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Line 1: {{Football club infobox \| '''Azov''' is a town in the [[Rostov Oblast]] of the [[Russian Federation]], situated on the [[Don River]] just 4 miles from the [[Sea of Azov]], which derives its name from the town. Its population is 81,700 (2002). Azov's geographical ___location is {{coor dm\|47\|5\|N\|39\|28\|E\|}}. clubname = S.S. Lazio \| image = [[Image:Ss_lazio.gif\|150px\|logo]] \| fullname = Società Sportiva Lazio<br>1900 SpA \| nickname = ''Biancocelesti'' \| founded = [[1900]] \| ground = [[Stadio Olimpico]],<br/>[[Rome]], [[Italy]] \| capacity = 82,656 \| chairman = [[Claudio Lotito]] \| manager = [[Delio Rossi]] \| league = [[Serie A]] \| season = 2004-05 \| position = [[Serie A]], 10th \| pattern_la1=\|pattern_b1=_thinwhitesides\|pattern_ra1=\| leftarm1=7EC9E4\|body1=7EC9E4\|rightarm1=7EC9E4\|shorts1=FFFFFF\|socks1=FFFFFF\| pattern_la2=\|pattern_b2=\|pattern_ra2=\| leftarm2=FFFFFF\|body2=FFFFFF\|rightarm2=FFFFFF\|shorts2=7EC9E4\|socks2=7EC9E4\| }} '''S.S. Lazio''' ([[Italian language\|Italian]]: ''Società Sportiva Lazio SpA'') is an [[Italy\|Italian]] [[football (soccer)\|football]] club based in [[Rome]]. They are known as the ''biancocelesti''. They play in light blue shirts, with white shorts and socks. ~~== Early settlements in the vicinity ==~~ The club was founded on January 9th 1900 as Società Podistica Lazio. The name Lazio was taken from the Latin word "Latium", that means "wide", meeting the aim of the founders to symbolize something that includes Rome, but which is not limited to Rome (in fact, Lazio is the name of [[Latium\|the region where Rome lies]]). The sky blue and white strip colours were inspired by the [[Greece\|Greek]] flag and the country which gave birth to Olympic tradition. At the very beginning of its history, the club ran a number of different sporting activities and, from 1902, the club started the football section. ~~[[Image:tana_cornaro.gif\|right\|Tomb of Tana's Venetian consul]]~~ The mouth of the Don River has always been an important commercial centre. At the start of the 3rd century BC the Greeks from the [[Cimmerian Bosporus\|Kingdom of Bosporus]] founded a colony here, which they called [[Tanais]] (after the Greek name of the river). Several centuries later the settlement was burnt down by king Poleumon of Bosporus. The introduction of Greek colonists restored its prosperity, but the [[Goths]] practically annihilated it in the 3rd century AD. The [http://www.dainst.org/test/de/tanais2g.jpg site of ancient Tanais], now occupied by Nedvigovka village, has been excavated since the mid-19th century. The club did not join the [[Italian Football League\|league]] competition until 1913. They made the national decider a number of times but lost, often heavily - 9-1 on aggregate to Casale in 1914 and 6-1 on aggregate to [[Genoa 1893]] in 1923. In the 10th century, the area passed under control of the Slavic princedom of [[Tmutarakan]]. The [[Kypchaks]], seizing the area in [[1067]], renamed it ''azak'' (i.e., lowlands), from which appelation the modern name is derived. The [[Golden Horde]] claimed most of the coast in the 13th and 14th centuries, but the [[Venetian]] and [[Genoese]] merchants were granted permission to settle on the site of modern-day Azov and founded there a [[colony]] which they called Tana. The Turks put an end to its prosperity in [[1471]], when they seized the area and built a strong fortress of Azov. The club played in the first [[Serie A]], but their highest pre-war finish was second in 1937. Post-war the club continued to fail in the league, but did win the [[Coppa Italia]] in 1958. However, they had to wait until 1974 for their first ''scudetto''. ~~==Fortress of Azov==~~ However, when [[Sergio Cragnotti]] became president of the club, he was prepared to invest long-term in new players for the club. In 1993 Lazio finished fifth in Serie A, fourth in 1994, second in 1995, third in 1996, and fourth again in 1997 before winning the ''scudetto'' for the second time in 2000 with [[Sven-Göran Eriksson]] (1997-2001) as manager. They had Coppa Italia victories in 1998, 2000 and 2004 and they also won the last UEFA [[Cup Winners' Cup]] in 1999. ~~[[Image:azov.jpg\|thumb\|250px\|A 17th-centuty Dutch engraving representing the Battle of Azov (1696)]]~~ In what is known as one of the more legendary pages of Cossack history, the [[Don Cossacks]] captured the fortress with its Turkish garrisson of 4000 soldiers and 200 cannons in the summer of [[1637]] and held it for 5 years. In June 1641 they withstood a long siege by an [[Ottoman]] army. In 1642, when the Turks retreated, the Tsar summoned a popular assembly, or [[Zemsky Sobor]], which decided to surrender the fortress in order to avoid the full-scale war with Turkey. Before leaving the castle, the Cossacks annihilated all the fortifications. But after a financial scandal which invested Cragnotti and his foodstuff multinational [[Cirio]], Lazio was controlled in 2004 by a bank pool, in order to be sold to enterpreneur [[Claudio Lotito]], who is the current team owner. The new season for Lazio brought away several strong team players, who were sold to make up the big deficit that regarded the team, which is quoted at the ''Piazza Affari'' Italian stock market. During this summer, former 36-year old Lazio star [[Paolo Di Canio]] accepted to join his favourite team one more time, giving up a much more worthwhile contract from his previous team [[Charlton Athletic F.C.\|Charlton Athletic]]. The town, however, had yet to pass through many vicissitudes. During the so-called [[Azov campaigns]] (1696), [[Peter the Great]] managed to recover the fortress but the disastrous [[Pruth Campaign]] constrained him to hand it back to the Turks in [[1711]]. A humorous description of the events is featured in [[Voltaire]]'s ''[[Candide]]''. During the [[Russo-Turkish War, 1768-74\|Great Russo-Turkish War]] it was taken by the army under [[Rumyantsev\|Count Rumyantsev]] and finally ceded to Russia under the terms of [[Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainarji]] (1774). For 7 years Azov was a capital of a separate government but, with the growth of neighbouring [[Rostov-on-the-Don]], gradually declined in importance. The club plays at the 82,656 seater Stadio Olimpico, shared with [[A.S. Roma]]. The two teams play one another each year in the [[Rome derby]], a fiery, emotional match often marked with tension and fights in the stands. The two clubs have a history of rivalry; in the 2003 season an unprecedented event occurred when the [[A.S. Roma\|Roma]] [[Ultras]] forced the game to be suspended after false rumours spread around the stadium that a child had been killed by the police prior to the beginning of the game. In the current 2004/2005 season, Lazio won the first leg of the derby 3-1, while the second leg was a 0-0 draw. ~~==External link==~~ [http://sunsite.berkeley.edu:8085/x-ussr/100k/L-37-031.jpg Soviet topographic map 1:100,000] Famous Lazio players include [[Alen Bokšić]], [[Giorgio Chinaglia]], [[Paul Gascoigne]], [[Silvio Piola]], [[Giuseppe Signori]], [[Pavel Nedvěd]], [[Juan Sebastián Verón]], [[Paolo Di Canio]], [[Jaap Stam]], [[Angelo Peruzzi]], [[Hernán Crespo]], [[Dino Baggio]], [[Roberto Mancini]], [[Christian Vieri]] and [[Alessandro Nesta]]. ~~== See also ==~~ [[Tanais]] * [[Azov campaigns]] ==First team squad== ~~[[Category:Cities and towns in Russia]]~~ {\| ~~[[Category:Crimean Khanate]]~~ \|valign="top"\| ~~[[Category:Don Cossacks]]~~ '''Goalkeepers''' ~~[[Category:Ottoman Empire]]~~ 1 {{flagicon\|Italy}} [[Angelo Peruzzi]] ~~[[de:Asow]]~~ 32 {{flagicon\|Italy}} [[Marco Ballotta]] ~~[[hu:Azov]]~~ 33 {{flagicon\|Italy}} [[Matteo Sereni]] ~~[[ja:アゾフ]]~~ '''Defenders''' ~~[[nl:Azov]]~~ 2 {{flagicon\|Italy}} [[Guglielmo Stendardo]] ~~[[os:Азов]]~~ 5 {{flagicon\|Italy}} [[Felice Piccolo]] ~~[[ru:Азов]]~~ 7 {{flagicon\|Italy}} [[Manuel Belleri]] ~~[[tr:Azak]]~~ 8 {{flagicon\|Italy}} [[Luciano Zauri]] 13 {{flagicon\|Italy}} [[Sebastiano Siviglia]] 16 {{flagicon\|Italy}} [[Andrea Giallombardo]] 22 {{flagicon\|Italy}} [[Massimo Oddo]] 25 {{flagicon\|Brazil}} [[Emilson Sanchez Cribari\|Cribari]] \|valign="top"\| '''Midfielders''' 3 {{flagicon\|Italy}} [[Roberto Baronio]] 4 {{flagicon\|Italy}} [[Fabio Firmani]] 6 {{flagicon\|France}} [[Ousmane Dabo]] 10 {{flagicon\|Brazil}} [[César Rodríguez Aparecido\|Fucking Bitch]] 20 {{flagicon\|Italy}} [[Fabio Liverani]] 31 {{flagicon\|Denmark}} [[Christian Keller]] 68 {{flagicon\|Italy}} [[Christian Manfredini]] 85 {{flagicon\|Switzerland}} [[Valon Behrami]] TBD {{flagicon\|Belgium}} [[Gaby Mudingayi]] \|width="50"\|  \|valign="top"\| '''Attackers''' 9 {{flagicon\|Italy}} [[Paolo Di Canio]] 17 {{flagicon\|Albania}} [[Igli Tare]] 18 {{flagicon\|Italy}} [[Tommaso Rocchi]] 19 {{flagicon\|Macedonia}} [[Goran Pandev]] 21 {{flagicon\|Italy}} [[Simone Inzaghi]] \|} ==Team honors== Italian Champions '''2''' 1973/74 1999/00 [[Coppa Italia\|Italian Cup]] '''4''' 1958 1997/98 1999/00 2003/04 Italian SuperCup '''1''' 1998 UEFA [[Cup Winners' Cup]] '''1''' 1998/99 [[European Super Cup]] '''1''' 1999 ==External links== ''[http://www.sslazio.it/ Official site]'' (in [[Italian language\|Italian]]) [http://www.lazionet.net Lazio.net Community] (Ass. Cult. Lazio.net) [http://www.fcitalia.com/lazio/news/newslazio.htm SS Lazio News] (FC Italia, in Italian) [http://www.laziofever.com LazioFever] The International site in English language about Lazio *[http://www.franciabiancoceleste.com Francia Biancoceleste] (Ultras Lazio, in french) {{Serie A}} [[Category:Italian football clubs\|Lazio]] [[Category:Rome\|Lazio S.S.]] [[cs:SS Lazio]] [[da:S.S. Lazio]] [[de:Lazio Rom]] [[es:SS Lazio]] [[fr:SS Lazio]] [[it:Società Sportiva Lazio]] [[he:אס אס לאציו]] [[nl:SS Lazio]] [[ja:SSラツィオ]] [[pl:Lazio Rzym]] [[ru:Лацио Рим (футбольный клуб)]] [[sv:SS Lazio]]

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