A.C. Monza Brianza 1912

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Football club infobox
clubname = Monza


fullname = Associazione Calcio Monza
Brianza 1912 SpA
nickname = "Brianzoli", "Biancorossi" (White-Reds), "Bagai" (Boys, in dialect)
founded = 1912
ground = Stadio Brianteo, Monza, Italy
capacity = 18,568 | chairman = Giovanni Battisti Begnini
manager = Dario Marcolin
league = Lega Pro Prima Divisione - A
season = 2007-08
position = 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 Lega Pro Prima Divisione, 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.

History

Monza was created on September 1, 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 September 20, 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 competition; 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 June 4, 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 of 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 its existence, while two years after, on May 28, the president of "Simmenthal Monza" leaves an official notice in which it announces the abandonment of the group from the sponsor. On July 8th 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 approached 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 only 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.

In the 1972-73 season, a man who will become one of the more loved presidents of Monza, Giovanni Cappelletti, is hired. Cappelletti was a well-known industrial man and soccer player. A new era is born, led by Cappelletti and Italo Allodi, considered the prototype of the modern general manager. The field players are of high quality, but the mechanism jams in the demotion playoff. A trip to Bari ends in a 3 to 1 defeat on the last day, sentencing the Monza to the Serie C. Cappelletti does not throw in the towel and returns to lead the team again.

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.

Current squad

As of 4th July 2008

2008/09 Transfers

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Notable former coaches

*flagicon|Italy Annibale Frossi
*flagicon|Sweden Nils Liedholm
*flagicon|Italy Gigi Radice
*flagicon|Italy Nedo Sonetti

External links

* [http://www.acmonzabrianza.it/ Official site]