

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Name: Pasquale Marino

D.O.B: July 13, 1962

P.O.B: Marsala, Italy

Playing Position: Midfielder

Current Club: Parma FC

Teams Managed:

1997–1999 Milazzo

1999–2000 Ragusa

2000–2002 Paternò

2002–2004 Foggia

2004–2005 Arezzo

2005–2007 Catania

2007–2009 Udinese

2010 Parma

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Pasquale Marino

"In Order To Achieve Board Objectives we Must as a Team Work Hard and Find Talents From other Parts of The Globe"

Marino also said earlier that he will be buying players in July/August

You May now post

p.s Anyone help me out with kits.

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Good luck mate, OP looking nice and clean so far.

As for the kits, have a look here the Parma kit might be on display, if it isn't your going to have to download a pack.

KIT LINK
Below

http://www.fm-base.co.uk/forum/f78/project-dummy-kits-t40585.html

Good luck mate, hope you do well.

thanks guys.

GL

Good luck with this

Good luck

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