U.S. Cremonese

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Unione Sportiva Cremonese is an Italian football club, based in Cremona. The club was founded in 1903. Cremonese played the 2005/2006 season in Serie B, having won Serie C1/A the previous season. However, in the 2005/2006 Serie B campaign, Cremonese came out twenty-first, being therefore relegated to Serie C1 for the next season.

Their last appearance in Serie A was in 1996. The team's colors are red and gray. Cremonese won the Anglo-Italian Cup in 1993. Some of the famous players who played for Cremonese include Gianluca Vialli, Anders Limpar, Giuseppe Favalli, John Aloisi and Enrico Chiesa.

History

Cremonese was in Serie A in its first season (1929-30) but entered a long period of decline, languishing in the lower leagues before the late 1970s. By 1984 they had achieved promotion to Serie A, with one-year spells in 1984-85, 1989-90 and 1991-92.

Under Luigi Simoni, Cremonese returned to Serie A in 1993. With a side containing quality in the form of defenders Luigi Gualco and Corrado Verdelli, midfield playmaker Riccardo Maspero and forwards Andrea Tentoni and Matjaž Florijančič, Cremonese held their own in Serie A with a highly respectable 10th place finish in 1993-94 but would be relegated in 1996.

Relegation resulted in the decline of the club, plummeting to Serie C2 by 2000 before achieving successive promotions back to Serie B by 2005. Giovanni Dall'Igna, another defender from the Serie A years, has since returned to the club.

Current first team squad

As of 2008-01-19

Honours

• Serie C: 3

1935/36 (Girone B), 1941/42 (Girone B), 1976/77 (Girone A)

• Serie C1: 1

2004/05 (Girone A)

• Serie D: 1

1967/68 (Girone B)

• IV Serie: 1

1953/54 (Girone C)

• Anglo-Italian Cup

1992-93

• Primavera TIM Cup: 1

1986/87

Notable former players

Italians

• Gabriele Bongiorni
• Antonio Cabrini
• Paolo Castellini
• Enrico Chiesa
• Francesco Colonnese
• Giuseppe Favalli
• Marco Giandebiaggi
• Luigi Gualco
• Attilio Lombardo
• Dario Marcolin
• Riccardo Maspero
• Mauro Milanese
• Cesare Prandelli
• Michelangelo Rampulla
• Corrado Verdelli
• Gianluca Vialli
• Andrea Tentoni
• Luigi TurciForeigners
• John Mensah
• John Aloisi
• Rubén Da Silva
• Gustavo Dezotti
• Matjaž Florijančič
• Anders Limpar
• Marko Perović
• Sergio Zanetti

External links

• Official site
• An unofficial site

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