The Sicilian outfit, responsible for developing stars such as Paulo Dybala , Edinson Cavani and Javier Pastore early in their careers, will cease to exist after a Palermo court agreed to declare the club insolvent.
The club, officially named US Citta di Palermo, was originally founded back in and until , were a prominent Serie A team. Long-serving owner Maurizio Zamparini, renowned for firing and re-hiring coaches, sold his controlling stake in February to an Anglo-American fund and the club struggled to stay afloat after being relegated to Serie B. After failing to regain promotion back to the top flight, they were excluded from the league this summer due to financial irregularities.
They deserve, the fans and city, to be in Serie A. They are missed a lot. I think it's possible in the next three, four years that they join Serie A. Parma were a similar story — a great story in the s and then not good seasons. They failed and went to Serie D. Now they're playing very well in Serie A.
This is a good challenge for Palermo, to follow the same path as Parma. The mentality is very good. The city deserves Palermo in Serie A but it's true, next season, many clubs in Serie C stay for many years.
It's a difficult division. Then it's more easy to win Serie B and be more stable in Serie A. Serie C is not so easy but this is what they want. They need to invest — you look at Monza this season they invested a lot of money. Catania, three or four years in the same region in Sicily, they can't go up from Serie C. It's not the name that you win the league, but the team is more important than the name. I believe in the president. I know the general director because he was ours at the time, so I have a lot of confidence in these people.
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The Test and ODI team captain has dedicated the national award to her family. Home Sports. Stats Perform Stats Perform. If you go back a decade, Palermo had threatened to become a major force in Serie A football. Tags Stats Perform Football Sports. Outlook Newsletters Ent. AR Tired of the unceasing, ungainly internet entertainment updates? Tech in style The right tech that defines you. He did not know it yet but it was to be the start of a love affair in which he would become one of the most iconic players to wear the pink shirt of Palermo.
He started slowly in his first season scoring only eight goals , but his overall work ethic and willingness to sacrifice for the team made him popular with fans. He soon became vice-captain, and then eventually captain in His goalscoring also gathered pace and in the following the three campaigns he scored 42 times and provided 22 assists. He had found his spiritual home. Under the tyrannical reign of Maurizio Zamparini, who seemed to sack as many managers as Miccoli scored goals, he was a constant in the team.
Despite interest from Melbourne Victory, Miccoli wanted to stay with Palermo. He was only 34 and had a lot to offer. But he seemed to just fall off the radar and disappear into the night. He was released by the club but there was no grand fanfare. Where were the all tributes that were festooned on Alessandro del Piero when he left Juventus? Miccoli left the club quietly because of his connection to the the local Mafia.
I hung around with people who I thought would be real friends, but I was wrong. With Miccoli now without a club, it seemed that Italian football was ready to turn its back on him, but Lecce, who play in the third tier of Italian football, signed the striker last July. This being Italy, the romance had not died quite yet and here was Miccoli now returning home to his boyhood club. The new shirts were first worn in a match against Sir Thomas Lipton's crew team; the match ended in a win for Palermo.
From to the team played in red and yellow jerseys due to an imposition by the fascist regime of Benito Mussolini , red and yellow being the official colours of the municipality of Palermo. When the club was refounded in following a merger with "Juventina Palermo", they started dressing light blue shirt on the pitch, switching to the more popular pink and black one year later.
Another club with these colors is the first division club Sport Boys in Peru. The stadium was opened in , during the fascist regime, with the name "Stadio Littorio" Lictorial Stadium. The inaugural match was played on January 24, , against Atalanta ; Palermo won it In , it was renamed "Stadio Michele Marrone", after a fascist hero who died in the Spanish civil war.
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