Brera Calcio

Brera Football Club is an Italian association football located in Milan, Lombardy. It currently plays in Prima Categoria. The team plays its home matches in Arena Civica stadium.[1][2]

Founded2000
GroundArena Civica,
Milan, Italy
Capacity35,000
ChairmanAlessandro Aleotti
ManagerAmedeo Mangone
LeaguePrima Categoria

Colours

Its colours are green and black.

History

Brera Football Club was founded in 2000 by the young publisher and journalist Alessandro Aleotti. The first manager appointed was former Inter and Sampdoria goalkeeper Walter Zenga.[3][4] The team played its matches in the newly reopened Arena Civica,[5] but was relegated from Serie D. In the season 2003/2004, through a partnership with the FIGC and Carcere di Opera (one of the biggest prisons in Milan and in Italy), Brera founded FreeOpera Brera, a team composed of detainees.[6] Allowed to take part to 2003/2004 Terza Categoria, the team won the championship and was promoted to Seconda Categoria. The initiative obtained a lot of praise and RAI talked about it in a "Sfide" episode.[7] In the season 2006/2007 Brera, under the leading of coach Noureddine Zekri, obtained its first promotion, beating Bresso in the playoff and gaining the right to take part to Promozione the following season. In the season 2011/2012, after temporarily ceasing the first team's activity, Brera took part to the Torneo di Viareggio under the name of Brera Emergence Gabon, a team composed of young Gabonian footballers. In the season 2014/2015 the team, with Andrea Mazza appointed as coach, won its first championship, getting promoted from Seconda Categoria to Prima Categoria. In January 2016, in collaboration with the Serbian Roma actress and activist Dijana Pavlovic, Brera started managing the Romani People football team.[8][9][10] From 2016/2017 Brera played in Eccellenza and Enzo Gambaro has been appointed as new coach. Due to a poor beginning of season, in October 2016 Enzo Gambaro has resigned and has been replaced with former Brera manager Andrea Mazza. The season ended with the team's relegation and Andrea Mazza's resignment. In July Andrea Valle was appointed as new coach. The 2017/2018 season saw some changes on the roster side, as it was mostly composed by young foreign players: the adaption to the league was hard and, despite some outstanding performances, the team eventually got relegated. On August 2018 Marco Resca was appointed as new coach of the team now facing the Prima Categoria division. After a promising start, the team went through some tough time and in March, after Resca's resignation, former AS Roma defender Amedeo Mangone came in as new coach and led the team so a smooth season ending. The following season, with former Brera legend Marco Nichetti in charge of the team, was affected by the Coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic which suspended the ongoing championship. In September 2020 Amedeo Mangone agreed on resuming his activity as Brera head coach.[11]


Notable managers

Notable players

Current squad

[12] 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 Jacopo Mancuso
2 DF  GAM Foday Jarju
3 DF  VEN Alfredo De Sousa
4 DF  ITA Massimo Michieli
5 DF  GAM Malang Tamba
6 MF  BOL Reny Valdivia
7 MF  PER Carlos Loayza
8 MF  GAM Abdoulie Thomas
9 FW  BOL Carlos Garcia
10 FW  ITA Alberto Paone (captain)
11 FW  GAM Mustapha Bah
12 GK  ECU Angelo Alvarado
No. Pos. Nation Player
13 DF  PER Leyther Cabrera
14 DF  MAR Abdellah Bellali
15 DF  GAM Sulayman Bah
16 FW  ITA Francesco Marchetti
17 DF  MLI Siby Abdramane
18 MF  GAM Ousman Sonko
19 MF  PER Nilson Olaya
20 MF  BOL Luigi Bocapine
21 MF  GUI Mohamed Cherif Camara

Current coaching, technical and administrative staff

Position[13]
PresidentAlessandro Aleotti
Head CoachAmedeo Mangone
Club ManagerLeonardo Aleotti
Assistant CoachGianfranco Cotrina

References

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