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Italian Football Championship \/ Northern League \/ Serie A:
<\/STRONG>Winners (9): 1897–98, 1898–99, 1899–00, 1901–02, 1902–03, 1903–04, 1914–15, 1922–23, 1923–24
Runners-up (8): 1900–01, 1904–05, 1912–13, 1913–14, 1921–22, 1924–25, 1927–28, 1929–30<\/P>

Italian Cup:
<\/STRONG>Winners: 1936–37
Runners-up: 1939–40<\/P>

Serie B:
<\/STRONG>Winners: 1934–35, 1952–53, 1961–62, 1972–73, 1975–76, 1988–89
Runners-up: 1980–81
Promoted: 2006–07<\/P>

Serie C \/ Serie C1:
<\/STRONG>Winners: 1970–71
Runners-up : 2005–06<\/P>

Mitropa Cup:
<\/STRONG>Runners-up: 1990<\/P>

Coppa delle Alpi:
<\/STRONG>Winners: 1962, 1964<\/P>

Anglo-Italian Cup:
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Genoa Cricket and Football Club, commonly referred to simply as Genoa, is a professional Italian football club based in the city of Genoa, Liguria. Although the athletics and cricket club was founded in 1893 by Englishmen as a British sporting club abroad, whose membership was allowed to British citizens exclusively; the footballing section of the club was opened in 1897 by James Richardson Spensley making it the oldest existing club of its kind in Italy.

During their long history, Genoa have won the Italian Football Championship nine times. Genoa's first title came at the inaugural championship in 1898 and their last was in 1923–24. They also won the Coppa Italia once. Historically, Genoa is the fourth most successful Italian club in terms of championships won.

This slew of early successes may lie at the origin of the love professed for the team by the godfather of Italian sports journalists Gianni Brera (1919–1992), who, despite having been born nowhere near Genoa, always declared himself a supporter of the team. Brera went as far as creating the nickname Vecchio Balordo (Old Fool or Cranky Old One) for Genoa.

The club has played its home games at the 36,536 capacity Stadio Luigi Ferraris since 1911. Since 1946, the ground has been shared with local rivals Sampdoria. Genoa has spent most of its post-war history going up and down between Serie A and Serie B, with also a brief spell in Serie C. After a long story of bad management and an alleged corruption-related scandal, Genoa is now back playing in Serie A, securing a UEFA Europa League placement at the end of the 2008–09 season.<\/P>","B850B84A81F37F05F4386A810BC6107CF078F37712465C6A":"1893-9-7","FBAF2B9B8402EC60":"36","8C36798E00E0D688B6705FB6F02CF010":"34","E0A04148ADEEA21E":"http:\/\/www.genoacfc.it","4406E48704A97D6900ACBB46602769C2":"135850000.00","66B628A331EE3B62":"26.50","D1518711AEB23972F2EDEC88D48D85B0":"

CLUB

<\/U>Manchester City EDS<\/STRONG>
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Patrick Vieira (born 23 June 1976) is a French professional football head coach and former player. He is the manager of Ligue 1 club Nice.

Considered one of the best players of his generation, Vieira began his career at Cannes in 1994, where several standout performances in his debut season garnered him a move to Serie A club Milan a year later. His single season in Italy was marred due to limited playing time, and he featured mainly for the reserve team. This allowed him to relocate to England, in order to join countryman Arsène Wenger at Arsenal, for a fee of £3.5 million in 1996.

During his nine-year stint in the Premier League, Vieira established himself as a dominating box-to-box midfielder, noted for his aggressive and highly competitive style of play, an attitude that also helped him excel as captain of the club from 2002 until his departure in 2005. He was named in the Premier League PFA Team of the Year for six consecutive years from 1999 to 2004. He helped Arsenal achieve a sustained period of success during his time at the club, where he lifted three FA Cups and three league titles, including one unbeaten. He then returned to Italy, playing for Juventus, but quickly departed after the club sustained relegation for their part in a match-fixing scandal. He then signed for Inter Milan, where he consecutively won four league titles, before featuring for Manchester City, where he won another FA Cup before retiring in 2011.

Vieira featured at senior level for much of his international career, representing France over a period of 12 years, where he also spent some part as captain. He played in the final in his nation's victorious campaign at the 1998 FIFA World Cup, and featured heavily as the team also won Euro 2000. Despite also playing a key role in the side that finished runners-up in the 2006 World Cup, Vieira was used sparingly by France in the latter stages of his career, and he retired from international competition in 2010, after amassing 107 appearances for the side.

Following retirement, Vieira transitioned into coaching, where he took charge of the academy at Manchester City in 2013. He would depart two years later, after signing for sister club New York City. His arrival in Major League Soccer (MLS) saw the team adopt a free-flowing, attacking, press-based system, which gained him many plaudits, and garnered him a move back to his homeland to manage Ligue 1 club Nice in 2018, marking his first managerial role in Europe.<\/P>","E45C1F715A41C4086A1A5DFF72C29C40":"36,599","2134628892B06B90":"Genoa CFC","411CCFA197052F93":"Genoa CFC","E6C7E9F1C9CF42CA43917444E7095BC4":"2024-11-20","e_index":9};