Italian Serie A - Teams 2009/10
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Fiorentina
| Name: ACF Fiorentina League: Serie A Location: Florence, Italy Nickname: Viola Founded: 1926 Team Colours - Home: purple/white - Away: white Joined the League: 1939 Manager: Cesare Prandelli Stadium: Stadio Artemio Franchi Club Honours Serie A: 1955–56; 1968–69 Coppa Italia: 1939–40; 1960–61; 1965–66; 1974–75; 1995–96; 2000–01 Supercoppa Italia: 1996 UEFA Champions Runners up: 1956–57 UEFA Super Cup runners up: 1956–57 UEFA Cup Winners Cup: 1960–61 |
Since 1926, the AFC has always been around the elite upper Italian leagues.
To become a class A team, they hired foreign players, specially from South America and the formula has worked perfectly.
Viola has lost class player Luca Toni to Bayern Munich, but his going away has been filled with the arrival of new signing Christian Viera, who should link up well with current players Mutu and Pazzini.
Season 07-08 were good for Viola fans. Fiorentina, guided by great presentations from key players like Gamberini , Frey, Montolivo and Mutu, ended the season in 4th place, gaining Champions League qualification for the first time after many years.
For the Serie A 2008-09 season, La Viola qualified for the UEFA Champions League, eight years after of its last time.
Fiorentina Current Squad
| No. | Pos | Player | No. | Pos | Player |
| 1 | GK | Sébastien Frey | 22 | MF | Zdravko Kuzmanović |
| 2 | DF | Per Krøldrup | 23 | DF | Manuel Pasqual |
| 3 | DF | Dario Dainelli (captain) | 24 | MF | Mario Alberto Santana |
| 4 | MF | Marco Donadel | 25 | DF | Gianluca Comotto |
| 5 | DF | Alessandro Gamberini | 27 | FW | Samuel Di Carmine |
| 6 | DF | Juan Manuel Vargas | 31 | GK | Tommaso Scuffia |
| 7 | MF | Franco Semioli | 32 | MF | Marco Marchionni |
| 8 | FW | Stevan Jovetić | 35 | GK | Vlada Avramov |
| 9 | FW | José Ignacio Castillo | 42 | DF | Andrea Bagnai |
| 10 | FW | Adrian Mutu | 43 | DF | Ramzi Aya |
| 11 | FW | Alberto Gilardino | 44 | DF | Michele Camporese |
| 13 | FW | Papa Waigo | 45 | MF | Federico Carraro |
| 14 | DF | Cesare Natali | 46 | FW | Pietro Iemmello |
| 15 | MF | Cristiano Zanetti | 47 | MF | Giacomo Lepri |
| 17 | MF | Francesco Di Tacchio | 48 | DF | Federico Masi |
| 18 | MF | Riccardo Montolivo | 54 | DF | Manuel da Costa |
| 19 | MF | Massimo Gobbi | 90 | GK | Andrea Seculin |
| 20 | MF | Martin Jørgensen (vice-captain) | – | MF | Nikola Gulan |
| 21 | FW | Khouma Babacar | |||