2019-04-01 World Soccer

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LAZIO ROMA

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W

ith Italian football being

dominated by clubs from

the north of the country

• Juventus (36), Milan
  (18) and Internazionale (18) have been
  champions more often than anyone else


• the capital derby can be seen by the
  fans as a test of who best represents
  Rome’s chances of usurping the north.
  As far back as 1927 the city sought
  a club to challenge the north and this
  resulted in the merger of three teams
  (Roman, Alba-Audace and Fortitudo)
  to form AS Roma. Founded in 1900,
  SS Lazio were excluded from this
  amalgamation – and so began a
  bitter rivalry between the pair.
  Although Lazio fans were originally
  mostly middle-class citizens from

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Two teams, one ground and a shared dislike for each other; welcome to the Derby della Capitale

CLASSIC ENCOUNTERS

19 2 9

Dec 8

Rodolfo Volk scores the only

goal of the game as Roma win the first

derby. They go on to lose just one of their

first 13 meetings with Lazio.

19 9 8

Mar 8

Lazio beat Roma for the

fourth time in a season, their 2-0 win in

Serie A coming on the back of a 3-1 league

success earlier in the campaign and victory

in both legs of an Italian Cup quarter-final.

2013

May 26

Meeting in the Italian Cup

Final for the first time, Lazio triumph 1-0

with a goal from Senad Lulic.

2015

Jan 15

Francesco Totti, playing in his

40th derby, scores twice as Roma battle

back for a 2-2 draw.

2019

Mar 2

Lazio win the most

recent meeting 3-0, but Roma still hold

the upper hand with 71 victories, 53

defeats and 64 draws.

Parioli in the city’s northern district, and

Roma took up residence in the working-

class Testaccio neighbourhood, the pair

have shared the Stadio Olimpico since

1953. But calling the same ground home
      has done little to foster friendly relations
      between the two.
      The intensity of the derby is such that
      its history is littered with incidents such as
      Lazio’s Giorgio Chinaglia demanding
      his team-mates burn their shirts after
      a loss in the 1970s and Sergio Petrelli,
      who joined Lazio after playing for
      Roma, firing a gun from a balcony
      to scare off fans of his former club.
      Sadly, it has also led to tragedy,
      and in 1979 a Lazio fan died after he
      was hit by a flare fired by a Roma fan
      at the other end of the stadium.

FULVIO

BERNARDINI

● 1923-26;

(coach) 1958-60

● 19 2 8 - 3 9 ;

(coach) 1949-50

ATTILIO

FERRARIS

● 1927-34, 1938-39

● 19 3 4 - 3 6

ARNE

SELMOSSON

● 19 5 5 - 5 8

● 1958-61

LIONELLO

MANFREDONIA

● 1975-85

● 1987-89

SINISA

MIHAJLOVIC

● 1992-94

● 1998-2004

ALEKSANDAR

KOLAROV

● 2007-10

● 2017-present

Violence...Roma’s

Francesco Totti (left)

and Sinisa Mihajlovic

of Lazio during the

2004 derby, which

was abandoned

when fans rioted

Most recent...Daniel De Rossi
of Roma tackles Lazio’s Felipe
Caicedo in March this year

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