Lazio's Amazing Season

The years following the championship are dotted with innumerable adventures and misfortunes, lack of participation in the Champions League for incidents in the field and in the stands in the international competition last year with Ipswich to the disease and then death of Maestrelli, from the start Chinaglia of the United States for the tragedy of Luciano Re Cecconi (faked a robbery in a jewelry store with a friend ..), the Football Betting that broke the cycle of gold at the death of Lazio fan in the stands Paparelli, difficulties to return to set up the play-offs increased to avoid the series C, because the second episode of football betting. But are all these "tests" that have cemented the relationship with the fans biancoceleste and love among the hottest in Europe.

After difficult years arrives before Gian Marco Calleri, president of the team returned to Serie A, the gruff and legendary coach Eugenio Fascetti: Calleri is to reassess the corporate coffers and then to sell Cragnotti.
With Sergio Cragnotti, Roman, Lazio fan, the story will change.

Lazio suffered to reach historic milestones: five consecutive UEFA qualifiers, coming a second time (season 1994/95), third twice (1993/94 and 1995/96 season), once the fourth (season 1996/97) and once fifth (season 1992/93). Captain Beppe Signori, in five seasons he has won 3 top scorer.


In the 1997/98 season, with the arrival of new coach Sven Goran Eriksson and champions such as Mancini, Jugovic and Almeyda, Lazio finally comes back to win: it won the Italian Cup in front of his public April 29, 1998, race two against Milan. Eriksson's team also touches the Uefa Cup, losing only in the final in Paris defeat by Inter.


The following season saw the arrival of other great players such as Vieri, Salas, Mihajlovic, Dejan Stankovic and the second trophy that goes to enrich a few months after the Board of the Company. Defeated 2-1 in Turin, Juventus, Lazio won the Supercup (Trophy up for grabs between the winner of the Italian Cup and the Championship).

Listed on the Milan Stock Exchange in May 1998, the Company Sportiva Lazio SpA soon became a great reality in Italy and abroad. Lazio also won the last edition of the Cup Winners Cup in Birmingham beating Real Mallorca 2-1 at the end of a thrilling season during which long sections at the top of Serie A, losing the shield to a point at 'final day.
Arrives in the meantime the new 1999/2000 season, the Centenary. Lazio is full of new standards: Despite the departure of the reinforcements Vieri respond to the names of Veron, Sensini, Simon and Simone Inzaghi. Later in December, will also directly Fabrizio Ravanelli dall'Olimpyque Marseille.
Ready and e Lazio still triumphs in Europe: August 27, in the wonderful scenery of Monte Carlo, Eriksson's men win the UEFA Super Cup against Manchester United, winner of the Champions League 1998/99.
The festivities begin January 9, 2000, with a wonderful party at the Stadio Olimpico. During a difficult season, intense and exciting, Lazio compete until the end on all three fronts where it is committed. It wins two out of three.
Stop right there on the road triumph in the Champions League quarter-final of Claudio Lopez from Valencia, Lazio wins the final day of their second championship in its history. After a crazy day, with Juventus, which lost to Perugia a game because of a downpour was likely to be interrupted at the end of the first half and Lazio, after the victory over Reggina, with 80 thousand fans must wait another 45 minutes before screaming: CHAMPIONS OF ITALY!

Three days later against Inter Milan at Lazio also won the Italian Cup thanks to a 0-0 victory that added to the offers of going 2-1 for the third trophy of the season.

Season 2000 - 2001 of the Italian champions begins officially on September 8, 2000 with another great victory. Eriksson's Lazio won the Super League by beating Inter at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome for 4 to 3. This is highlighted in the last two purchases Cragnotti era: Hernan Crespo and Claudio Lopez. This is the seventh win in three years of Eriksson's Lazio and Cragnotti.
During the season against Lazio change the coach after three and a half years of triumphs and Mr. Lazio, Eriksson decided in mutual agreement to leave as good friends. On his 101 th birthday, the Company biancoceleste in the middle of a wonderful party and moving between the ovation greeted thousands of supporters of the coach eyes ice but with a heart of gold and welcomes another great character: Dino Zoff declaring that a man-Lazio stops on the role as Vice President, among other things, just worn, and accepts the responsibility to lead the team. The team led by Dino Zoff in the same year ranked third in qualifying for the Champions League.
In the 2002-2003 season back in Biancoceleste Roberto Mancini, this time as a coach who picks up a group eager for redemption. Economic problems, however, and there only through the hard work of the new group took over the family company Cragnotti, forced to leave the helm of the company to the shareholder banks, due to a default of its food companies, Lazio can be reborn. Mancini and his team, the knockout in the Champions League and Uefa Cup final touch. In the second year of the bench, Mancini finally wins a trophy. Despite the economic difficulties do not leave companies biancoceleste, forcing the team to do without, in mid-season in Conceição and Stankovic, Mancini's boys won the Italian Cup TIM 2003-04. After the removal of Modena, Parma and Milan (Milan won 2-1 at Olympic Stadium and 4-0) beat the other finalist Juventus Lazio 2-0 at home and 2-2 at the Delle Alpi E 'May 12 2004 and, thirty years after the first championship, Lazio won the Italian Cup fourth of its history.
Also this time with great satisfaction following the misfortunes and this time the Lazio risk arrest, but is saved again by the love of his people that buys shares in mass market and especially in mass pours into the streets shouting for attention to the situation Capitoline society.