A Season With Verona

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Khvicha Kvaratskhelia enjoyed a stunning season for Napoli despite tailing off in the closing weeks. Photograph: Ciro de Luca/Reuters Manager of the season A clash of egos between Prandelli and Pastorello resulted in the coach being moved on that summer (what a different book Parks might have written had Prandelli’s contract been extended). Prandelli went on to achieve great success elsewhere, most notably with Fiorentina and the Italian national team, reaching the final of Euro 2012. Now 63, he is still remembered fondly for what he achieved in his two years in Verona, and in particular, for that unprecedented fifteen game unbeaten run. Under the leadership of coach Osvaldo Bagnoli, in 1982–83 the team secured a fourth-place in Serie A (its highest finish at the time) and even led the Serie A standings for a few weeks. The same season Hellas again reached the Coppa Italia final. After a 2–0 home victory, Hellas then travelled to Turin to play Juventus but were defeated 3–0 after extra time.

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The Torino manager, Ivan Juric, explaining how to stop Kvaratskhelia: “You just need to make the sign of the cross and hope it’s not his day.” Unlikeliest TikTok star Following the 2002 relegation to Serie B, team fortunes continued to slip throughout the decade. In the 2003–04 season Hellas Verona struggled in Serie B and spent most of the season fighting off an unthinkable relegation to Serie C1. Undeterred, the fans supported their team and a string of late season wins eventually warded off the danger. Over 5,000 of them followed Hellas to Como on the final day of the season to celebrate.

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During the 2015–16 season, Verona had not won a single match since the beginning of the campaign until the club edged Atalanta 2–1 on 3 February 2016 in a win at home; coming twenty-three games into the season. [8] Consequently, Verona were relegated from Serie A. [9] At the end of the 2001 season, Perotti passed to southern rivals Bari, where he spent two unremarkable seasons, followed by short spells at Empoli, Genoa and Livorno. After a career spanning five decades, Perotti’s days as a coach finally grounded to a halt in 2014. His record with Verona, promotion to Serie A in 1996, and dramatic salvation in 2001 ensure his place in the history books, but he never fully enjoyed the affection of the Curva.

Tim Parks, British novelist

Further disappointment followed in the 1983–84 season when the team again reached the Coppa Italia final, only to lose the Cup in the final minutes of the return match against defending Serie A champions Roma Cristiano Biraghi was helped by the inattention of everyone around him, but scoring from your own half pretty much guarantees you a place on this list. Juventus eventually received a 10-point deduction and finished seventh – without it they would have been fourth. Photograph: Alessandro Di Marco/EPA For the last few months Anglo-Italian novelist Tim Parks has been writing of his devotion to Italian football club Hellas Verona in The Guardian. In A Season with Verona we get a chance to read the full and absorbing narrative that lay behind those short snippets. Hellas Verona Football Club, commonly referred to as Hellas Verona or simply Verona, is a professional Italian football club based in Verona, Veneto, that currently plays in Serie A. The team won the Serie A Championship in the 1984–85 season.At the provincial clubs such as Verona, all supporters think that every facet of Italian politics and officialdom is against them. This goes way beyond the pitch: believing that they are considered to be the poor relations in life, they rally against power and money. It is ironic, therefore, that these resentful people can associate so freely with the players themselves, revering them as gods, oblivious to the fact that their heroes are earning money and gaining power that they can only dream of. Serie A, as it is structured today, began in 1929, when the Campionato Nazionale turned into a professional league. Still an amateur team, Hellas merged with two city rivals, Bentegodi and Scaligera, to form AC Verona. Hoping to build a first class contender for future years, the new team debuted in Serie B in 1929. It would take the gialloblu 28 years to finally achieve their goal. After first being promoted to Serie A for one season in 1957–58, in 1959, the team merged with another city rival (called Hellas) and commemorated its beginnings by changing its name to Hellas Verona AC. Find sources: "A Season with Verona"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( December 2009) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)