Virtus Verona

The club was founded in 1921 as Unione Sportiva Virtus Borgo Venezia.

Virtus Verona, the third football club in Verona behind Chievo and Hellas Verona, is a unique case in Italy of a club whose chairman, Luigi Fresco, had also been the head coach of the first team for over 38 years, since 1982, after the other historic president Sinibaldo Nocini, who was in charge for 20 years. The club is also notable for being the only Italian professional football team to field a reserve team in the regional amateur divisions.

The club was promoted into professionalism for its first time ever at the end of the 2012–13 season, after winning the national playoff tournament in which they were qualified as fourth-placed in the Girone C of Serie D. At the end of the 2017–18 season, the club return into professionalism, in Serie C, the third tier of Italian soccer.

The social colours are red and blue, traditionally arranged in vertical stripes.

The club’s historical badge is an ancile red palate, closed externally by a white crown, suitable to contain the social name (sometimes written in abbreviated form).

In 2014 this badge was replaced by a shield, in which the corporate name is simplified in Associazione Virtus Verona: the first and third words are placed in the palate field, while the second (colored red) is placed in a curved white band placed in a shield.

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  The bage since 2014.

As of 1 April 2022

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  ITA Alessandro Giacomel 3 DF  ITA Francesco Mazzolo 4 MF  ITA Stefano Cella (on loan from Cremonese) 5 DF  ITA Luca Munaretti (on loan from Cremonese) 6 DF  ITA Manuel Daffara 7 MF  ITA Nicola Danieli 8 MF  ITA Mattia De Rigo (on loan from Virtus Entella) 9 FW  MAR Rachid Arma 10 FW  ITA Domenico Danti 11 DF  ITA Gianni Manfrin 12 GK  ITA Michele Bragantini 13 FW  ITA Edoardo Priore 14 MF  ITA Marco Amadio 15 MF  ITA Filippo Vesentini 16 MF  ISL Emil Hallfreðsson

No. Pos. Nation Player 17 MF  ITA Lorenzo Lonardi 18 MF  ITA Simone Tronchin (on loan from Vicenza) 21 DF  ITA Antonio Pinto 22 GK  GAM Sheikh Sibi 23 DF  ITA Filippo Pellacani 24 MF  ITA Antonio Metlika 25 DF  ITA Davide Zugaro (on loan from Inter Milan) 26 GK  ITA Andrea Bianchini 27 DF  ITA Carlo Faedo 28 FW  ITA Massimo Silvestri 31 FW  ITA Andrea Nalini 32 FW  ITA Mattia Marchi 91 FW  ITA Gianmarco Zigoni 99 MF  ITA Leonardo Zarpellon (on loan from Vicenza)

Virtus Verona supporters are known for their hardline anti-fascist and left-wing leanings. The group Virtus Fans created in 2006, was split up in 2015, from which 2 new groups emerged: Virtus Verona Rude Firm 1921 and the Lost Boys. The Virtus Verona Rude Firm 1921 have friendships with antifa supporters groups all over the world: Livorno Calcio, Cosenza Calcio, Wrexham, Olympique Marseille, FC St. Pauli, RSV Goettingen 05.[3][4]

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