Hall of Fame Viola
In 2011, the Museo Fiorentina created the Hall of Fame Viola – the first of its type for an Italian football team – in full agreement with ACF Fiorentina.
The Hall of Fame Viola was created to celebrate the glories that have made up the history of Fiorentina. With this prestigious award, the Museo Fiorentina makes the deeds of the great protagonists of Fiorentina history indelible over time, their reputation built thanks to their commitment and their passion.
Each year a new edition is held with a ceremony in which new members are welcomed into the Hall of Fame Viola. We look back and, appreciating our glorious past, we take forward this example for an even better future.
The Museo Fiorentina and ACF Fiorentina wish to celebrate those men and women who have pulled on the purple shirt and worked hard for it. We want to show them and their families that they have not been forgotten and that they will be rewarded for their commitment and love towards our colors and the city of Florence.
With the Hall of Fame Viola, many young people who wear or represent the purple shirt with honour can see the example of those who came before them.
The winners receive the Marzocco Viola award, a statuette designed for the Museo Florentina by the artist Marco Cantini and made by the silversmith Federico Sassoli. The Hall of Fame Viola stands out from any other in the world to illustrate those who enter it not only with simple photos, but also with admirable portraits made by master Claudio Sacchi, star pupil of Pietro Annigoni.
The Hall of Fame Viola was created to honor the memory of those who preceded us, as we are convinced that remembering the protagonists of Fiorentina’s history is equivalent to telling the story of each one of us.
Behind every victory there are not only the champions who enjoy the limelight, but also many silent proponents who worked every day to build Fiorentina’s history. The Hall of Fame Viola also and above all wants to tell their stories and thank the many people who contributed to writing the pages of the wonderful history of La Viola.
The portraits of the Hall of Fame Viola are made by the maester Claudio SACCHI.
Hall of Fame Viola
In 2011, the Museo Fiorentina created the Hall of Fame Viola – the first of its type for an Italian football team – in full agreement with ACF Fiorentina.
The Hall of Fame Viola was created to celebrate the glories that have made up the history of Fiorentina. With this prestigious award, the Museo Fiorentina makes the deeds of the great protagonists of Fiorentina history indelible over time, their reputation built thanks to their commitment and their passion.
Each year a new edition is held with a ceremony in which new members are welcomed into the Hall of Fame Viola. We look back and, appreciating our glorious past, we take forward this example for an even better future.
The Museo Fiorentina and ACF Fiorentina wish to celebrate those men and women who have pulled on the purple shirt and worked hard for it. We want to show them and their families that they have not been forgotten and that they will be rewarded for their commitment and love towards our colors and the city of Florence.
With the Hall of Fame Viola, many young people who wear or represent the purple shirt with honour can see the example of those who came before them.
The winners receive the Marzocco Viola award, a statuette designed for the Museo Florentina by the artist Marco Cantini and made by the silversmith Federico Sassoli. The Hall of Fame Viola stands out from any other in the world to illustrate those who enter it not only with simple photos, but also with admirable portraits made by master Claudio Sacchi, star pupil of Pietro Annigoni.
The Hall of Fame Viola was created to honor the memory of those who preceded us, as we are convinced that remembering the protagonists of Fiorentina’s history is equivalent to telling the story of each one of us.
Behind every victory there are not only the champions who enjoy the limelight, but also many silent proponents who worked every day to build Fiorentina’s history. The Hall of Fame Viola also and above all wants to tell their stories and thank the many people who contributed to writing the pages of the wonderful history of La Viola.
The portraits of the Hall of Fame Viola are made by the maester Claudio SACCHI.
ALBERTAZZI GIORGIO
An actor of undisputed genius, considered a master of the national theater, he is also a director, playwright and poet. With a degree in architecture, after the War he invested his talent and passion in the art of acting and made his debut under the direction of Luchino Visconti in a performance of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. Later, television, cinema and, above all, the theater elect him among the greatest Italian actors of all time. For Albertazzi, Fiorentina is a part of him, a special family member, a fixed point in his life, a faithful and irreplaceable companion of every Sunday.
Category “Ambassadors”
HoF 2014
ALBERTOSI Enrico
When he arrived at Fiorentina at age 19, he found the door barred by Giuliano Sarti. He managed to play for the national team before becoming a starter in Florence. He was a complete goalkeeper, very acrobatic, with a great basic technique and a remarkable sense of position. Ten seasons, winning five Cups, made it almost impossible to think of another goalkeeper between our posts. Yet, at the age of thirty, he was sold to Cagliari, in the very season in which we won the Scudetto. He did win two, in Sardinia and in Milan, and was the goalkeeper of the National team, World Cup runners-up in 1970 in Mexico, but he has always remained in the hearts of the Viola fans.
Category “Players”
HoF 2018
ANTOGNONI Giancarlo
His is the first name to enter in the Fiorentina Hall of Fame. His proclamation took place on the feast dedicated to him at the Mandela Forum on March 4, 2011. The love story that binds Florence and Antognoni is inextinguishable. Beyond his infinite records in viola, it is enough to remember his farewell match to football in a sold-out Stadio Comunale as if it were a challenge with Juventus, the historical enemy. When he left the pitch for the last time, greeted by the last applause, Giancarlo Antognoni entered directly into the legend of Fiorentina and Italian football. In Viola from 1972 to 1987, Giancarlo holds the absolute record of appearances for a Fiorentina player in official matches (429), in Serie A (341), and in the national team (73). For everyone, he is the Fiorentina number ten par excellence, our Captain!
Category “Players”
HoF 2012
ARTUSI Luciano
He is an antique Florentine, like those who on February 17, 1530 played the famous football match in Piazza Santa Croce in mockery of the troops of Emperor Charles V who were besieging Florence. Historian and successful writer, he has been part of the Historical Parade of the Florentine Republic since 1951, for 64 years, and was its Director for 55 years. His vocal salute became a chant in the Curva Fiesole. All of Fiorentina’s most important victories enjoyed the celebrations organized by him through the union between the tradition of ancient Florentine football with English football, and Fiorentina’s Viola.
Category “Ambassadors”
HoF 2015
ASTORI Davide
A footballer, “as a hobby”, as he liked to define himself, does not get to play 14 matches with the national team and to be the captain of his own team. For Davide, football was not a pastime, but a profession interpreted with the utmost seriousness and humanity. He was one of the truest and most positive players in football, shunning the excesses and sensationalism. His number 13 shirt will be that of the captain of Fiorentina forever.
Category “Players”
HoF 2018
BACCANI Alberto
In 1956 he was the protagonist, together with Galluzzi first and Scagliotti later, of the first FIGC Young Footballers Training Unit. When the Federation left the Nuclei to the clubs he was the founder and president of the Viola Young Footballers Center who kept the trained kids together. Only two years later, Fiorentina decided to absorb young players and coaches at no cost. Since then “the professor”, a great cartoonist, specialized in rehabilitating injured footballers from Gonfiantini to Chiarugi, from Brizi to Desolati, from Amarildo to Antognoni up to his masterpiece: Roberto Baggio. We welcome Professor Alberto Baccani’s entry into the Hall of Fame.
Category “Managers”
HoF 2023
BACCANI Ottavio
In Ridolfi’s Fiorentina he was a player, manager, secretary, director, and, when needed, a coach. He was the organizational cornerstone of the decision to grow the players from within the club, and he was the theorist of the choice of the “WM”, the “system” that led to the victory of the 1940 Coppa Italia. During the war and the German invasion, he saved the Viola heritage and, immediately after the Liberation, he was the protagonist of the rebirth, along with Paganelli and Banchieri. After his work ended, he remained a partner of Fiorentina and was the first director and secretary of the Federal Technical Center of Coverciano – from 1958 to 1968, when he had to surrender to illness.
Category “Executives”
HoF 2018
BAGLINI Nello
The President, who created the second Fiorentina masterpiece, made pragmatism and prudence his winning weapon. He has always been a Viola fan, and in six years as the head of the club, he won a Coppa Italia, a Mitropa Cup, and a Scudetto that no one would ever have predicted. His idea of starting from the roots to make them grow, mature and bloom was the recipe for an unexpected and well-deserved success. Fiorentina ye-ye was his masterpiece. Alongside the tricolor of Enrico Befani, there is the magnificent one of Nello Baglini.
Category “Executives”
HoF 2014
BANDINI Italo
Known as “Aldo”, a Florentine in Fiorentina. In addition to being an excellent player in the pioneering Fiorentina, between 1926 and 1930, he represents the first great biographer of our club. His precious and precise annotations on the back of many beautiful images of the mid-twenties, have allowed the Museo Fiorentina to unravel many mysteries and uncover many truths. Our eternal thanks go to him for his activity as a footballer and for his passionate reporting.
Category “Players”
HoF 2013
BATISTUTA Gabriel Omar
One of the biggest Viola stars ever to come from Argentina and, in nine years, he became the greatest striker in the world. Everyone wanted him, but only we had him, every Sunday in front of our own eyes. Always growling at the ball and always running towards the flag to machine-gun the opponents. His numbers with Fiorentina are impressive: 207 goals in 333 matches. But even more impressive was, for those lucky enough to witness him in his playing days, the determination with which he sought the goal and every Sunday he found it. The instigator of the Viola in the victories of the Coppa Italia and the Italian Supercoppa 1996. Make way for the roar of the Lion King.
Category “Players”
HoF 2014
BEATRICE Bruno
A life as a midfielder.
You ran up and down the pitch to take the ball away from your opponents and intercept their passes.
Having arrived at Fiorentina in the summer of 1973, you were the right man to help the team grow, the “Mastino” it needed.
Up and down non-stop, every day, without respite, until groin pain stopped you.
For some, a footballer should never stop, like a machine, he must be squeezed and put back on the field immediately, his health is not important…
Bruno is “treated” with a therapy based on Roentgen rays, to accelerate his competitive recovery.
An enormous quantity of rays, repeated with a frequency and intensity too high to be tolerated.
The player is put back on the pitch, but the man’s health is terribly compromised.
Beatrice will continue to play for a few years but her fate is sealed.
Bruno died on 16 December 1987, at just 39 years old, from acute lymphoblastic leukemia, leaving his wife Gabriella and two young children Alessandro and Claudia.
Bruno Beatrice, winner of the 1975 Italian Cup and the Italian-English League Cup with Fiorentina, is still, together with his entire family, waiting for the most important success: JUSTICE!
We welcome Bruno BEATRICE’s entry into the Viola Hall of Fame, Players Category!
Category “Players”
HoF 2024
BEFANI Enrico
He is the President of the victories. He transformed Fiorentina from an artisan football club to a club organized at the most avantgarde levels. After the conquest of the Coppa Italia by the Marquis Ridolfi, Befani brought to Florence, in his nine years of presidency, a Scudetto, a Grasshoppers Cup, and, while handing over to Longinotti, a Cup-Winners’ Cup, a Coppa Italia and plenty of quality football. The great Fiorentina of the 1950s owed trophies and a period of unprecedented technical superiority to its magnificent President. The trophy cabinet of those years is only missing a Champions Cup which would have further and deservedly rewarded him.
Category “Executives”
HoF 2013
BERNARDINI Fulvio
Victorious coach of the first Scudetto in 1955-56 and of the Grasshoppers Cup in 1957. A great expert and theorist of football, the “Doctor” knew how to build and lead that magnificent team that reminded Italian sportsmen of the “Grande Torino” and came close to the incredible feat of finishing a championship without defeat. Loved by the fans, under his wise leadership Fiorentina also reached the final of the Champions Cup in 1957.
Category “Coaches”
HoF 2012
BERTONI Daniel Ricardo
The “Puntero” of Bahia Blanca arrived in 1980 and, in Florence, to this day his name still brings back great emotions. He came from Seville, after Argentina’s 1978 World Cup victory, scoring in the final. So many shots, so much class! His skills set off the unmistakable chorus: “Praise to you, Daniel Bertoni” … Loved by the Ultras, he returned to them, after the clashes with the Roman fans, the solidarity he had received in hard times. A football artist, one to whom Maradona himself left the free kick taking. He who won the title of Champion in the heart of the Florentines.
Category “Players”
HoF 2018
BIAGINI Stefano
A strong and robust boy from Prato with a big heart that beats for Fiorentina. Founder and soul of the first Viola Ultras, he is a charismatic leader known by all as “Pompa”. He was able to give an identity to the Curva Fiesole by teaching young people the importance of wearing purple colors with their heads held high in every part of the world, with pride and courage. It is thanks to him that the Curva Fiesole became the beating heart of the Viola support.
Category “Ambassadors”
HoF 2012
BONI Luigi
Born a year after Fiorentina because, he says, we had to wait for her. He grew up walking through Borgo Pinti to go to the stadium. After the war, the trips on coaches and cars of the time, journeys that became adventures, just to follow the team. The adventure then becomes joining the Fiorentina Council, the first of the Baglini management, to “settle the debts and fight for the Scudetto” and start the organization of the Viola Clubs. When the Viola Clubs Coordination Center Association was born in 1974, Gigi was its first president and remained so until 1986, when he resigned to defend the dignity of the Association.
Category “Ambassadors”
HoF 2018
BORGONOVO Stefano
The boy who drove the opposing defenses crazy together with Roberto Baggio at the turn of the eighties and nineties, has given way to an extraordinary man who has publicly faced his unspeakable suffering for the salvation and hope of many unfortunates. We will always remember him harpooning a ball into the box and seizing life in a wheelchair. The same smile, the same strength, the same heart. Stefano Borgonovo’s iron will is the best any of us could receive as a gift.
Category “Players”
HoF 2013
BRIZI Giuseppe
An example of loyalty and attachment to the purple jersey for fifteen years, from 1961 to 1976. He is one of the protagonists of the Fiorentina ye-ye that wins the second historic national title. An always elegant and never foul player, he was very skilled in relaunching a match. In Florence he won a Scudetto in 1968-69, the Coppa Italia twice (1966 and 1975), the Mitropa Cup in 1966 and an Anglo Italian Cup in 1976. An example for the youngest, an exemplary professional.
Category “Players”
HoF 2012
CARPANESI Sergio
Growing up in the team managed by his father, he had established himself as one of the best players of his generation. At the age of seventeen, all the observers of national football were emphasising his great talents. Fiorentina managed to secure him, snatching him away from stiff competition. After two years with the boys, the big leap, with his participation in the Abbadia San Salvatore retreat, the appreciation of Bernardini, the convocations in that team that did wonders, and the starting jersey with a goal in Ferrara: a long breakaway that began on Julinho’s feed and ended in the net with a strong angled shot.
He was the youngest player in the Fiorentina team that won Italy for the first time in 1955-56.
A national player in the youth and military teams, he also won, with the purple jersey, the 1952-57 Grasshoppers Cup and the 1959 Italian-French Friendship Cup.
An affair marked by mistakes on the football market took him far from Florence, where he later returned to live, but he still managed to win and convince.
He was a great player and an excellent coach; he is a polite and exquisite person who knows how to explain football.
In the purple jersey from 1955 to 1959 with 34 appearances and 1 goal.
Category “Players”
HoF 2022
CASTELLETTI Sergio
A great full-back, a protagonist of national football. Arriving in Florence at the age of twenty-one he chose the city and the football team, so much so that he cried at the time of his sale. Together with Robotti, he formed a full-back pairing which took up the legacy of Magnini and Cervato, in both the purple jersey and that of the national team. Sergio’s, with Fiorentina, is a palmarès of the highest value: a Cup-Winners’ Cup, a Mitropa Cup, two Coppa Italias, two hundred and sixty-two official appearances in Viola and seven with Italy. His love affair with Fiorentina continued by coaching the young players.
Category “Players”
HoF 2019
CERVATO Sergio
He was only nineteen when he arrived at Fiorentina. By the time he left us, he was thirty and was captain of the team. For our trophy cabinet he contributed to a Scudetto, a Grasshoppers Cup and the title of Vice-Champions of Champions Cup. 340 official matches, and over thirty goals, with the purple jersey, 25 appearances and 3 goals in the senior national team, of which he was also captain, make him a pillar of the Viola and national football history. The same ease with which he kicked the ball as a player, he used in teaching football and life to the boys of the Viola youth teams. Honour to the natural heir of the Grande Torino full-back Virgilio Maroso.
Category “Players”
HoF 2015
CHIAPPELLA Giuseppe
For eighteen years, without interruption, in Fiorentina: first as a player, then as coach. He made a decisive contribution to winning the first historic Scudetto in 1956 and is one of the cornerstones of the purple defensive wall that plays in the national team. A fighter, on the field, always attentive to his task and in supporting and guiding his teammates. As an assistant manager, he won both the Cup-Winners’ Cup and the Coppa Italia in 1961. As a coach he won the Coppa Italia and the Mitropa Cup in 1966, the year in which he was awarded the “Seminatore d’Oro”; he has the great merit of shaping the Fiorentina ye-ye who will win the second Scudetto in 1969. He returns to the Viola bench in February 1978 and leads the team to safety.
Category “Players”
HoF 2012
CHIARUGI Luciano
He represents every child’s dream that becomes reality: a childhood spent just thinking about the ball, all the youth teams of his club, on Sundays as a ball boy during the games of the senior side, with the dream, one day, of being there. Thanks to his tenacity and talent, that day arrives. And there are also many goals anticipated by many dribbles that drove the opposing defenders and us fans crazy. And a Scudetto also arrives. And the bench of that team also arrives: first the youth team and then, in difficult moments, the first. If Fiorentina calls, Luciano is always there. For this we love him.
Category “Players”
HoF 2015
CHIESA Enrico
He arrived in Florence already affirmed. After some initial difficulties, he conquered everyone with goals, with an extraordinary repertoire, which exalted and was celebrated by the public, accompanied by his best quality: the speed of execution. 45 goals in 86 games, between league and cups. It was the last big signing of Vittorio Cecchi Gori, protagonist of the Viola success in the 2001 Coppa Italia. A few months later, his serious injury took away the last weapon from Fiorentina to avoid the chasm that was opening up.
Category “Players”
HoF 2017
CIUFFI Mario
Who did not love Mario Ciuffi? That intrusive irony which accompanied every manifestation of his as a fan, represented in every way the polemical and perennially dissatisfied Florentine spirit with how things are going. Florentine to the core and Viola fan in every corner of his heart, he has pleasantly accompanied the pre and post-game in a unique and unrepeatable way. It was impossible not to love him: he managed to bring a smile even after a burning defeat. His cheerful passion has accompanied us for many years, his memory will accompany us forever.
Category “Ambassadors”
HoF 2013
CONTRATTO Renzo
Sweat, fatigue and dedication were his daily bread: if there was a dangerous opponent to be checked on sight, all the coaches who passed the Viola in his eight years always knew who to entrust him to. Under the grit and the skills of Renzo Contratto all the greatest of his time have passed: Maradona, Zico, Platini have discovered on their skin that in football one emerges thanks not only to talent, but also with the perseverance and daily seriousness of an extraordinary athlete. 288 official Fiorentina appearances, 4 appearances in the Olympic National team, 6 in the under 21: the right-back of the almost third Viola championship, Renzo Contratto.
Category “Players”
HoF 2014
CSAPKAY Károly
In the rare images that portray him, he is sometimes dressed as a Fiorentina athlete, while at others he is in plain clothes next to his players. The newborn Fiorentina of the distant 1926 needed a man capable of carrying out the task of technician but, jointly, so close to the field that his presence was felt not as authoritarian, but comradely. The first coach in red and white history did very well, growing the creation of the Marquis Ridolfi with self-denial and passion.
Category “Coaches”
HoF 2015
DE SISTI Giancarlo
Beloved player and coach. Arriving at Fiorentina very young in 1965, he gave geometry and wisdom for nine years, triumphing as Captain in the second Viola championship win. His football skills, accompanied by an exceptional professional seriousness, lead him to be a protagonist in the national team: European champion in 1968 and vice World champion in 1970. He returned to Florence as a coach, and we admired one of the most beautiful Fiorentina teams in history: that 1983-84 when only Antognoni’s injury denied the possible tricolor. The Scudetto missed on the last day in 1982 is the greatest regret of this formidable coach.
Category “Players”
HoF 2013
DESOLATI Claudio
Ten championships with the purple jersey, sealed by the victory of the 1974-75 Coppa Italia and the Italian-English League Cup in 1975, with appearances in all the national youth selections and the National Military Team.
Off the field he wore a long mackintosh with lapels turned up, which earned him the nickname ‘Humprey Bogart’ in the locker room.
On the pitch, he was a modern centre forward who played when the battering rams of the epic time of the ball still reigned.
In the Viola, he brought joy to the Curva Fiesole and racked up historic gems, such as knocking out the great Dino Zoff at only 17 years of age, or the technical platinum hat-trick against Inter: imperial header, bomb from outside, classy lob.
What a genius!
Gifted with superlative technique and elegance in his movements, strong in his acrobatics, he embodied the soul of Fiorentina as a whole, for the unfortunate struggle against destiny marked by injuries and the untamed lust for success.
He got less recognition than he would have deserved for the quality of the game he expressed at the time, but today he reaps all the love he got by always giving his all on the pitch for his Fiorentina.
In the purple jersey from 1971 to 1981 with 201 appearances and 58 goals.
Category “Players”
HoF 2022
DI LIVIO Angelo
He arrived in Florence amidst some grumbling, but Mario Ciuffi took care of getting everyone to agree with the secular rite of degobbization. We were waiting for a toy soldier and we found a captain. A man who gave everything on and off the pitch, trying to shield Fiorentina’s failure.
A true captain never abandons a sinking ship, Angelo moved from the 2002 World Cup to the Gualdo Tadino stadium, becoming the symbol of Fiorentina’s return to Serie A.
Winner of the 2001 Italian Cup, the 2003 C2 championship, the 2004 promotion play-off, we honor with honor the entry of Angelo Di Livio into the Viola Hall of Fame.
Category “Players”
HoF 2023
DUNGA Carlos
Placed in front of the defense, he received the ball or took it by harpooning it from the opponent’s feet and always sending it where it needed to go. When someone decided that his season in Florence was over, a dark shadow fell on the Fiorentina midfield, and without him on the pitch they were relegated. We remembered it on that night of the World Cup final in Pasadena, when Carlos the puppy lifted the World Cup in the face of Sacchi and his former partner Baggio: he was the strongest, the rest didn’t matter. A thousand battles, 122 appearances in the Fiorentina shirt and a mantra among the Viola fans, which will never end “we’re missing a Dunga …”
Category “Players”
HoF 2017
ESPOSITO Salvatore
The wisdom of Pandolfini and his collaborators brought him to Florence when he was just fourteen. He grew up in the Viola’s youth team, winning the 1966 Viareggio Tournament. He made his debut in the first team at 18, becoming one of the major protagonists of Fiorentina ye ye. Equipped with great tactical intelligence, inexhaustible running, excellent technique, he was the ideal complement to the Viola midfield. Having been sold too soon, he returned to Florence as a coach to develop the young Viola with whom he won the Viareggio Tournament in 1988.
We are honored to welcome the entry into the Viola Hall of Fame of Salvatore, “Ciccio”, Esposito, Italian Champion with Fiorentina 1968-69!
Category “Players”
HoF 2023
FANTAPPIÉ Rigoletto
The dean of Fiorentina fans. He was present as a child at the first official red and white match at the stadium in via Bellini in 1926. In the 1930s, he was part of the Order of the Marzocco, the first club of Fiorentina supporters. Maestro of the history and life of Fiorentina, of which he was a fan, organizer and manager of the supporter’s associations, member, councilor. Senator of the Museo Fiorentina.
Category “Ambassadors”
HoF 2012
FERRANTE Ugo
He was 18 when he arrived in Florence, with an already imposing physique, a suitcase full of hope and a smile that always managed to remain youthful. Those were the years in which Italian football was successful, and where it distinguished itself for one particular role: the libero. He was one of the greatest interpreters of that role, libero in the Fiorentina ye-ye, a stronghold of the defense in that extraordinary adventure. Champion of Italy 1968-69 and Vice-champion of the World, with the Italian national team in Mexico in 1970. A giant of Fiorentina history where, with full rights, there is also his hair, cut live on TV, on Domenica Sportiva on 11 May 1969 .
Category “Players”
HoF 2017
FRANCHI Artemio
He was the greatest director of Italian football. A Viola fan since childhood, he began his career as a manager among the referees and then in Fiorentina, of which he was secretary between 1949 and 1952. He always remained a member of Fiorentina, never failing to attend the assemblies. He reached the top of Italian, European and world football: he was president of the FIGC (twice); UEFA president; vice president of FIFA. With him, the Technical Center of Coverciano became the university of European football, the national team was champion of Europe in 1968, vice World champion in 1970, and champion in 1982.
Category “Executives”
HoF 2019
FREY Sébastien
He was twenty-five years old when he moved to Florence, already an established player, one of the best in Serie A in his role. Fiorentina, after the great fear of relegation experienced in the 2004-05 tournament, had great ambitions. Building the team also meant securing a great goalkeeper, a number one. He was chosen well. A goalkeeper who showed great performances, gained leadership in the group thanks to his personality and ability to take all the responsibility. A love, reciprocated, with the public and with the Fiesole that those bleached hairs made into a unique chorus. Magical European nights like with the decisive penalty parried at Goodison Park against Everton and the Champions League victory over Liverpool at Anfield Road, then abruptly interrupted in Munich only for Ovrebo’s incomprehensible refereeing. An exciting cycle, full of satisfaction, even if lacking in success.
A bitter farewell for everyone, his, after six years wearing our number 1 jersey, renewing the great tradition of the Gigliati goalkeepers and forever falling in love with the piazza and the city of Florence.
In the purple jersey from 2005 to 2011 with 218 appearances.
Category “Players”
HoF 2022
GALDIOLO Giancarlo
One of the few certainties for the Fiorentina coaches who were lucky enough to train him during the week and to field him on Sunday afternoon. Nobody ever gave up on Giancarlo’s solidity. Three hundred and fifteen official Viola matches place him close to the top ten in over ninety years of Fiorentina’s history. Three hundred and fifteen sweaty shirts, respected, honored and loved. Ten Serie A championships, with the victory of the 1975 Coppa Italia and the Anglo Italian Cup of the same year. If you were here now you would say you didn’t deserve so much. For all of us, you don’t deserve so little.
Category “Players”
HoF 2018
GALLI Giovanni
The debut in the first team came at the most difficult moment, with the abyss of relegation already wide open, but with that boy the Viola goal was in good firm hands, and Fiorentina were saved. Giovanni Galli, World Champion and Vice-Champion of Italy in 1982, was the worthy heir to the great number ones that preceded him: Griffanti, Costagliola, Sarti, Albertosi, Superchi. He became the goalkeeper with the most Serie A appearances in Fiorentina’s goal. Several times as a director of the club, the burden of rebuilding the team fell to him in 2002.
Category “Players”
HoF 2013
GERMOGLI Roberto
His newspaper, “La Nazione”, which he joined at the age of 17 in 1958, hailed him as an “artist of the image”. He has immortalized the protagonists of the Fiorentina story in their technical and human gestures for about 60 years. The shot of a great photographer is like the touch of a great footballer: everyone understands by looking at his photos. This was Roberto’s art, which began in a time when there was no television or internet, and the story of the matches, seen only by those who went to the stadium, had to be accompanied by photo chronicles.
Category “Ambassadors”
HoF 2019
GRATTON Guido
Fulvio Bernardini wanted him in his team at all costs, transforming an attacking midfielder into a complete midfielder who made the fortune of the great Fiorentina of the 1950s. He was one of those always present in the successes, in the four second places, in the Madrid final, in the victory of the Grasshoppers Cup. With his teammates he was a protagonist in viola and in the national team. Painter, coach, tennis teacher, who came from Friuli and chose to remain and live here where, unfortunately, he was barbarically killed.
We pay homage to the Italian Champion Guido Gratton by joyfully greeting his entry into the Viola Hall of Fame.
Category “Players”
HoF 2023
GRAZIANI Francesco
His purchase was the sign of the renewed Fiorentina ambition: you buy the center forward of the national team, you want to win the Scudetto. In Florence he was immediately perceived as “one of the family”. One who, together with Pecci and Bertoni, reacted to the great fear for Giancarlo by loading the team on his shoulders. “Ciccio” the center forward of the third championship, the one denied by the referees of Catanzaro and Cagliari. A complete striker, 1982 World Champion as a Viola player. When needed, he took over as team manager, right up to Avellino, to lead the team in a bitter UEFA Final already decided elsewhere.
Category “Players”
HoF 2019
HAMRIN Kurt Roland
His majesty the goal. The Swedish winger, nicknamed “Little Birdie” by the fans, is the player who has scored the most goals in official matches with the Fiorentina shirt. He wore the purple jersey for nine years, becoming captain. All the adjectives to describe his deeds are reductive. In Florence he won a Cup Winners’ Cup, a Mitropa Cup and a Coppa Italia. A Swede who loved Florence so much that he chose it as a residence even after the end of his career, a Florentine among the Florentines. Simply immense.
Category “Players”
HoF 2012
JULINHO
He is football. Bernardini understood this, seeing him play at the 1954 World Cup and looked to buy him. With the ball between his feet, football becomes art by embroidering feints, dribbles, assists and goals. Three wonderful years in Florence from 1955 to 1958 in which he wins a lot and comes close to winning everything: the Scudetto, the Grasshoppers Cup and the final of the Champions Cup, lost against the powerful Real Madrid. Julinho was the biggest world star to ever wear the Fiorentina jersey. 96 appearances and 23 goals represent the numerical spoils of a profound, very great and mutual love with the city of Florence that goes far beyond the statistics. Julinho!
Category “Players”
HoF 2013
MAGNINI Ardico
He dedicated eight years of power, acrobatics, advances and generosity to Fiorentina. A great athlete. He is the warrior of the tricolor, the one who intimidates his opponents with his physique and his determination without ever encroaching into incorrectness. Ardico’s career has been as extraordinary as only the career of a champion, studded with great sporting achievements: the 1955-56 Scudetto, the Grasshoppers Cup, the final of the European Cup lost in Madrid against Real, twenty appearances for the national team. Magnini is one of the everlasting champions, a team made up of great and inseparable friends who brought the first Scudetto to Florence.
Category “Players”
HoF 2013
MANTOVANI Carlino
Those who recounted a football match in the twentieth century had to concentrate on the game’s actions, on the systems, on the athletes’ gestures and, at the same time, quickly write everything down in a notebook. The story of the match sprang from that ink and, reading those chronicles, it still seems to be present today. Those who practiced that trade had to have competence, balance and a spirit of analysis. No television, no radio: just a pen and a mountain of passion for his Fiorentina.
Category “Ambassadors”
HoF 2015
MARASCHI Mario
After many adventures as an offensive winger he arrived in Florence and began, for him and for us, a new time, that of Maraschi the bomber. He will be the new centre-forward: very strong legs, explosive, very clever tactically, perhaps unique in his ability to defend the ball and above all lethal and calculating when it came to hitting the net. 79 appearances and thirty-one goals with our shirt, 14 in the 1968-69 Scudetto year. The number nine who, along with his teammates, made fifteen thousand Viola hearts triumph in the Juventus stadium.
Category “Players”
HoF 2018
MASIERI Giampiero
His dry style reflects his Florentine character. For over five decades he has filled the news of our team with a wealth of memories and individual episodes that have made it a sort of encyclopedia of the history of the Club. From the very beginning he made his skills available to the Museo Fiorentina to selflessly donate all that he had experienced. He saw with his own eyes the greatest champions of Fiorentina and recounted them for all of us.
Category “Ambassadors”
HoF 2016
MAZZONI Mario
For Fiorentina, he was the same as a father for his own son: even the most daredevil knows that, in his hour of need, his father is there. This is what Mario was: in addition to raising many young Viola champions and winning countless trophies with his boys, he always answered when the first team needed his wisdom and experience. Thirty years in Fiorentina with the pearl of a Coppa Italia won in Rome in 1975 against all odds and of which he is, together with his boys, the real winner. Mario Mazzoni a life for Fiorentina.
Category “Coaches”
HoF 2014
MENCUCCI Sandro
Fiorentino, chartered accountant, until 2006 he held the position of Statutory Auditor of the Board of Auditors at F.I.G.C. and the Lega Nazionale Dilettanti and was, in his years of service for Fiorentina, the first CEO of the Della Valle era. In this role he won the national titles with the youth teams, and the victories in the Coppa Italia and Supercoppa with the Primavera team. President of Fiorentina Women, who historically won the Scudetto and the Coppa Italia in the 2016-17 season.
Category “Executives”
HoF 2017
MENTI Romeo
The deep friendship that binds the purple of Florence with the garnet red of Turin has the face of Romeo “Meo Menti”, formidable right winger of Fiorentina, Torino and the national team. An evil fate interrupted his life and that of other extraordinary champions, his companions, when he was only 30 years old. The terrible crash of May 4, 1949 took his life away, but not the Fiorentina pin that he proudly wore on his jacket collar and thanks to which his mangled body was immediately sadly recognized. A great man, a great champion, a great friend of Florence, Fiorentina and Torino.
Category “Players”
HoF 2016
MERLO Claudio
An old colourless image reminds us of him when he was very young, the face of a bratty child dressed in a suit and tie for his arrival in Florence in 1965. In eleven years at Fiorentina Claudio Merlo coloured that photograph purple and became a man wearing the clothes of the athlete. Eleven years of 367 battles fought on the front line, without ever retreating to the rear. A Scudetto, two Coppa Italias, a Mitropa Cup, an Anglo Italian Cup, a presence in the national team, eight in the under 23, but above all the concreteness of a great player with a sincerely purple heart.
Category “Players”
HoF 2014
MONDONICO Emiliano
A man who brought his humanity to the field and to the bench, together with his technical and tactical ability. A fan/coach who brought Fiorentina back to Serie A bringing enormous satisfaction. “Mondo” was a real Viola fan, complete with a card, since 1989, of one of the oldest and most loved Viola Clubs: the Settebello, a tribute to our great number 7’s: Julinho and Hamrin. In his career as a coach, and as a Viola fan, he brought out that humanity that until the end of his life he then used to help problematic kids, giving them the opportunity to express all the vitality they had inside
Category “Coaches”
HoF 2019
MONTUORI Miguel Ángel
The many fans who went to pick him up on his arrival at the Florence train station had never seen him play, but they trusted the intuition of the man that had recommended him: Father Volpi. No one could have imagined what the Argentine from Chile would have done in Italy: with his close friend Julinho he would upset the opposing defenses with his dribbles and unpredictable movements. At the height of his footballing maturity, the same game he played every day betrayed him with a violent blow, putting an end to his competitive career. A Scudetto, a Grasshoppers Cup, 12 matches wih the national team, third in the ranking of official Fiorentina scorers, with 84 goals.
Category “Players”
HoF 2016
MUTU Adrian
You had an impressive class destined to leave a profound mark on the football pitch.
We knew your enormous talent, but we feared your recklessness.
Our coach, Cesare Prandelli, who had convinced us with his work and wanted to bring Fiorentina back to the places they deserved, vouched for you.
He was also your coach, the one with whom you had definitively imposed yourself.
We listened to him, but we Florentines are wary and were waiting for you at the field test.
Your class silenced us and it was immediately love.
Goals, assists, goals, assists, and more goals!
Your genius, accompanied by the impertinence that distinguishes you and the theatricality of your greetings, won us over.
Just as you bowed after each of your goals in the farewell at the Curva Fiesole, today we bow in farewell to ‘The Phenomenon’ who will always have a special place in the hearts of all of Florence!
We welcome Adrian MUTU’s entry into the Viola Hall of Fame, Players Category!
Category “Players”
HoF 2024
ORZAN Alberto
The dream of every sporting director, of every coach: the total player, the one who covers every role and always does it with humility, dedication, courage and plenty of reliability. Alberto Orzan is all this and he is also the captain of the historic 1961 Cup Winners’ Cup victory, the first UEFA trophy to be won by an Italian team. In addition to the 1955-56 Scudetto, the 1957 Grasshoppers Cup and the 1961 Coppa Italia, Orzan ammassed between 1954 and 1963, 246 Fiorentina appearances overall, and four appearances in the senior national team.
Category “Players”
HoF 2013
PALOSCIA Raffaello
More than seventy years have passed since his first reports on Fiorentina.
The school of journalism he attended had a very strange name: the ‘Botteghina di via Ricasoli’, the Florentine editorial office of the ‘Corriere dello Sport’ in a basement in front of the Niccolini theatre.
At the ‘Botteghina’ Giordano Goggioli taught the trade and put the young aspirants through their paces.
Sports journalism at that time had to tell the matches to sportsmen who had not seen them.
Television was taking its first steps, the radio was only partially reporting on the progress of competitions.
It was necessary to know the players, their movements, the characteristics of the teams facing each other, the rules, to explain the refereeing decisions. All with only one support: the notebook.
In the scudetto season of 1955-56, the sports editorial staff of ‘La Nazione’ was born, of which he was a pillar, before heading it for many years.
Communication has changed over time, first with private TV and then the web, but he has continued to tell the story of football played with wisdom, always with a great love for Fiorentina.
Category “Ambassadors”
HoF 2022
PANDOLFINI Egisto
Player and manager, he played for Fiorentina between 1945 and 1952. With the Viola he earned the Azzurri jersey and was the protagonist, on May 18, 1952, of Italy-England, a match with the largest number of spectators ever played in Florence: over 90,000 paying fans! With the national team he took part in the 1950 World Cup in Brazil and in Switzerland in 1954. He is the oldest living Italian footballer to have scored a goal in a World Cup. He built and directed the youth sector that created Fiorentina ye-ye and is at the basis of the Fiorentina successes: those of the first team and also those of the various youth teams.
Category “Executives”</b
HoF 2012
PARENTI Lando
A piece of Fiorentina history. A member of the club, he worked as a volunteer for over 50 years, becoming responsible for sports equipment and management. He follows and accompanies, day after day, the growth of Fiorentina by participating, with dedication and passion, in all the moments of its history: from the victory of the 1955-56 Scudetto, celebrated with his great friend Julinho, to that of 1968-69. A serious and generous man, always precise and reliable, he dedicated his whole life and all his enthusiastic love to Fiorentina, giving his all and never asking for anything in return.
Category “Executives”
HoF 2012
PARIGI Narciso
Florentine singer and actor of international fame, he is one of the greatest interpreters of the Italian song of the fifties and sixties. A great supporter of the Viola brings Fiorentina to Italy and around the world by arranging and singing the official anthem of the viola club. He is a councilor in Fiorentina chaired by Nello Baglini, his name and his voice represent Florence and Fiorentina in the world.
Category “Ambassadors”
HoF 2012
PAROLI Ernesto
Responsible for match kits, he allowed all the Fiorentina champions, from the immediate post-war period onwards, to always have perfect team strips and boots. In times when footwear was forged by the hands of an artist, three generations of champions owe their serenity in kicking to him. Seemingly gruff, but with a big heart, Ernesto boasts the longest palmarés ever. A constant presence in the history of Fiorentina: 49 years of love, passion, and dedication.
Category “Executives”
HoF 2013
PESAOLA Bruno
He draws the affectionate nickname of Petisso from his petite build. As a coach, his stature was gigantic and he gathered sympathy and appreciation everywhere for his simple and effective football. His greatest success came in Florence thanks to a championship won with a team of kids, well set up in previous seasons by Beppe Chiappella, who with him became champions. The 1968-69 tricolor remains one of the most extraordinary football feats ever achieved. His character as a thoroughbred Argentine, always with a joke read, made Florentines love him from the very first moment.
Category “Coaches”
HoF 2013
PICCHI Sandro
The boy from Campo di Marte, raised on bread and Fiorentina, has become one of the best pens produced by the sports editorial team of “La Nazione”.
Excellent at recounting sporting events and, above all, football and the Viola team, his great passions.
A job he considered a great privilege and which he honored brilliantly.
His chronicles have for decades marked the progress of the lily team, on and off the pitch, explaining to readers much more than what was happening.
Sandro has developed his own style, very direct, where the journalist lets the sporting event, its progress and the dynamics that characterized it, speak for themselves.
Through his writings, football itself told its story.
A job experienced as a privilege and carried out with extraordinary skill and simplicity.
We welcome Sandro PICCHI’s entry into the Viola Hall of Fame, Ambassadors Category!
Category “Ambassadors”
HoF 2024
PIN Celeste
He arrived in Florence at the beginning of the 1982-83 season. He had made his mark in the Under-21 and in Serie B.
Fiorentina chose him to replace the strongest Italian stopper, Pietro Vierchowod, and to form the central pair of the defence with a sacred monster of world football: Daniel Passarella.
It was not an easy start, the team paid for the end of the previous championship and the difficulties of Daniel’s inclusion, but the young stopper was able to make up for his lack of experience with concentration and application.
Over the years he became a bulwark of the purple defence, one who never gave up, who gave everything on the pitch, right down to the last drop of sweat.
A true goalscorer, like those of the 1970s, but also a modern defender, intelligent in reading the game and the movements of his adversaries.
Nine championships with the lily jersey, the captain’s armband conquered with merit, but also the great anger, never quenched, for the epilogue of the 1990 Uefa Cup final.
In the purple jersey from 1982 to 1991 with 268 appearances and 6 goals.
Category “Players”
HoF 2022
PIZZIOLO Mario
A midfielder, Fiorentina bought him when he was twenty, in 1929, he remained in purple until 1936. He immediately became a first team player and was the element from which the team’s leap in quality started: from the conquest of Serie A to the fight for the Scudetto of 1934-35. Loved by the fans, he is the first icon of the Viola team and he is the first Fiorentina player to win the title of World Champion in 1934. Unfortunately, during the World Cup, he suffers a serious injury in the battle against Spain (in the quarter-finals), which deeply marks his career.
Category “Players”
HoF 2012
PRINI Maurilio
It was he, the only Florentine of that wonderful team, who was Bernardini’s last, decisive tactical invention to win the scudetto.
It wasn’t just a simple winger, with the number 11 on his shoulders.
A full-back – midfielder – winger, the coach defined him.
The man everywhere who linked the team, increased its balance in defense and offensive strength, as well as guaranteeing some historic goals like the one in Belgrade, in the semi-final of the European Cup, which qualified Fiorentina for the final in Madrid…
Tactical intelligence and two inexhaustible lungs, accompanied by a lot of professional seriousness and self-sacrifice, took him to the great heights of football, champion of Italy in the purple shirt and player of the Italian national team.
We welcome Maurilio PRINI’s entry into the Viola Hall of Fame, Players Category!
Category “Players”
HoF 2024
RANIERI Claudio
A courteous, elegant man, gifted with great culture and with a property of language rare in the world of football. He began his journey with Fiorentina winning the applause of the ‘Favorita’, while the old Viola struggled to accept the B series, he immediately enthused with the young Banchelli and Robbiati.
Four years with many victories: the Serie B championship, the Coppa Italia, the Italian Super Cup: after twenty-one years the titles returned to Florence. During that incredible night of the return from Bergamo: forty thousand fans waiting for the team and celebrating until 4:00 in the morning, intoxicated by passion. An organised, homogenous Fiorentina, with great players: Batistuta, Rui Costa, Toldo and many others imprinted in violet history. An important cycle ended in the Cup Winners’ Cup semi-final against Barcelona. After Florence he travelled around Europe, starring in the biggest stages of football, coming to mark an epoch with the victory of Leicester in the Premier League and obtaining the FIFA award as best coach of 2016.
On the Viola bench from 1993 to 1997 with 172 appearances.
Category “Coaches”
HoF 2022
RAVEGGI Ennio
His runs along the pitch to treat the injured, remained etched in everyone’s eyes: with that huge bag in his hand he walked the field in the direction of those who needed it. And his providential rush saved the life of the greatest Fiorentina player, lifeless on the ground waiting for someone to bring him back to life. And who, if not Pallino, could perform the miracle? In addition to Antognoni, dozens and dozens of other players are indebted to him who, thanks to his treatments and massages, have overcome pain and played games for which they have made history.
Category “Executives”
HoF 2016
RIDOLFI Luigi Vay Da Verrazzano
Patron and entrepreneur, he was the founder and first president of Fiorentina. He assumed all the burdens of corporate management made dramatic by the scarcity of economic means. He built the stadium in Florence using his own means when the public coffers could no longer support the completion of the arena. He was also President of the FIGC and of the Italian Athletics Federation and conceived and built the Federal Technical Center of Coverciano which is dedicated to him as is the athletics stadium in Campo di Marte.
Category “Executives”
HoF 2012
RIGANÒ Christian
He is the bomber of the rebirth. The most prolific and decisive Viola striker from 2002 to 2004, from Serie C2 to Serie A. He marked the beginning of the Della Valle era positively. With his goals, in Florentia Viola and then, finally, in Fiorentina, he drags the club back to the top-flight. With his generosity and humanity, he conquers the Viola crowd and deserves the cheers of thanks from the fans. He chose to live and work in Florence where he was greeted with gratitude by the Fiorentina fans.
Category “Players”
HoF 2012
RIGHETTI Raffaele
Historic Secretary General of Fiorentina. He worked for over 50 years at the club, from 1961 to 2012, at the service of the Viola cause through all the ages, the joys and sorrows, with great organizational capacity, true humility and crystal clear honesty. A story of work and above all of love, with which Raffaele accompanied and often guided the various properties that followed at the helm of the club. Righetti represents Viola history and is Honorary President of the Museo Fiorentina.
Category “Executives”
HoF 2012
ROBOTTI Enzo
His official debut with the number two Fiorentina jersey took place on a sunny afternoon in his hometown against the team called “the greys” and in which he had played in his youth. After the unfortunate debut during which Fiorentina lost the two points and he gained several stitches for a head injury, there followed the most enjoyable and victorious years for Fiorentina of all time: Enzo was always there, for over two hundred and seventy times, many as captain, always as a loyal squire of the backline, on both the right and left, in pairings with Magnini, with Cervato and often with Castelletti.
Category “Players”
HoF 2017
ROGGI Moreno
Only accidents stopped the career of a defender who, at a very young age, had earned a place in the national team. Fiorentina had found the leader around which to build the defensive block to go hunting for the Scudetto again. Winning the 1975 Coppa Italia seemed just an overture. Bad luck decided otherwise. His intelligence however, was not lacking in the world of football: when he became a manager he was the first to support former players who ended up in difficulty. A solidarity practice that continues with the experience of the Viola Glories.
Category “Players”
HoF 2019
ROGORA Bernardo
The beginning was difficult, hard, as your life has always been.
Arriving in Serie A at 27 years old was not a good business card.
The critics were wary, the public demanding: the number 2 shirt, the one worn by Magnini and Robotti, was a heavy legacy.
Nothing was forgiven you, but after a few months you managed to become the defender to whom the strongest attacker could be entrusted, the hound who left the opposing goalscorers dry, so much so that you earned the nickname “Rock”.
In those five years the Fiorentina defense could no longer do without you.
Your duels against Mazzola and the great Gigi Riva were memorable, tough and implacable but always fair clashes.
In the best year you only missed against Bologna, and it was the only defeat of a wonderful season which ended with the championship victory.
It was May 18, 1969, when Fiorentina took the field against Varese for the last match of the season.
The Viola were already Italian champions, and the roar of welcome from the public caused unforgettable sensations, repaying you for the many sacrifices made to get to the top.
We welcome Bernardo ROGORA’s entry into the Viola Hall of Fame, Players Category!
Category “Players”
HoF 2024
ROSETTA Francesco
The unbeatable formations are built over time, starting from the defense. Francesco Rosetta was, together with his companion Sergio Cervato, the first piece of the wonderful mosaic. His experience and technique, combined with the tenacity of Giuseppe Chiappella, led him to defend both purple and blue in those years in which the two colors practically coincided. The captain of the Scudetto, of the Grasshoppers Cup and of formidable, unforgettable vintages.
Category “Players”
HoF 2017
SARTI Giuliano
He is the young goalkeeper called to replace Costagliola. In just one season he will overcome the skepticism of many and win the 1955-56 championship. For nine years he defends the Fiorentina goal with authority. A very concrete goalkeeper and little inclined to spectacular gestures, he redesigns his role in a dynamic way, with a greater involvement in the team game, unusual for that time. With 256 appearances in official matches with the purple jersey, a Scudetto, a Coppa Italia, a Grasshoppers Cup and a Cup-Winners’ Cup. Sarti marks his presence at Fiorentina from 1954 to 1963 also with an appearance in the senior national team and two in the military national team.
Category “Players”
HoF 2013
SEGATO Armando
His story, even today, grieves our hearts. It is the story of an athlete born to play football and to do it with that refinement that only an innate class can grant. It is the story of a Scudetto, a Grasshoppers Cup and an invincible team of which he was the pivot of a formidable midfield. It is the story of 255 purple shirts and 20 blue shirts always honored by a heart of gold and excellent performance. It is the story of a father of a family, a splendid family, who too soon chose the sky as a playing field. It is the story of Armando Segato that we all feel next to us today.
Category “Players”
HoF 2014
STACCIONE Vittorio
A quality midfielder from Torino, he arrived in Florence in April 1927. He played the first international match in the history of Fiorentina against Lugano and was the protagonist of the first difficult years of the new club. He remained in Florence for four years, from 1927 to 1931, experiencing the transition from the red and white shirt to the purple one and, making a great contribution to the first historic promotion to Serie A. An Antifascist, he was captured by the SS, as a political opponent, on 12 March 1944 and he was deported to the Mauthausen concentration camp where he died after a year of ferocious imprisonment.
Category “Players”</b
HoF 2012
SUPERCHI Franco
After Griffanti, Costagliola, Sarti and Albertosi, he joins the great goalkeepers who have defended the Fiorentina goal for a decade at a time. After so many greats, yet another one. Arriving in Florence at just twenty-one in 1965, he learned the best from the then number one for the club and national team. A handshake of congratulations from Pelé at the end of a friendly match in 1967 marks the definitive start of the climb: in the first year as first choice he wins the Scudetto with his fellow Fiorentina ye-ye and for 318 official matches, his bare handed saves are part of the club story.
Category “Players”
HoF 2016
TANTURLI Valter
President of the Fiorentina Supporters Association and historic president of the Viola Club Vieusseux, he has always been the head fan of the Curva Ferrovia groups, but also an irreplaceable point of reference for all fans. His great organizational capacity, combined with his lucid vision of the role of a fan, helped solve the most delicate situations, always guaranteeing the team the support of the twelfth man. He was a master of values and love for the flag and for this reason he will remain for everyone a beacon of passion for the purple jersey and for the Florentine spirit.
Category “Ambassadors”
HoF 2013
TOLDO Francesco
By observing our children before each match with their local team, we find the happy traits and the eagerness just to play that Francesco Toldo had when, as a young goalkeeper, he came to wear our jersey. From his gloves we started again after a bitter relegation and, with his gloves, we raised two Coppa Italias, an Italian Supercoppa and almost reached a Cup-Winners’ Cup final. In eight years, over 330 appearances, thousands of dives and, while saving three penalties in the same match with the national team, the pride of being able to say: “It’s Francesco; he’s Viola! ”.
Category “Players”
HoF 2015
TONI Luca
“There’s always Luca …”. This was the common thought of us fans when we saw our Fiorentina go behind. And he never betrayed expectations: whether it was with his head, his right foot, or acrobatics, he always managed to send the ball over the opponent’s line. The results of those seasons are filled only by his surname. After years of feasting on goals with the great Christian Riganò, we had indigestion with those of another great bomber, of Fiorentina, and also of the 2006 world champion national team.
Category “Players”
HoF 2016
UGOLINI Ugolino
A noble and generous soul. A life of selfless passion for Fiorentina: President of a legendary Coppa Italia and an Anglo Italian Cup, has been at the centre of the Viola world for almost two decades, carrying the burdens of a complicated but fascinating leadership on his shoulders. He did not hesitate to throw a big player on the pitch, to allow us fans enjoy the beauty of an ace like Giancarlo Antognoni. Without that act of courage and foresight, our history today would have been devoid of our eternal number 10.
Category “Executives”
HoF 2015
VALCAREGGI Ferruccio
Enhances the ranks of Fiorentina player-coaches. Extraordinary Viola winger at the turn of the war with 126 appearances, 27 goals and a Coppa Italia in 1940, the first ever for Fiorentina, he was coach on two occasions, from 1962 to 1963, and between 1984 and 1985. Technical Commissioner of the National team with the splendid success in the 1968 European championship and the 1970 World Cup final enrich the pride for having had him on the Fiorentina bench.
Category “Players”
HoF 2013
VALENTI Paolo
Having turned off the transistor radio, a faithful friend of league Sundays, we waited impatiently for his smiling and reassuring face to appear. Paolo Valenti briefly introduced the day and passed the line to local reporters, each with the regional accent of the team they commented on. We did not know it, but Paolo suffered: he could not freely shout his joy in case of his Fiorentina’s victory or his bitterness in case of defeat. His impeccable professionalism and his balance in any situation prevented us from being able to embrace him as one of ours: we do it now, dear Paolo.
Category “Ambassadors”
HoF 2015
VIRGILI Giuseppe
To win you need the bombers and the big boy from Friuli, who arrived to Fiorentina in 1954-55 is just that. With Virgili at the center of the attack, Fiorentina won their first national title. In his seasons played with the Viola jersey, he destroys the opponent’s defenses with obstinate consistency: 64 goals in 115 official appearances make him one of the most prolific Fiorentina strikers of all time. With seven appearances and two goals, in Brazil, in the senior national team he helps to color the Azzurri of the fifties with purple.
Category “Players”
HoF 2013
VOLK Rodolfo
Arriving late, the newborn Fiorentina needed to make her way into national football. In 1926, taking advantage of the fact that he was in the military in Florence, it chose a center forward who could make the fortune of any team even today. Tall, strong, smiling in the photos and merciless in the penalty area. The first gunner in the history of Fiorentina seemed to come from the most specialized armies of grenadiers and, like them, he threw his bombs, but with his feet.
Category “Players”
HoF 2015
ZEFFIRELLI Franco
The extraordinary artistic talent of the master has created absolute masterpieces for the big and small screen and marked the most important works on the stages of the most important theaters around the world. For Florence, however, he is and will always be, above all the most important among the Viola fans, the first supporter of our beloved Fiorentina, a universal ambassador of Florence and his football team.
Category “Ambassadors”
HoF 2013
ALBERTAZZI GIORGIO
Attore dal genio indiscusso, considerato un maestro del teatro nazionale, è anche regista, drammaturgo e poeta. Laureatosi in architettura, nel dopoguerra, investe il suo talento e la sua passione nell’arte della recitazione e debutta sotto la regia di Luchino Visconti in una rappresentazione del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. Poi la televisione, il cinema e, soprattutto, il teatro lo eleggono tra i più grandi attori italiani di sempre. Per Albertazzi la Fiorentina è una parte di sé, un familiare speciale, un punto fisso della sua vita, compagna fedele e insostituibile di ogni domenica.
Categoria”Ambasciatori”
HoF 2014
Riconoscimenti
An actor of undisputed genius, considered a master of the national theater, he is also a director, playwright and poet. With a degree in architecture, after the War he invested his talent and passion in the art of acting and made his debut under the direction of Luchino Visconti in a performance of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. Later, television, cinema and, above all, the theater elect him among the greatest Italian actors of all time. For Albertazzi, Fiorentina is a part of him, a special family member, a fixed point in his life, a faithful and irreplaceable companion of every Sunday.
Category “Ambassadors”
HoF 2014
ALBERTOSI Enrico
Arrivato a 19 anni alla Fiorentina, si trovò la porta sbarrata da Giuliano Sarti. Riuscì a giocare in Nazionale prima di diventare titolare a Firenze. Era un portiere completo, fortissimo nelle acrobazie, con una grande tecnica di base ed un notevole senso del piazzamento. Dieci stagioni, vincendo ben cinque Coppe, rendevano quasi impossibile pensare ad un altro portiere tra i nostri pali. Eppure, alla soglia dei trent’anni, venne ceduto al Cagliari, proprio nella stagione in cui vincemmo lo scudetto. Lui ne vinse due, in Sardegna e a Milano, e fu il portiere della Nazionale Vicecampione del mondo nel 1970 in Messico, ma è rimasto sempre nei cuori dei tifosi viola.
Categoria “Giocatori”
HoF 2018
Riconoscimenti
When he arrived at Fiorentina at age 19, he found the door barred by Giuliano Sarti. He managed to play for the national team before becoming a starter in Florence. He was a complete goalkeeper, very acrobatic, with a great basic technique and a remarkable sense of position. Ten seasons, winning five Cups, made it almost impossible to think of another goalkeeper between our posts. Yet, at the age of thirty, he was sold to Cagliari, in the very season in which we won the Scudetto. He did win two, in Sardinia and in Milan, and was the goalkeeper of the National team, World Cup runners-up in 1970 in Mexico, but he has always remained in the hearts of the Viola fans.
Category “Players”
HoF 2018
ANTOGNONI Giancarlo
É il primo nome iscritto nella Hall of Fame della Fiorentina. La sua proclamazione è avvenuta nella festa a lui dedicata al Mandela Forum il 4 marzo 2011. La storia d’amore che lega Firenze e Antognoni è inestinguibile. Al di là dei suoi infiniti record in viola, è sufficiente ricordare la sua gara di addio al calcio in uno Stadio Comunale tutto esaurito come per una sfida con la Juventus, la nemica di sempre. Quando esce dal campo per l’ultima volta, salutato dall’ultimo applauso, Giancarlo Antognoni entra direttamente nella leggenda della Fiorentina e del calcio italiano. In viola dal 1972 al 1987, Giancarlo detiene il record assoluto di presenze per un giocatore della Fiorentina in partite ufficiali (429), in serie A (341), e in Nazionale (73). Per tutti il numero dieci viola per eccellenza, il nostro Capitano!
Categoria “Giocatori”
HoF 2012
Riconoscimenti
His is the first name to enter in the Fiorentina Hall of Fame. His proclamation took place on the feast dedicated to him at the Mandela Forum on March 4, 2011. The love story that binds Florence and Antognoni is inextinguishable. Beyond his infinite records in viola, it is enough to remember his farewell match to football in a sold-out Stadio Comunale as if it were a challenge with Juventus, the historical enemy. When he left the pitch for the last time, greeted by the last applause, Giancarlo Antognoni entered directly into the legend of Fiorentina and Italian football. In Viola from 1972 to 1987, Giancarlo holds the absolute record of appearances for a Fiorentina player in official matches (429), in Serie A (341), and in the national team (73). For everyone, he is the Fiorentina number ten par excellence, our Captain!
Category “Players”
HoF 2012
ARTUSI Luciano
É un fiorentino antico come coloro che il 17 Febbraio del 1530 giocarono la famosa partita di Calcio in Piazza Santa Croce in scherno alle truppe dell’Imperatore Carlo V che assediavano Firenze. Storico e scrittore di successo, ha fatto parte del Corteo Storico della Repubblica Fiorentina fin dal 1951, per ben 64 anni, e ne è stato Direttore per ben 55 anni. Il suo saluto alla voce è divenuto coro in Curva Fiesole. Tutte le vittorie più importanti della Fiorentina hanno goduto delle celebrazioni da lui organizzate attraverso l’unione tra la tradizione dell’antico calcio fiorentino col calcio all’inglese ed il viola della Fiorentina.
Categoria “Ambasciatori”
HoF 2015
Riconoscimenti
He is an antique Florentine, like those who on February 17, 1530 played the famous football match in Piazza Santa Croce in mockery of the troops of Emperor Charles V who were besieging Florence. Historian and successful writer, he has been part of the Historical Parade of the Florentine Republic since 1951, for 64 years, and was its Director for 55 years. His vocal salute became a chant in the Curva Fiesole. All of Fiorentina’s most important victories enjoyed the celebrations organized by him through the union between the tradition of ancient Florentine football with English football, and Fiorentina’s Viola.
Category “Ambassadors”
HoF 2015
ASTORI Davide
Un calciatore, “per hobby”, come amava definirsi, non arriva a disputare 14 gare con la Nazionale e ad essere il capitano della propria squadra. Per Davide il calcio non era un passatempo, ma una professione interpretata con il massimo della serietà e dell’umanità possibile. È stato una dei protagonisti più veri e positivi del calcio, rifuggendo gli eccessi e i sensazionalismi. La sua maglia numero 13 sarà quella di capitano della Fiorentina per sempre.
Categoria “Giocatori”
HoF 2018
Riconoscimenti
A footballer, “as a hobby”, as he liked to define himself, does not get to play 14 matches with the national team and to be the captain of his own team. For Davide, football was not a pastime, but a profession interpreted with the utmost seriousness and humanity. He was one of the truest and most positive players in football, shunning the excesses and sensationalism. His number 13 shirt will be that of the captain of Fiorentina forever.
Category “Players”
HoF 2018
BACCANI Alberto
Nel 1956 fu il protagonista, assieme a Galluzzi prima e a Scagliotti dopo, del primo Nucleo d’Addestramento Giovani Calciatori della FIGC. Quando la Federazione lasciò i Nuclei alle società fu il fondatore e il presidente del Centro Giovani Calciatori Viola che tenne insieme i ragazzi formati. Solo due anni dopo, la Fiorentina decise di assorbire, a costo zero, giovani e tecnici. Da allora “il professore”, grande vignettista, si specializzò nel riabilitare i calciatori infortunati da Gonfiantini a Chiarugi, da Brizi a Desolati, da Amarildo ad Antognoni fino al suo capolavoro: Roberto Baggio. Salutiamo l’ingresso nella Hall of Fame del professore Alberto Baccani.
Categoria “Dirigenti”
HoF 2023
Riconoscimenti
In 1956 he was the protagonist, together with Galluzzi first and Scagliotti later, of the first FIGC Young Footballers Training Unit. When the Federation left the Nuclei to the clubs he was the founder and president of the Viola Young Footballers Center who kept the trained kids together. Only two years later, Fiorentina decided to absorb young players and coaches at no cost. Since then “the professor”, a great cartoonist, specialized in rehabilitating injured footballers from Gonfiantini to Chiarugi, from Brizi to Desolati, from Amarildo to Antognoni up to his masterpiece: Roberto Baggio. We welcome Professor Alberto Baccani’s entry into the Hall of Fame.
Category “Managers”
HoF 2023
BACCANI Ottavio
Nella Fiorentina di Ridolfi fu giocatore, dirigente, segretario, direttore, e, al momento del bisogno, allenatore. Era il cardine organizzativo della scelta di costruire in casa i giocatori, e fu il teorico della scelta del “WM”, il “sistema” che portò alla vittoria della Coppa Italia 1940. Durante la guerra e l’invasione tedesca salvò il patrimonio viola e, subito dopo la Liberazione, fu con Paganelli e Banchieri il protagonista della rinascita. Finito il rapporto di lavoro rimase socio della Fiorentina e fu il primo direttore e segretario del Centro Tecnico Federale di Coverciano – dal 1958 al 1968, quando dovette arrendersi alla malattia.
Categoria “Dirigenti”
HoF 2018
Riconoscimenti
In Ridolfi’s Fiorentina he was a player, manager, secretary, director, and, when needed, a coach. He was the organizational cornerstone of the decision to grow the players from within the club, and he was the theorist of the choice of the “WM”, the “system” that led to the victory of the 1940 Coppa Italia. During the war and the German invasion, he saved the Viola heritage and, immediately after the Liberation, he was the protagonist of the rebirth, along with Paganelli and Banchieri. After his work ended, he remained a partner of Fiorentina and was the first director and secretary of the Federal Technical Center of Coverciano – from 1958 to 1968, when he had to surrender to illness.
Category “Executives”
HoF 2018
BAGLINI Nello
Il Presidente artefice del secondo capolavoro viola faceva del pragmatismo e dell’oculatezza la sua arma vincente. Appassionato viola da sempre, in sei anni di vertice gigliato ha vinto una Coppa Italia, una Coppa Mitropa e quello Scudetto che nessuno avrebbe mai pronosticato. La sua idea di partire dai germogli per farli crescere, maturare e fiorire è stata la ricetta di un successo tanto inatteso quanto ampiamente meritato. La Fiorentina ye-ye fu il suo capolavoro. Accanto al tricolore di Enrico Befani, c’è quello magnifico di Nello Baglini.
Categoria “Dirigenti”
HoF 2014
Riconoscimenti
The President, who created the second Fiorentina masterpiece, made pragmatism and prudence his winning weapon. He has always been a Viola fan, and in six years as the head of the club, he won a Coppa Italia, a Mitropa Cup, and a Scudetto that no one would ever have predicted. His idea of starting from the roots to make them grow, mature and bloom was the recipe for an unexpected and well-deserved success. Fiorentina ye-ye was his masterpiece. Alongside the tricolor of Enrico Befani, there is the magnificent one of Nello Baglini.
Category “Executives”
HoF 2014
BANDINI Italo
Detto “Aldo”, fiorentino nella Fiorentina. Oltre ad essere stato un calciatore di ottimo livello nella pionieristica Fiorentina, tra il 1926 ed il 1930, rappresenta il primo grande biografo del nostro Club. Le sue preziose e precise annotazioni sul retro di tante bellissime immagini della metà degli anni Venti, hanno consentito al Museo Fiorentina di sbrogliare tanti misteri e raggiungere tante verità. A lui va il nostro eterno grazie per l’attività di calciatore e per quella di appassionato cronista.
Categoria “Giocatori”
HoF 2013
Riconoscimenti
Known as “Aldo”, a Florentine in Fiorentina. In addition to being an excellent player in the pioneering Fiorentina, between 1926 and 1930, he represents the first great biographer of our club. His precious and precise annotations on the back of many beautiful images of the mid-twenties, have allowed the Museo Fiorentina to unravel many mysteries and uncover many truths. Our eternal thanks go to him for his activity as a footballer and for his passionate reporting.
Category “Players”
HoF 2013
BATISTUTA Gabriel Omar
Una delle più grandi stelle viola di sempre arrivata dall’Argentina e, in nove anni, diventato il centravanti più forte del mondo. Tutti lo volevano, ma soltanto noi l’avevamo, tutte le domeniche davanti ai nostri occhi. Sempre a ringhiare sul pallone e sempre a correre verso la bandierina ed a mitragliare gli avversari. I suoi numeri viola sono impressionanti: 207 reti in 333 incontri. Ma ancora più impressionante è stata, per chi ha avuto la fortuna di assistere alle sue giornate calcistiche, la determinazione con la quale cercava il gol. Ogni domenica lo trovava. Trascinatore dei viola nelle vittorie della Coppa Italia e della Supercoppa Italiana 1996. Largo al ruggito del Re Leone.
Category “Giocatori”
HoF 2014
Riconoscimenti
One of the biggest Viola stars ever to come from Argentina and, in nine years, he became the greatest striker in the world. Everyone wanted him, but only we had him, every Sunday in front of our own eyes. Always growling at the ball and always running towards the flag to machine-gun the opponents. His numbers with Fiorentina are impressive: 207 goals in 333 matches. But even more impressive was, for those lucky enough to witness him in his playing days, the determination with which he sought the goal and every Sunday he found it. The instigator of the Viola in the victories of the Coppa Italia and the Italian Supercoppa 1996. Make way for the roar of the Lion King.
Category “Players”
HoF 2014
BEATRICE Bruno
Una vita da mediano.
Correvi su e giù per il campo per togliere il pallone dai piedi degli avversari ed intercettare i loro passaggi.
Arrivato alla Fiorentina nell’estate del 1973, eri l’uomo giusto per far crescere la squadra, il “Mastino” di cui c’era bisogno.
Su e giù senza sosta, tutti i giorni, senza tregua, fino a quando una pubalgia ti fermò.
Per qualcuno un calciatore non dovrebbe fermarsi mai, come una macchina, va spremuto e rimesso in campo subito, la sua salute non è importante…
Bruno viene “curato” con una terapia a base di raggi Roentgen, per accelerare la ripresa agonistica.
Una quantità enorme di raggi, ripetuti con una frequenza e una intensità troppo alta per poter essere tollerati.
Il calciatore viene rimesso in campo, ma la salute dell’uomo è terribilmente compromessa.
Beatrice continuerà a giocare per qualche anno ma il suo destino è segnato.
Bruno muore il 16 dicembre 1987, a soli 39 anni, per una leucemia linfoblastica acuta, lasciando la moglie Gabriella e due figli piccoli Alessandro e Claudia.
Bruno Beatrice, vincitore con la Fiorentina della Coppa Italia 1975 e della Coppa di Lega Italo – Inglese, è ancora, insieme a tutta la sua famiglia, in attesa del successo più importante: GIUSTIZIA!
Salutiamo l’ingresso nella Hall of Fame Viola, Categoria Giocatori, di Bruno BEATRICE!
Categoria “Giocatori”
HoF 2024
Riconoscimenti
A life as a midfielder.
You ran up and down the pitch to take the ball away from your opponents and intercept their passes.
Having arrived at Fiorentina in the summer of 1973, you were the right man to help the team grow, the “Mastino” it needed.
Up and down non-stop, every day, without respite, until groin pain stopped you.
For some, a footballer should never stop, like a machine, he must be squeezed and put back on the field immediately, his health is not important…
Bruno is “treated” with a therapy based on Roentgen rays, to accelerate his competitive recovery.
An enormous quantity of rays, repeated with a frequency and intensity too high to be tolerated.
The player is put back on the pitch, but the man’s health is terribly compromised.
Beatrice will continue to play for a few years but her fate is sealed.
Bruno died on 16 December 1987, at just 39 years old, from acute lymphoblastic leukemia, leaving his wife Gabriella and two young children Alessandro and Claudia.
Bruno Beatrice, winner of the 1975 Italian Cup and the Italian-English League Cup with Fiorentina, is still, together with his entire family, waiting for the most important success: JUSTICE!
We welcome Bruno BEATRICE’s entry into the Viola Hall of Fame, Players Category!
Category “Players”
HoF 2024
BEFANI Enrico
É il Presidente delle vittorie. Trasforma la Fiorentina da una società di calcio artigianale ad una società organizzata a livelli di assoluta avanguardia. Dopo la conquista della Coppa Italia del Marchese Ridolfi, Befani portò a Firenze in nove anni di presidenza uno Scudetto, una Coppa Grasshoppers, e, mentre passava le consegne a Longinotti, una Coppa delle Coppe, una Coppa Italia e tanto football di qualità. La grande Fiorentina degli anni Cinquanta deve al suo munifico Presidente i trofei e un periodo di superiorità tecnica senza precedenti. La bacheca di quegli anni è soltanto priva di una Coppa dei Campioni che lo avrebbe ulteriormente e meritatamente premiato.
Categoria “Dirigenti”
HoF 2013
Riconoscimenti
He is the President of the victories. He transformed Fiorentina from an artisan football club to a club organized at the most avantgarde levels. After the conquest of the Coppa Italia by the Marquis Ridolfi, Befani brought to Florence, in his nine years of presidency, a Scudetto, a Grasshoppers Cup, and, while handing over to Longinotti, a Cup-Winners’ Cup, a Coppa Italia and plenty of quality football. The great Fiorentina of the 1950s owed trophies and a period of unprecedented technical superiority to its magnificent President. The trophy cabinet of those years is only missing a Champions Cup which would have further and deservedly rewarded him.
Category “Executives”
HoF 2013
BERNARDINI Fulvio
Vittorioso allenatore del primo scudetto nel 1955-56 e della Coppa Grasshoppers nel 1957. Grande esperto e teorico del calcio, il “Dottore” seppe costruire e guidare quella magnifica squadra che ricordò agli sportivi italiani il “Grande Torino” e sfiorò l’incredibile impresa di terminare un campionato senza sconfitte. Amatissimo dai tifosi, sotto la sua saggia guida la Fiorentina raggiunse anche la finale della Coppa dei Campioni nel 1957.
Categoria “Allenatori”
HoF 2012
Riconoscimenti
Victorious coach of the first Scudetto in 1955-56 and of the Grasshoppers Cup in 1957. A great expert and theorist of football, the “Doctor” knew how to build and lead that magnificent team that reminded Italian sportsmen of the “Grande Torino” and came close to the incredible feat of finishing a championship without defeat. Loved by the fans, under his wise leadership Fiorentina also reached the final of the Champions Cup in 1957.
Category “Coaches”
HoF 2012
BERTONI Daniel Ricardo
Il “Puntero” di Bahia Blanca arrivò nel 1980 e, a Firenze, ancora oggi il suo nome richiama alla mente grandi emozioni. Arrivava da Siviglia, dopo la vittoria argentina nel Mondiale 1978, con il suo gol segnato in finale. Quanti colpi, quanta classe! Un suo gesto faceva partire l’inconfondibile coro: “Lode a te, Daniel Bertoni”… Amatissimo dagli Ultras, proprio a loro restituì, dopo gli scontri con i tifosi romani, la solidarietà ricevuta nei momenti duri. Un artista del pallone, uno a cui lo stesso Maradona lasciava battere le punizioni, che ha conquistato il titolo di Campione nel cuore dei fiorentini.
Categoria “Giocatori”
HoF 2018
Riconoscimenti
The “Puntero” of Bahia Blanca arrived in 1980 and, in Florence, to this day his name still brings back great emotions. He came from Seville, after Argentina’s 1978 World Cup victory, scoring in the final. So many shots, so much class! His skills set off the unmistakable chorus: “Praise to you, Daniel Bertoni” … Loved by the Ultras, he returned to them, after the clashes with the Roman fans, the solidarity he had received in hard times. A football artist, one to whom Maradona himself left the free kick taking. He who won the title of Champion in the heart of the Florentines.
Category “Players”
HoF 2018
BIAGINI Stefano
Un ragazzo pratese forte e robusto con un cuore grande che batte per la Fiorentina. Fondatore e anima dei primi Ultras Viola, è un leader carismatico conosciuto da tutti come “Pompa”. Ha saputo dare un’identità alla Curva Fiesole insegnando ai ragazzi l’importanza di portare con orgoglio e coraggio i colori viola a testa alta in qualunque parte del mondo. É grazie a lui che la Curva Fiesole diventa il cuore pulsante del tifo viola.
Categoria “Ambasciatori”
HoF 2012
Riconoscimenti
A strong and robust boy from Prato with a big heart that beats for Fiorentina. Founder and soul of the first Viola Ultras, he is a charismatic leader known by all as “Pompa”. He was able to give an identity to the Curva Fiesole by teaching young people the importance of wearing purple colors with their heads held high in every part of the world, with pride and courage. It is thanks to him that the Curva Fiesole became the beating heart of the Viola support.
Category “Ambassadors”
HoF 2012
BONI Luigi
Nasce un anno dopo la Fiorentina perché, dice, bisognava aspettarla. Cresce incamminandosi per Borgo Pinti per andare allo stadio. Nel dopoguerra le trasferte con i torpedoni e le macchine dell’epoca, viaggi che diventavano avventure, pur di seguire la squadra. L’avventura, poi, diventa entrare nel Consiglio della Fiorentina, il primo della gestione Baglini, per “risanare i debiti e lottare per lo scudetto” e far partire l’organizzazione dei Viola Clubs. Quando, nel 1974, nacque l’Associazione Centro Coordinamento Viola Clubs, Gigi ne fu il primo presidente e lo rimase fino al 1986, quando si dimise per difendere la dignità dell’Associazione.
Categoria “Ambasciatori”
HoF 2018
Riconoscimenti
Born a year after Fiorentina because, he says, we had to wait for her. He grew up walking through Borgo Pinti to go to the stadium. After the war, the trips on coaches and cars of the time, journeys that became adventures, just to follow the team. The adventure then becomes joining the Fiorentina Council, the first of the Baglini management, to “settle the debts and fight for the Scudetto” and start the organization of the Viola Clubs. When the Viola Clubs Coordination Center Association was born in 1974, Gigi was its first president and remained so until 1986, when he resigned to defend the dignity of the Association.
Category “Ambassadors”
HoF 2018
BORGONOVO Stefano
Il ragazzo che faceva impazzire le difese avversarie insieme a Roberto Baggio a cavallo tra gli anni Ottanta e Novanta, ha lasciato il posto ad un Uomo straordinario che ha affrontato pubblicamente la propria indicibile sofferenza per la salvezza e la Speranza di tanti sfortunati. Lo ricorderemo sempre mentre arpiona un pallone in area e mentre cattura la Vita su una sedia a rotelle. Il medesimo sorriso, la medesima forza, il medesimo cuore. La ferrea volontà di Stefano Borgonovo è quanto di meglio chiunque di noi poteva ricevere in dono.
Categoria “Giocatori”
HoF 2013
Riconoscimenti
The boy who drove the opposing defenses crazy together with Roberto Baggio at the turn of the eighties and nineties, has given way to an extraordinary man who has publicly faced his unspeakable suffering for the salvation and hope of many unfortunates. We will always remember him harpooning a ball into the box and seizing life in a wheelchair. The same smile, the same strength, the same heart. Stefano Borgonovo’s iron will is the best any of us could receive as a gift.
Category “Players”
HoF 2013
BRIZI Giuseppe
Un esempio di fedeltà e attaccamento alla maglia viola lungo quindici anni, dal 1961 al 1976. É uno dei protagonisti della Fiorentina ye-ye che si aggiudica il secondo storico titolo nazionale. Giocatore sempre elegante e mai falloso era abilissimo nel far ripartire il gioco. A Firenze conquista uno Scudetto nel 1968-69, due volte la Coppa Italia (1966 e 1975), la Mitropa Cup nel 1966 ed una Coppa di Lega Italo-Inglese nel 1976. Una guida per i più giovani, un professionista esemplare.
Categoria “Giocatori”
HoF 2012
Riconoscimenti
An example of loyalty and attachment to the purple jersey for fifteen years, from 1961 to 1976. He is one of the protagonists of the Fiorentina ye-ye that wins the second historic national title. An always elegant and never foul player, he was very skilled in relaunching a match. In Florence he won a Scudetto in 1968-69, the Coppa Italia twice (1966 and 1975), the Mitropa Cup in 1966 and an Anglo Italian Cup in 1976. An example for the youngest, an exemplary professional.
Category “Players”
HoF 2012
CARPANESI Sergio
Cresciuto nella squadra gestita dal babbo si era affermato come uno dei migliori giocatori della sua generazione. A diciassette anni tutti gli osservatori del calcio nazionale sottolineavano le sue grandi doti. La Fiorentina riuscì ad assicurarselo, strappandolo ad una nutrita concorrenza. Dopo due anni con i ragazzi, il grande salto, con la partecipazione al ritiro di Abbadia San Salvatore, gli apprezzamenti di Bernardini, le convocazioni in quella squadra che faceva mirabilie e la maglia da titolare con gol a Ferrara: una lunga fuga iniziata su imbeccata di Julinho e conclusa in rete con un forte tiro angolato.
È lui, il più giovane giocatore della Fiorentina campione d’Italia per la prima volt nel 1955-56.
Nazionale nella giovanile e nella squadra militare, vinse, con la maglia viola, anche la Coppa Grasshoppers 1952-57 e la Coppa dell’Amicizia Italo-Francese 1959.
Una vicenda segnata da errori sul calciomercato lo portò lontano da Firenze, dove è poi tornato a vivere, ma riuscì comunque a vincere e convincere.
È stato un grande giocatore ed un ottimo allenatore; è una persona educata e squisita che sa spiegare il calcio.
In maglia viola dal 1955 al 1959 con 34 presenze e 1 rete.
Categoria “Giocatori”
HoF 2022
Riconoscimenti
Growing up in the team managed by his father, he had established himself as one of the best players of his generation. At the age of seventeen, all the observers of national football were emphasising his great talents. Fiorentina managed to secure him, snatching him away from stiff competition. After two years with the boys, the big leap, with his participation in the Abbadia San Salvatore retreat, the appreciation of Bernardini, the convocations in that team that did wonders, and the starting jersey with a goal in Ferrara: a long breakaway that began on Julinho’s feed and ended in the net with a strong angled shot.
He was the youngest player in the Fiorentina team that won Italy for the first time in 1955-56.
A national player in the youth and military teams, he also won, with the purple jersey, the 1952-57 Grasshoppers Cup and the 1959 Italian-French Friendship Cup.
An affair marked by mistakes on the football market took him far from Florence, where he later returned to live, but he still managed to win and convince.
He was a great player and an excellent coach; he is a polite and exquisite person who knows how to explain football.
In the purple jersey from 1955 to 1959 with 34 appearances and 1 goal.
Category “Players”
HoF 2022
CASTELLETTI Sergio
Un grande terzino, protagonista del calcio nazionale. Arrivato a Firenze a ventun anni scelse la città e la squadra di calcio, tanto da piangere al momento della sua cessione. Costituì, con Robotti, una coppia di terzini che raccolse l’eredità di Magnini e Cervato, in maglia viola e in quella azzurra della Nazionale. Quello di Sergio, con la Fiorentina, è un palmarès di valore assoluto: una Coppa delle Coppe, una Mitropa Cup, due Coppe Italia, duecentosessantadue presenze ufficiali in viola e sette con l’Italia. La sua storia d’amore con la Fiorentina proseguì allenando i giovani.
Categoria “Giocatori”
HoF 2019
Riconoscimenti
A great full-back, a protagonist of national football. Arriving in Florence at the age of twenty-one he chose the city and the football team, so much so that he cried at the time of his sale. Together with Robotti, he formed a full-back pairing which took up the legacy of Magnini and Cervato, in both the purple jersey and that of the national team. Sergio’s, with Fiorentina, is a palmarès of the highest value: a Cup-Winners’ Cup, a Mitropa Cup, two Coppa Italias, two hundred and sixty-two official appearances in Viola and seven with Italy. His love affair with Fiorentina continued by coaching the young players.
Category “Players”
HoF 2019
CERVATO Sergio
Aveva soltanto diciannove anni quando arrivò alla Fiorentina. Quando ci lasciò ne aveva trenta ed era capitano della squadra. Per la nostra bacheca donò uno Scudetto, una Coppa Grasshoppers e il titolo di Vicecampioni d’Europa. 340 incontri ufficiali, e oltre trenta reti, con la maglia viola, 25 presenze e 3 reti nella Nazionale maggiore, di cui fu anche capitano, ne fanno un pilastro della storia viola e del football nazionale. La medesima facilità con il quale calciava il pallone da atleta, la usava nell’insegnare il calcio e la vita ai ragazzi delle giovanili viola. Onore all’erede naturale del terzino del Grande Torino Virgilio Maroso.
Categoria “Giocatori”
HoF 2015
Riconoscimenti
He was only nineteen when he arrived at Fiorentina. By the time he left us, he was thirty and was captain of the team. For our trophy cabinet he contributed to a Scudetto, a Grasshoppers Cup and the title of Vice-Champions of Champions Cup. 340 official matches, and over thirty goals, with the purple jersey, 25 appearances and 3 goals in the senior national team, of which he was also captain, make him a pillar of the Viola and national football history. The same ease with which he kicked the ball as a player, he used in teaching football and life to the boys of the Viola youth teams. Honour to the natural heir of the Grande Torino full-back Virgilio Maroso.
Category “Players”
HoF 2015
CHIAPPELLA Giuseppe
Per diciotto anni, ininterrottamente, nella Fiorentina: giocatore, prima, allenatore, poi. Contribuisce in maniera determinante alla conquista del primo storico scudetto nel 1956 ed è uno dei capisaldi del blocco difensivo viola che gioca in Nazionale. Un combattente, in campo, sempre attento al proprio compito ed a sostenere e guidare i compagni. Da allenatore in seconda vince Coppa delle Coppe e Coppa Italia nel 1961. Da allenatore vince la Coppa Italia e la Coppa Mitropa nel 1966, anno in cui viene premiato con il “Seminatore d’Oro”; ha il grande merito di plasmare la Fiorentina ye-ye che si aggiudicherà il secondo scudetto nel 1969. Torna sulla panchina viola nel febbraio 1978 e conduce la squadra alla salvezza.
Categoria “Giocatori”
HoF 2012
Riconoscimenti
For eighteen years, without interruption, in Fiorentina: first as a player, then as coach. He made a decisive contribution to winning the first historic Scudetto in 1956 and is one of the cornerstones of the purple defensive wall that plays in the national team. A fighter, on the field, always attentive to his task and in supporting and guiding his teammates. As an assistant manager, he won both the Cup-Winners’ Cup and the Coppa Italia in 1961. As a coach he won the Coppa Italia and the Mitropa Cup in 1966, the year in which he was awarded the “Seminatore d’Oro”; he has the great merit of shaping the Fiorentina ye-ye who will win the second Scudetto in 1969. He returns to the Viola bench in February 1978 and leads the team to safety.
Category “Players”
HoF 2012
CHIARUGI Luciano
Rappresenta il sogno di ogni bambino che diventa realtà: un’infanzia trascorsa soltanto a pensare al pallone, tutte le squadre giovanili della sua squadra, le domeniche a fare da raccattapalle durante gli incontri dei grandi con il sogno, un giorno, di esserci. Grazie alla sua tenacia e al suo talento, quel giorno arriva. E arrivano anche tante reti anticipate da tanti dribbling che facevano impazzire i difensori avversari e noi tifosi. E arriva anche uno scudetto. E arriva anche la panchina di quella squadra: prima i ragazzi e poi, nei momenti difficili, la prima. Se la Fiorentina chiama, Luciano c’è sempre. Per questo lo amiamo.
Categoria “Giocatori”
HoF 2015
Riconoscimenti
He represents every child’s dream that becomes reality: a childhood spent just thinking about the ball, all the youth teams of his club, on Sundays as a ball boy during the games of the senior side, with the dream, one day, of being there. Thanks to his tenacity and talent, that day arrives. And there are also many goals anticipated by many dribbles that drove the opposing defenders and us fans crazy. And a Scudetto also arrives. And the bench of that team also arrives: first the youth team and then, in difficult moments, the first. If Fiorentina calls, Luciano is always there. For this we love him.
Category “Players”
HoF 2015
CHIESA Enrico
Arrivò a Firenze già affermato. Dopo qualche difficoltà iniziale, conquistò tutti a suon di gol, con un repertorio straordinario, che esaltava e veniva celebrato dal pubblico, accompagnato dalla sua qualità migliore: la velocità d’esecuzione. 45 gol in 86 partite, tra campionato e coppe. Fu l’ultimo grande acquisto di Vittorio Cecchi Gori, protagonista del successo viola nella Coppa Italia 2001. Qualche mese dopo un suo grave infortunio tolse alla Fiorentina l’ultima arma per evitare il baratro che si stava spalancando.
Categoria “Giocatori”
HoF 2017
Riconoscimenti
He arrived in Florence already affirmed. After some initial difficulties, he conquered everyone with goals, with an extraordinary repertoire, which exalted and was celebrated by the public, accompanied by his best quality: the speed of execution. 45 goals in 86 games, between league and cups. It was the last big signing of Vittorio Cecchi Gori, protagonist of the Viola success in the 2001 Coppa Italia. A few months later, his serious injury took away the last weapon from Fiorentina to avoid the chasm that was opening up.
Category “Players”
HoF 2017
CIUFFI Mario
Chi non amava Mario Ciuffi? L’ironia invadente che condiva ogni sua manifestazione di tifoso rappresentava in ogni circostanza la fiorentinità polemica e perennemente insoddisfatta dell’andamento delle cose. Fiorentino fino al midollo e tifoso viola in ogni anfratto del cuore, ha alleviato simpaticamente i pre e i post partita in maniera unica e irripetibile. Era impossibile non volergli bene: riusciva a strappare un sorriso anche dopo una bruciante sconfitta. La sua allegra passione ci ha accompagnato per tanti anni, il suo ricordo ci accompagnerà per sempre.
Categoria “Ambasciatori”
HoF 2013
Riconoscimenti
Who did not love Mario Ciuffi? That intrusive irony which accompanied every manifestation of his as a fan, represented in every way the polemical and perennially dissatisfied Florentine spirit with how things are going. Florentine to the core and Viola fan in every corner of his heart, he has pleasantly accompanied the pre and post-game in a unique and unrepeatable way. It was impossible not to love him: he managed to bring a smile even after a burning defeat. His cheerful passion has accompanied us for many years, his memory will accompany us forever.
Category “Ambassadors”
HoF 2013
CONTRATTO Renzo
Il sudore, la fatica e la dedizione sono stati il suo pane quotidiano: se c’era da controllare a vista un pericoloso avversario, tutti i tecnici che sono passati nei suoi otto anni viola sapevano sempre a chi affidarlo. Sotto la grinta e i tasselli di Renzo Contratto sono passati tutti i più grandi della sua epoca: Maradona, Zico, Platini hanno scoperto sulla loro pelle che nel football si emerge grazie al talento, ma anche con la perseveranza e la serietà quotidiana di un atleta straordinario. 288 presenze ufficiali viola, 4 presenze nella Nazionale Olimpica, 6 nell’under 21: il terzino destro del quasi terzo scudetto viola Renzo Contratto.
Categoria “Giocatori”
HoF 2014
Riconoscimenti
Sweat, fatigue and dedication were his daily bread: if there was a dangerous opponent to be checked on sight, all the coaches who passed the Viola in his eight years always knew who to entrust him to. Under the grit and the skills of Renzo Contratto all the greatest of his time have passed: Maradona, Zico, Platini have discovered on their skin that in football one emerges thanks not only to talent, but also with the perseverance and daily seriousness of an extraordinary athlete. 288 official Fiorentina appearances, 4 appearances in the Olympic National team, 6 in the under 21: the right-back of the almost third Viola championship, Renzo Contratto.
Category “Players”
HoF 2014
CSAPKAY Károly
Nelle rare immagini che lo ritraggono, a volte è vestito da atleta della Fiorentina, mentre altre è in borghese accanto ai suoi giocatori. Alla neonata Fiorentina del lontano 1926 occorreva un uomo capace di svolgere il compito di tecnico ma, congiuntamente, talmente vicino al campo da far sentire la sua presenza non come autoritaria, ma cameratesca. Il primo allenatore della storia biancorossa ci riuscì benissimo, svezzando la creatura del marchese Ridolfi con abnegazione e passione.
Categoria “Allenatori”
HoF 2015
Riconoscimenti
In the rare images that portray him, he is sometimes dressed as a Fiorentina athlete, while at others he is in plain clothes next to his players. The newborn Fiorentina of the distant 1926 needed a man capable of carrying out the task of technician but, jointly, so close to the field that his presence was felt not as authoritarian, but comradely. The first coach in red and white history did very well, growing the creation of the Marquis Ridolfi with self-denial and passion.
Category “Coaches”
HoF 2015
DE SISTI Giancarlo
Giocatore ed allenatore amatissimo. Arrivato alla Fiorentina giovanissimo nel 1965, dona geometrie e sapienza per nove anni trionfando da Capitano nel secondo scudetto viola. La sua abilità calcistica, accompagnata da una serietà professionale eccezionale, lo portano ad essere protagonista in Nazionale: Campione d’Europa nel 1968 e vice campione del mondo nel 1970. Tornò a Firenze da allenatore ed ammirammo una delle più belle Fiorentina della storia: quella del 1983-84 quando solo l’infortunio di Antognoni negò il possibile tricolore. Lo scudetto sfiorato all’ultima giornata nel 1982 è il più grande rammarico di questo formidabile tecnico.
Categoria “Giocatori”
HoF 2013
Riconoscimenti
Beloved player and coach. Arriving at Fiorentina very young in 1965, he gave geometry and wisdom for nine years, triumphing as Captain in the second Viola championship win. His football skills, accompanied by an exceptional professional seriousness, lead him to be a protagonist in the national team: European champion in 1968 and vice World champion in 1970. He returned to Florence as a coach, and we admired one of the most beautiful Fiorentina teams in history: that 1983-84 when only Antognoni’s injury denied the possible tricolor. The Scudetto missed on the last day in 1982 is the greatest regret of this formidable coach.
Category “Players”
HoF 2013
DESOLATI Claudio
Dieci campionati con la maglia viola, suggellati dalla vittoria della Coppa Italia 1974-75 e della Coppa di Lega Italo Inglese nel 1975, con la presenza in tutte le selezioni nazionali giovanili e nella Nazionale Militare.
Fuori dal campo portava un impermeabile lungo con bavero alzato, che gli valse, nello spogliatoio, il soprannome di “Humprey Bogart”.
In campo era un centravanti moderno che giocava facendosi già notare quando ancora imperavano gli arieti del tempo epico del pallone.
In Viola ha regalato gioie alla Curva Fiesole e inanellato perle storiche, come aver messo a sedere il grande Dino Zoff a soli 17 anni o la tripletta di platino tecnico all’Inter: testa imperiale, bomba da fuori, pallonetto di classe.
Che genio!
Dotato di tecnica sopraffina ed eleganza nei movimenti, forte nelle acrobazie incarna l’animo della Fiorentina tutta, per la sfortunata lotta contro il destino segnato dagli infortuni e la bramosia mai doma di successi.
Ha ottenuto meno riconoscimenti di quanti avrebbe meritato per la qualità del gioco espresso allora, ma oggi riscuote tutto l’amore che ha suscitato dando sempre tutto in campo per la sua Fiorentina.
In maglia viola dal 1971 al 1981 con 201 presenze e 58 reti.
Categoria “Calciatori”
HoF 2022
Riconoscimenti
Ten championships with the purple jersey, sealed by the victory of the 1974-75 Coppa Italia and the Italian-English League Cup in 1975, with appearances in all the national youth selections and the National Military Team.
Off the field he wore a long mackintosh with lapels turned up, which earned him the nickname ‘Humprey Bogart’ in the locker room.
On the pitch, he was a modern centre forward who played when the battering rams of the epic time of the ball still reigned.
In the Viola, he brought joy to the Curva Fiesole and racked up historic gems, such as knocking out the great Dino Zoff at only 17 years of age, or the technical platinum hat-trick against Inter: imperial header, bomb from outside, classy lob.
What a genius!
Gifted with superlative technique and elegance in his movements, strong in his acrobatics, he embodied the soul of Fiorentina as a whole, for the unfortunate struggle against destiny marked by injuries and the untamed lust for success.
He got less recognition than he would have deserved for the quality of the game he expressed at the time, but today he reaps all the love he got by always giving his all on the pitch for his Fiorentina.
In the purple jersey from 1971 to 1981 with 201 appearances and 58 goals.
Category “Players”
HoF 2022
DI LIVIO Angelo
Arrivò a Firenze tra qualche mugugno, ma ci pensò Mario Ciuffi a mettere tutti d’accordo con il rito laico della degobbizzazione. Aspettavamo un soldatino e abbiamo trovato un capitano. Un uomo che dava tutto in campo e anche fuori, provando a fare da scudo al fallimento della Fiorentina.
Un capitano vero non abbandona mai la nave che affonda, Angelo passò dalla Coppa del Mondo 2002 allo stadio di Gualdo Tadino, diventando il simbolo del ritorno in serie A della Fiorentina.
Vincitore della Coppa Italia 2001, del campionato di C2 2003, dello spareggio promozione 2004, salutiamo con onore l’ingresso di Angelo Di Livio nella Hall of Fame Viola.
Categoria “Giocatori”
HoF 2023
Riconoscimenti
He arrived in Florence amidst some grumbling, but Mario Ciuffi took care of getting everyone to agree with the secular rite of degobbization. We were waiting for a toy soldier and we found a captain. A man who gave everything on and off the pitch, trying to shield Fiorentina’s failure.
A true captain never abandons a sinking ship, Angelo moved from the 2002 World Cup to the Gualdo Tadino stadium, becoming the symbol of Fiorentina’s return to Serie A.
Winner of the 2001 Italian Cup, the 2003 C2 championship, the 2004 promotion play-off, we honor with honor the entry of Angelo Di Livio into the Viola Hall of Fame.
Category “Players”
HoF 2023
DUNGA Carlos
Piazzato davanti alla difesa riceveva la palla o se la prendeva arpionandola dai piedi avversari e lanciandola sempre dove doveva andare. Quando qualcuno decise che la sua stagione a Firenze era finita, scese un’ombra oscura sul centrocampo viola e senza di lui in campo fu retrocessione. Ce ne ricordammo in quella sera della finale mondiale di Pasadena, quando Carlos il cucciolo alzò la Coppa del Mondo in faccia a Sacchi e al suo ex compagno Baggio: era lui il più forte, il resto non contava. Mille battaglie, 122 presenze in maglia viola e un mantra tra il popolo viola, che non finirà mai “ci manca uno alla Dunga…”
Categoria “Giocatori”
HoF 2017
Riconoscimenti
Placed in front of the defense, he received the ball or took it by harpooning it from the opponent’s feet and always sending it where it needed to go. When someone decided that his season in Florence was over, a dark shadow fell on the Fiorentina midfield, and without him on the pitch they were relegated. We remembered it on that night of the World Cup final in Pasadena, when Carlos the puppy lifted the World Cup in the face of Sacchi and his former partner Baggio: he was the strongest, the rest didn’t matter. A thousand battles, 122 appearances in the Fiorentina shirt and a mantra among the Viola fans, which will never end “we’re missing a Dunga …”
Category “Players”
HoF 2017
ESPOSITO Salvatore
La sapienza di Pandolfini e dei suoi collaboratori lo portò a Firenze appena quattordicenne. Crebbe nel vivaio viola vincendo il Torneo di Viareggio 1966. Esordì in prima squadra a 18 anni diventando uno dei maggiori protagonisti della Fiorentina ye ye. Dotato di grande intelligenza tattica, inesauribile nella corsa, ottima tecnica, fu il completamento ideale del centrocampo viola. Ceduto troppo presto tornò a Firenze da allenatore per far crescere i giovani viola con i quali vinse il Torneo di Viareggio nel 1988.
Siamo onorati di salutare l’ingresso nella Hall of Fame Viola di Salvatore, “Ciccio”, Esposito, Campione d’Italia con la Fiorentina 1968-69!
Categoria “Giocatori”
HoF 2023
Riconoscimenti
The wisdom of Pandolfini and his collaborators brought him to Florence when he was just fourteen. He grew up in the Viola’s youth team, winning the 1966 Viareggio Tournament. He made his debut in the first team at 18, becoming one of the major protagonists of Fiorentina ye ye. Equipped with great tactical intelligence, inexhaustible running, excellent technique, he was the ideal complement to the Viola midfield. Having been sold too soon, he returned to Florence as a coach to develop the young Viola with whom he won the Viareggio Tournament in 1988.
We are honored to welcome the entry into the Viola Hall of Fame of Salvatore, “Ciccio”, Esposito, Italian Champion with Fiorentina 1968-69!
Category “Players”
HoF 2023
FANTAPPIÉ Rigoletto
Il decano dei tifosi della Fiorentina. Era presente da bambino alla prima gara ufficiale in biancorosso allo stadio di via Bellini nel 1926. Ha fatto parte, negli anni Trenta, dell’Ordine del Marzocco, primo club di sostenitori della Fiorentina. maestro della storia e della vita della Fiorentina, di cui è stato tifoso, organizzatore e dirigente delle associazioni del tifo, Socio, Consigliere. Senatore del Museo della Fiorentina.
Categoria “Ambasciatori”
HoF 2012
Riconoscimenti
The dean of Fiorentina fans. He was present as a child at the first official red and white match at the stadium in via Bellini in 1926. In the 1930s, he was part of the Order of the Marzocco, the first club of Fiorentina supporters. Maestro of the history and life of Fiorentina, of which he was a fan, organizer and manager of the supporter’s associations, member, councilor. Senator of the Museo Fiorentina.
Category “Ambassadors”
HoF 2012
FERRANTE Ugo
Aveva 18 anni quando arrivò a Firenze, con un fisico già imponente, una valigia piena di speranze e un sorriso che riuscì a rimanere sempre giovane. Erano anni in cui il calcio italiano vinceva e si distingueva per un ruolo particolare: il libero. Di quel ruolo fu uno dei maggiori interpreti, libero nella Fiorentina ye-ye, baluardo della difesa in quella straordinaria avventura. Campione d’Italia 1968-69 e Vicecampione del Mondo, con la Nazionale azzurra in Messico nel 1970. Un gigante della storia gigliata dove, a pieno titolo, ci sono anche i suoi capelli, tagliati in diretta alla Domenica Sportiva l’11 maggio 1969.
Categoria “Giocatori”
HoF 2017
Riconoscimenti
He was 18 when he arrived in Florence, with an already imposing physique, a suitcase full of hope and a smile that always managed to remain youthful. Those were the years in which Italian football was successful, and where it distinguished itself for one particular role: the libero. He was one of the greatest interpreters of that role, libero in the Fiorentina ye-ye, a stronghold of the defense in that extraordinary adventure. Champion of Italy 1968-69 and Vice-champion of the World, with the Italian national team in Mexico in 1970. A giant of Fiorentina history where, with full rights, there is also his hair, cut live on TV, on Domenica Sportiva on 11 May 1969 .
Category “Players”
HoF 2017
FRANCHI Artemio
È stato il più grande dirigente del calcio italiano. Tifoso viola fin da bambino, cominciò la sua carriera di dirigente tra gli arbitri e poi nella Fiorentina, di cui fu segretario fra il 1949 e il 1952. Rimase sempre socio della Fiorentina non mancando di intervenire alle assemblee. Arrivò ai vertici del calcio italiano, europeo e mondiale: fu presidente della FIGC (per due volte); presidente della UEFA; vicepresidente della FIFA. Con lui il Centro Tecnico di Coverciano divenne l’università del calcio europeo, la Nazionale fu campione d’Europa nel 1968, Vice campione del mondo nel 1970, e Campione nel 1982.
Categoria “Dirigenti”
HoF 2019
Riconoscimenti
He was the greatest director of Italian football. A Viola fan since childhood, he began his career as a manager among the referees and then in Fiorentina, of which he was secretary between 1949 and 1952. He always remained a member of Fiorentina, never failing to attend the assemblies. He reached the top of Italian, European and world football: he was president of the FIGC (twice); UEFA president; vice president of FIFA. With him, the Technical Center of Coverciano became the university of European football, the national team was champion of Europe in 1968, vice World champion in 1970, and champion in 1982.
Category “Executives”
HoF 2019
FREY Sébastien
Aveva venticinque anni quando si trasferì a Firenze, giocatore già affermato, uno dei migliori, nel sui ruolo, della serie A. La Fiorentina, dopo la grande paura della retrocessione vissuta nel torneo 2004-05, nutriva grandi ambizioni. La costruzione della squadra passava anche dall’assicurarsi un grande portiere, un numero uno. Venne scelto bene. Un portiere che sfoderò grandi prestazioni, conquistò una leadership nel gruppo grazie alla sua personalità e alla capacità di prendersi tutte le responsabilità. Un amore, ricambiato, con il pubblico e con la Fiesole che quei capelli ossigenati hanno reso un coro unico nel suo genere. Magiche notti europee come col rigore decisivo parato a Goodison Park con l’Everton e la vittoria in Champions sul Liverpool ad Anfield Road, poi interrotte bruscamente a Monaco di Baviera solo per l’arbitraggio incomprensibile di Ovrebo. Un ciclo entusiasmante, ricco di soddisfazioni, anche se privo di successi.
Un addio amaro per tutti, il suo, dopo sei anni con la nostra maglia numero 1, rinnovando la grande tradizione dei portieri gigliati e innamorandosi per sempre della piazza e della città di Firenze.
In maglia viola dal 2005 al 2011 con 218 presenze.
Categoria “Giocatori”
HoF 2022
Riconoscimenti
He was twenty-five years old when he moved to Florence, already an established player, one of the best in Serie A in his role. Fiorentina, after the great fear of relegation experienced in the 2004-05 tournament, had great ambitions. Building the team also meant securing a great goalkeeper, a number one. He was chosen well. A goalkeeper who showed great performances, gained leadership in the group thanks to his personality and ability to take all the responsibility. A love, reciprocated, with the public and with the Fiesole that those bleached hairs made into a unique chorus. Magical European nights like with the decisive penalty parried at Goodison Park against Everton and the Champions League victory over Liverpool at Anfield Road, then abruptly interrupted in Munich only for Ovrebo’s incomprehensible refereeing. An exciting cycle, full of satisfaction, even if lacking in success.
A bitter farewell for everyone, his, after six years wearing our number 1 jersey, renewing the great tradition of the Gigliati goalkeepers and forever falling in love with the piazza and the city of Florence.
In the purple jersey from 2005 to 2011 with 218 appearances.
Category “Players”
HoF 2022
GALDIOLO Giancarlo
Una delle poche certezze per gli allenatori della Fiorentina che hanno avuto la fortuna di allenarlo durante la settimana e di schierarlo la domenica pomeriggio. Nessuno rinunciò mai alla solidità di Giancarlo. Trecentoquindici gare ufficiali in viola lo collocano a ridosso dei primi dieci in oltre novanta anni di storia della Fiorentina. Trecentoquindici maglie sudate, rispettate, onorate ed amate. Dieci campionati di serie A, con la vittoria della Coppa Italia 1975 e della Coppa di Lega Italo-Inglese dello stesso anno. Se fossi qui adesso diresti che non meriti tanto. Per tutti noi non meriti così poco.
Categoria “Giocatori”
HoF 2018
Riconoscimenti
One of the few certainties for the Fiorentina coaches who were lucky enough to train him during the week and to field him on Sunday afternoon. Nobody ever gave up on Giancarlo’s solidity. Three hundred and fifteen official Viola matches place him close to the top ten in over ninety years of Fiorentina’s history. Three hundred and fifteen sweaty shirts, respected, honored and loved. Ten Serie A championships, with the victory of the 1975 Coppa Italia and the Anglo Italian Cup of the same year. If you were here now you would say you didn’t deserve so much. For all of us, you don’t deserve so little.
Category “Players”
HoF 2018
GALLI Giovanni
L’esordio in prima squadra arrivò nel momento più difficile, con il baratro della retrocessione già spalancato, ma con quel ragazzo la porta viola era in buone e salde mani e la Fiorentina fu salva. Giovanni Galli, nel 1982 Campione del Mondo e Vice Campione d’Italia, era il degno erede dei grandi numeri uno che lo avevano preceduto: Griffanti, Costagliola, Sarti, Albertosi, Superchi. É diventato il portiere con più presenze in serie A nella porta della Fiorentina. Più volte dirigente del club, toccò a lui l’onere della ricostruzione della squadra nel 2002.
Categoria “Giocatori”
HoF 2013
Riconoscimenti
The debut in the first team came at the most difficult moment, with the abyss of relegation already wide open, but with that boy the Viola goal was in good firm hands, and Fiorentina were saved. Giovanni Galli, World Champion and Vice-Champion of Italy in 1982, was the worthy heir to the great number ones that preceded him: Griffanti, Costagliola, Sarti, Albertosi, Superchi. He became the goalkeeper with the most Serie A appearances in Fiorentina’s goal. Several times as a director of the club, the burden of rebuilding the team fell to him in 2002.
Category “Players”
HoF 2013
GERMOGLI Roberto
Il suo giornale, “La Nazione”, dove era entrato a 17 anni nel 1958, l’ha salutato definendolo “artista dell’immagine”. Ha immortalato i protagonisti della storia viola nei loro gesti tecnici ed umani per circa 60 anni. Lo scatto di un grande fotografo è come il tocco di un grande calciatore: tutti capiscono guardando le sue foto. Questa era l’arte di Roberto, iniziata nel tempo in cui la televisione e il web non c’erano e il racconto delle partite, viste solo da chi andava allo stadio, doveva essere accompagnato dalle fotocronache.
Categoria “Ambasciatori”
HoF 2019
Riconoscimenti
His newspaper, “La Nazione”, which he joined at the age of 17 in 1958, hailed him as an “artist of the image”. He has immortalized the protagonists of the Fiorentina story in their technical and human gestures for about 60 years. The shot of a great photographer is like the touch of a great footballer: everyone understands by looking at his photos. This was Roberto’s art, which began in a time when there was no television or internet, and the story of the matches, seen only by those who went to the stadium, had to be accompanied by photo chronicles.
Category “Ambassadors”
HoF 2019
GRATTON Guido
Fulvio Bernardini lo volle a tutti costi nella sua squadra, trasformando una mezzala offensiva in un centrocampista completo che fece la fortuna della grande Fiorentina degli anni Cinquanta. Era uno dei sempre presenti nei successi, nei quattro secondi posti, nella finale di Madrid, nella vittoria della Coppa Grasshoppers. Con i suoi compagni fu protagonista in viola e in Nazionale. Pittore, allenatore, maestro di tennis, venuto dal Friuli scelse di rimanere a vivere qui dove, purtroppo, venne barbaramente ucciso.
Omaggiamo il Campione d’Italia Guido Gratton salutando con gioia il suo ingresso nella Hall of Fame Viola.
Categoria “Giocatori”
HoF 2023
Riconoscimenti
Fulvio Bernardini wanted him in his team at all costs, transforming an attacking midfielder into a complete midfielder who made the fortune of the great Fiorentina of the 1950s. He was one of those always present in the successes, in the four second places, in the Madrid final, in the victory of the Grasshoppers Cup. With his teammates he was a protagonist in viola and in the national team. Painter, coach, tennis teacher, who came from Friuli and chose to remain and live here where, unfortunately, he was barbarically killed.
We pay homage to the Italian Champion Guido Gratton by joyfully greeting his entry into the Viola Hall of Fame.
Category “Players”
HoF 2023
GRAZIANI Francesco
Il suo acquisto fu il segno della rinnovata ambizione viola: si compra il centravanti della Nazionale, si vuol vincere lo scudetto. A Firenze venne subito avvertito come “uno di famiglia”. Uno che, assieme a Pecci e Bertoni, reagì alla grande paura per Giancarlo caricandosi la squadra sulle spalle. “Ciccio” il centravanti del terzo scudetto, quello negato dagli arbitraggi di Catanzaro e Cagliari. Un attaccante completo, Campione del Mondo 1982 come giocatore viola.. Al momento del bisogno sedette sulla nostra panchina, fino ad Avellino, a guidare la squadra in una amara Finale UEFA già decisa altrove.
Categoria “Giocatori”
HoF 2019
Riconoscimenti
His purchase was the sign of the renewed Fiorentina ambition: you buy the center forward of the national team, you want to win the Scudetto. In Florence he was immediately perceived as “one of the family”. One who, together with Pecci and Bertoni, reacted to the great fear for Giancarlo by loading the team on his shoulders. “Ciccio” the center forward of the third championship, the one denied by the referees of Catanzaro and Cagliari. A complete striker, 1982 World Champion as a Viola player. When needed, he took over as team manager, right up to Avellino, to lead the team in a bitter UEFA Final already decided elsewhere.
Category “Players”
HoF 2019
HAMRIN Kurt Roland
Sua maestà il gol. L’ala svedese, soprannominata dai tifosi “Uccellino”, è il calciatore che ha realizzato il maggior numero di reti, in partite ufficiali, con la maglia della Fiorentina. Ha vestito la maglia viola per nove anni, diventando capitano. Tutti gli aggettivi per descrivere le sue gesta sono riduttivi. A Firenze ha vinto una Coppa delle Coppe, una Coppa Mitropa e una Coppa Italia. Uno svedese che ha amato tanto Firenze da sceglierla come residenza anche dopo la fine della carriera, fiorentino tra i fiorentini. Semplicemente immenso.
Categoria “Giocatori”
HoF 2012
Riconoscimenti
His majesty the goal. The Swedish winger, nicknamed “Little Birdie” by the fans, is the player who has scored the most goals in official matches with the Fiorentina shirt. He wore the purple jersey for nine years, becoming captain. All the adjectives to describe his deeds are reductive. In Florence he won a Cup Winners’ Cup, a Mitropa Cup and a Coppa Italia. A Swede who loved Florence so much that he chose it as a residence even after the end of his career, a Florentine among the Florentines. Simply immense.
Category “Players”
HoF 2012
JULINHO
É il football. Bernardini lo ha capito, vedendolo giocare ai Mondiali del 1954 e lo insegue. Con la palla tra i suoi piedi il calcio diventa arte ricamando finte, dribbling, palleggi, assist e reti. Tre stupendi anni a Firenze dal 1955 al 1958 nei quali vince tanto e va vicino a vincere tutto: lo Scudetto, la Coppa Grasshoppers e quella finale di Coppa dei Campioni perduta contro il potente Real Madrid. Julinho è stato la più grande star di livello mondiale che abbia indossato la maglia gigliata. 96 presenze e 23 reti rappresentano il bottino numerico di un Amore profondo, grandissimo e reciproco con la città di Firenze che va ben oltre le statistiche. Julinho!
Categoria “Giocatori”
HoF 2013
Riconoscimenti
He is football. Bernardini understood this, seeing him play at the 1954 World Cup and looked to buy him. With the ball between his feet, football becomes art by embroidering feints, dribbles, assists and goals. Three wonderful years in Florence from 1955 to 1958 in which he wins a lot and comes close to winning everything: the Scudetto, the Grasshoppers Cup and the final of the Champions Cup, lost against the powerful Real Madrid. Julinho was the biggest world star to ever wear the Fiorentina jersey. 96 appearances and 23 goals represent the numerical spoils of a profound, very great and mutual love with the city of Florence that goes far beyond the statistics. Julinho!
Category “Players”
HoF 2013
MAGNINI Ardico
Ha dedicato alla Fiorentina otto anni fatti di potenza, acrobazie, anticipi e generosità. Un grande atleta. É il guerriero del tricolore, colui che intimorisce gli avversari con il suo fisico e la sua determinazione senza mai sconfinare nella scorrettezza. La carriera di Ardico è stata straordinaria come lo è solo la carriera di un campione, costellata di grandi traguardi sportivi: lo scudetto del 1955-56, la Coppa Grasshoppers, la finale della Coppa dei Campioni persa a Madrid contro il Real, venti presenze in Nazionale. Magnini fa parte dei campioni per sempre, una squadra fatta di grandi ed inseparabili amici che portarono il primo scudetto a Firenze.
Categoria “Giocatori”
HoF 2013
Riconoscimenti
He dedicated eight years of power, acrobatics, advances and generosity to Fiorentina. A great athlete. He is the warrior of the tricolor, the one who intimidates his opponents with his physique and his determination without ever encroaching into incorrectness. Ardico’s career has been as extraordinary as only the career of a champion, studded with great sporting achievements: the 1955-56 Scudetto, the Grasshoppers Cup, the final of the European Cup lost in Madrid against Real, twenty appearances for the national team. Magnini is one of the everlasting champions, a team made up of great and inseparable friends who brought the first Scudetto to Florence.
Category “Players”
HoF 2013
MANTOVANI Carlino
Coloro che nel Novecento raccontavano un incontro di football dovevano essere concentrati sulle azioni di gioco, sugli schemi, sui gesti degli atleti e, contemporaneamente, annotare rapidamente tutto su un taccuino. Da quell’inchiostro scaturiva il romanzo della partita e, leggendo quelle cronache, ancora oggi pare di essere presenti. Chi praticava quel mestiere doveva avere competenza, equilibrio e spirito di analisi. Niente televisione, niente radio: soltanto una penna e una montagna di passione per la sua Fiorentina.
Categoria “Ambasciatori”
HoF 2015
Riconoscimenti
Those who recounted a football match in the twentieth century had to concentrate on the game’s actions, on the systems, on the athletes’ gestures and, at the same time, quickly write everything down in a notebook. The story of the match sprang from that ink and, reading those chronicles, it still seems to be present today. Those who practiced that trade had to have competence, balance and a spirit of analysis. No television, no radio: just a pen and a mountain of passion for his Fiorentina.
Category “Ambassadors”
HoF 2015
MARASCHI Mario
Dopo tante avventure da ala offensiva arrivò a Firenze e cominciò, per lui e per noi, un tempo nuovo, quello di Maraschi il bomber. Sarà lui il nuovo centravanti: fortissimo nelle gambe, esplosivo, furbissimo tatticamente, forse unico nella capacità di difendere il pallone e soprattutto letale e freddissimo quando si trattava di battere a rete. 79 presenze e trentun gol con la nostra maglia, 14 nell’anno dello scudetto 1968-69. Il numero nove che, coi suoi compagni, fece trionfare quindicimila cuori viola nello stadio bianconero.
Categoria “Giocatori”
HoF 2018
Riconoscimenti
After many adventures as an offensive winger he arrived in Florence and began, for him and for us, a new time, that of Maraschi the bomber. He will be the new centre-forward: very strong legs, explosive, very clever tactically, perhaps unique in his ability to defend the ball and above all lethal and calculating when it came to hitting the net. 79 appearances and thirty-one goals with our shirt, 14 in the 1968-69 Scudetto year. The number nine who, along with his teammates, made fifteen thousand Viola hearts triumph in the Juventus stadium.
Category “Players”
HoF 2018
MASIERI Giampiero
Il suo stile asciutto riflette la sua fiorentinità. Ha riempito le cronache della nostra squadra da oltre cinque decenni con una ricchezza di ricordi e di singoli episodi che ne hanno fatto una sorta di enciclopedia della storia del Club. Sin dal primo momento ha messo a disposizione del Museo Fiorentina le sue competenze per donare disinteressatamente tutto ciò che aveva vissuto. Ha visto con i suoi occhi i più grandi Campioni della Fiorentina e li ha raccontati per tutti noi.
Categoria “Ambasciatori”
HoF 2016
Riconoscimenti
His dry style reflects his Florentine character. For over five decades he has filled the news of our team with a wealth of memories and individual episodes that have made it a sort of encyclopedia of the history of the Club. From the very beginning he made his skills available to the Museo Fiorentina to selflessly donate all that he had experienced. He saw with his own eyes the greatest champions of Fiorentina and recounted them for all of us.
Category “Ambassadors”
HoF 2016
MAZZONI Mario
É stato per la Fiorentina lo stesso di un padre per il proprio figlio: anche il più scavezzacollo sa che, in caso di necessità, il suo babbo c’è. Ecco, Mario era questo: oltre ad allevare tanti giovani campioni viola ed a vincere innumerevoli trofei con i suoi ragazzi, rispose sempre presente quando la prima squadra ebbe bisogno della sua saggezza e della sua esperienza. Trent’anni nella Fiorentina con la perla di una Coppa Italia vinta a Roma nel 1975 contro ogni pronostico e della quale è, insieme ai suoi ragazzi, l’autentico vincitore. Mario Mazzoni una vita per la Fiorentina.
Categoria “Allenatori”
HoF 2014
Riconoscimenti
For Fiorentina, he was the same as a father for his own son: even the most daredevil knows that, in his hour of need, his father is there. This is what Mario was: in addition to raising many young Viola champions and winning countless trophies with his boys, he always answered when the first team needed his wisdom and experience. Thirty years in Fiorentina with the pearl of a Coppa Italia won in Rome in 1975 against all odds and of which he is, together with his boys, the real winner. Mario Mazzoni a life for Fiorentina.
Category “Coaches”
HoF 2014
MENCUCCI Sandro
Fiorentino, dottore commercialista, fino al 2006 ricopre la carica di Sindaco del Collegio dei Revisori presso la F.I.G.C. e la Lega Nazionale Dilettanti ed è, nei suoi anni di servizio per la Fiorentina, il primo Amministratore Delegato dell’era Della Valle. In questo ruolo conquista i titoli nazionali con le squadre Allievi e Giovanissimi e le vittorie in Coppa Italia e Supercoppa con la squadra Primavera. Presidente della Fiorentina Women’s che vince storicamente nella stagione 2016-17 lo Scudetto e la Coppa Italia.
Categoria “Dirigenti”
HoF 2017
Riconoscimenti
Fiorentino, chartered accountant, until 2006 he held the position of Statutory Auditor of the Board of Auditors at F.I.G.C. and the Lega Nazionale Dilettanti and was, in his years of service for Fiorentina, the first CEO of the Della Valle era. In this role he won the national titles with the youth teams, and the victories in the Coppa Italia and Supercoppa with the Primavera team. President of Fiorentina Women, who historically won the Scudetto and the Coppa Italia in the 2016-17 season.
Category “Executives”
HoF 2017
MENTI Romeo
La profonda amicizia che lega il viola di Firenze con il granata di Torino ha il volto di Romeo “Meo Menti”, formidabile ala destra della Fiorentina, del Torino e della Nazionale. Una sorte malefica ha interrotto la sua vita e quella di altri straordinari campioni, suoi compagni, a soli 30 anni. Il tremendo impatto del 4 maggio 1949 gli ha strappato il respiro, ma non la spilla della Fiorentina che portava orgogliosamente sul bavero della giacca e grazie alla quale il suo straziato corpo fu subito tristemente riconosciuto. Un grande uomo, un grande Campione, un grande amico di Firenze, della Fiorentina e del Torino.
Categoria “Giocatori”
HoF 2016
Riconoscimenti
The deep friendship that binds the purple of Florence with the garnet red of Turin has the face of Romeo “Meo Menti”, formidable right winger of Fiorentina, Torino and the national team. An evil fate interrupted his life and that of other extraordinary champions, his companions, when he was only 30 years old. The terrible crash of May 4, 1949 took his life away, but not the Fiorentina pin that he proudly wore on his jacket collar and thanks to which his mangled body was immediately sadly recognized. A great man, a great champion, a great friend of Florence, Fiorentina and Torino.
Category “Players”
HoF 2016
MERLO Claudio
Una vecchia immagine senza colori ce lo ricorda giovanissimo, la faccia da bambino monello vestito in giacca e cravatta per il suo arrivo a Firenze nel 1965. In undici anni alla Fiorentina Claudio Merlo ha colorato quella fotografia di viola ed è diventato uomo indossando i panni dell’atleta. Undici anni fatti di 367 battaglie combattute in prima linea, senza mai ritirarsi nelle retrovie. Uno Scudetto, due Coppe Italia, una Coppa Mitropa, una Coppa di Lega italo-inglese, una presenza in Nazionale, otto nell’under 23, una in quella di Lega ma soprattutto la concretezza di un grande giocatore dal cuore sinceramente viola.
Categoria “Giocatori”
HoF 2014
Riconoscimenti
An old colourless image reminds us of him when he was very young, the face of a bratty child dressed in a suit and tie for his arrival in Florence in 1965. In eleven years at Fiorentina Claudio Merlo coloured that photograph purple and became a man wearing the clothes of the athlete. Eleven years of 367 battles fought on the front line, without ever retreating to the rear. A Scudetto, two Coppa Italias, a Mitropa Cup, an Anglo Italian Cup, a presence in the national team, eight in the under 23, but above all the concreteness of a great player with a sincerely purple heart.
Category “Players”
HoF 2014
MONDONICO Emiliano
Un uomo che ha portato in campo e in panchina la sua umanità, assieme alla sua capacità tecnica e tattica. Un allenatore tifoso che riportò la Fiorentina in serie A regalando una soddisfazione enorme. “Mondo” tifoso viola lo era sul serio, con tanto di tessera, dal 1989, di uno dei Viola Club più antichi ed amati: il Settebello, omaggio ai nostri grandi numeri 7: Julinho e Hamrin. Nella sua valigia di tecnico e di tifoso viola tirò fuori quella umanità che sino alla fine della sua vita ha poi utilizzato per seguire ragazzi problematici dando loro la possibilità di esprimere tutta la vitalità che avevano dentro.
Categoria “Allenatori”
HoF 2019
Riconoscimenti
A man who brought his humanity to the field and to the bench, together with his technical and tactical ability. A fan/coach who brought Fiorentina back to Serie A bringing enormous satisfaction. “Mondo” was a real Viola fan, complete with a card, since 1989, of one of the oldest and most loved Viola Clubs: the Settebello, a tribute to our great number 7’s: Julinho and Hamrin. In his career as a coach, and as a Viola fan, he brought out that humanity that until the end of his life he then used to help problematic kids, giving them the opportunity to express all the vitality they had inside
Category “Coaches”
HoF 2019
MONTUORI Miguel Ángel
I molti tifosi che andarono a prenderlo al suo arrivo alla stazione di Firenze non lo avevano mai visto giocare, ma si fidavano dell’intuito di chi lo aveva consigliato: Padre Volpi. Nessuno poteva immaginare cosa avrebbe combinato in Italia l’argentino proveniente dal Cile: con il suo amico fraterno Julinho scombinava le difese avversarie con i suoi dribbling e i suoi movimenti imprevedibili. All’apice della maturità calcistica, lo stesso pallone con il quale giocava quotidianamente, lo tradì con un colpo violento mettendo fine alla sua carriera agonistica. Uno scudetto, una Coppa Grasshoppers, 12 gare in nazionale, terzo nella graduatoria delle reti ufficiali viola con 84 segnature.
Categoria “Giocatori”
HoF 2016
Riconoscimenti
The many fans who went to pick him up on his arrival at the Florence train station had never seen him play, but they trusted the intuition of the man that had recommended him: Father Volpi. No one could have imagined what the Argentine from Chile would have done in Italy: with his close friend Julinho he would upset the opposing defenses with his dribbles and unpredictable movements. At the height of his footballing maturity, the same game he played every day betrayed him with a violent blow, putting an end to his competitive career. A Scudetto, a Grasshoppers Cup, 12 matches wih the national team, third in the ranking of official Fiorentina scorers, with 84 goals.
Category “Players”
HoF 2016
MUTU Adrian
Avevi una classe impressionante destinata a lasciare un segno profondo sui campi di calcio.
Conoscevamo il tuo enorme talento, ma temevamo la tua sregolatezza.
Il nostro allenatore, Cesare Prandelli, che ci aveva convinto con il suo lavoro e voleva riportare la Fiorentina ai posti che le competevano, garantiva per te.
Era anche il tuo allenatore, quello con cui ti eri definitivamente imposto.
Lo ascoltammo, ma noi fiorentini siamo diffidenti e ti aspettavamo alla prova del campo.
La tua classe ci ammutolì e fu subito amore.
Gol, assist, gol, assist, e ancora gol!
Il tuo genio, accompagnato dall’impertinenza che ti contraddistingue e dalla teatralità dei tuoi saluti, ci conquistò.
Come ti inchinavi dopo ogni tua rete nel saluto alla Curva Fiesole, noi oggi ci inchiniamo salutando ‘Il Fenomeno’ che avrà sempre un posto speciale nel cuore di tutta Firenze!
Salutiamo l’ingresso nella Hall of Fame Viola, Categoria Giocatori, di Adrian MUTU!
Categoria “Giocatori”
HoF 2024
Riconoscimenti
You had an impressive class destined to leave a profound mark on the football pitch.
We knew your enormous talent, but we feared your recklessness.
Our coach, Cesare Prandelli, who had convinced us with his work and wanted to bring Fiorentina back to the places they deserved, vouched for you.
He was also your coach, the one with whom you had definitively imposed yourself.
We listened to him, but we Florentines are wary and were waiting for you at the field test.
Your class silenced us and it was immediately love.
Goals, assists, goals, assists, and more goals!
Your genius, accompanied by the impertinence that distinguishes you and the theatricality of your greetings, won us over.
Just as you bowed after each of your goals in the farewell at the Curva Fiesole, today we bow in farewell to ‘The Phenomenon’ who will always have a special place in the hearts of all of Florence!
We welcome Adrian MUTU’s entry into the Viola Hall of Fame, Players Category!
Category “Players”
HoF 2024
ORZAN Alberto
Il sogno di ogni direttore sportivo, di ogni allenatore: il giocatore totale, quello che ricopre ogni ruolo e lo fa sempre con umiltà, dedizione, coraggio e tanta affidabilità. Alberto Orzan è tutto questo ed è anche il Capitano nella storica vittoria del 1961 in Coppa delle Coppe, primo trofeo UEFA vinto da una squadra italiana. Oltre allo scudetto del 1955-56, alla Coppa Grasshoppers del 1957 e la Coppa Italia del 1961, Orzan colleziona tra il 1954 e il 1963, 246 presenze viola complessive e quattro presenze nella Nazionale maggiore.
Categoria “Giocatori”
HoF 2013
Riconoscimenti
The dream of every sporting director, of every coach: the total player, the one who covers every role and always does it with humility, dedication, courage and plenty of reliability. Alberto Orzan is all this and he is also the captain of the historic 1961 Cup Winners’ Cup victory, the first UEFA trophy to be won by an Italian team. In addition to the 1955-56 Scudetto, the 1957 Grasshoppers Cup and the 1961 Coppa Italia, Orzan ammassed between 1954 and 1963, 246 Fiorentina appearances overall, and four appearances in the senior national team.
Category “Players”
HoF 2013
PALOSCIA Raffaello
Sono passati oltre settant’anni dai suoi primi servizi sulla Fiorentina.
La scuola di giornalismo che frequentò aveva un nome stranissimo: la “Botteghina di via Ricasoli”, la redazione fiorentina del “Corriere dello Sport” in un sottosuolo davanti al teatro Niccolini.
Alla “Botteghina” Giordano Goggioli insegnava il mestiere e metteva a dura prova i giovani aspiranti.
Il giornalismo sportivo doveva, a quel tempo, raccontare le partite agli sportivi che non l’avevano vista.
La televisione muoveva i suoi primi passi, la radio raccontava solo parzialmente l’andamento delle gare.
Bisognava conoscere i calciatori, le loro movenze, le caratteristiche delle squadre che si affrontavano, il regolamento, per spiegare le decisioni arbitrali. E tutto con un unico supporto: il taccuino.
Nella stagione dello scudetto 1955-56 nacque la redazione sportiva de “La Nazione”, di cui fu un pilastro, prima di dirigerla per tanti anni.
La comunicazione è cambiata nel tempo, con le TV private prima e il web poi, ma lui ha continuato a raccontare con sapienza il calcio giocato, sempre con un grande amore per la Fiorentina.
Categoria “Ambasciatori”
HoF 2022
Riconoscimenti
More than seventy years have passed since his first reports on Fiorentina.
The school of journalism he attended had a very strange name: the ‘Botteghina di via Ricasoli’, the Florentine editorial office of the ‘Corriere dello Sport’ in a basement in front of the Niccolini theatre.
At the ‘Botteghina’ Giordano Goggioli taught the trade and put the young aspirants through their paces.
Sports journalism at that time had to tell the matches to sportsmen who had not seen them.
Television was taking its first steps, the radio was only partially reporting on the progress of competitions.
It was necessary to know the players, their movements, the characteristics of the teams facing each other, the rules, to explain the refereeing decisions. All with only one support: the notebook.
In the scudetto season of 1955-56, the sports editorial staff of ‘La Nazione’ was born, of which he was a pillar, before heading it for many years.
Communication has changed over time, first with private TV and then the web, but he has continued to tell the story of football played with wisdom, always with a great love for Fiorentina.
Category “Ambassadors”
HoF 2022
PANDOLFINI Egisto
Giocatore e dirigente, gioca nella Fiorentina tra il 1945 ed il 1952. Con i viola conquista la maglia azzurra ed è protagonista, il 18 maggio 1952, di Italia-Inghilterra, gara col maggior numero di spettatori mai giocata a Firenze: oltre 90.000 paganti! Con la Nazionale partecipa ai mondiali del 1950 in Brasile e del 1954 in Svizzera. È il calciatore italiano più anziano vivente ad aver segnato una rete in un campionato del mondo. Costruisce e dirige il settore giovanile che crea la Fiorentina ye-ye ed è alla base dei successi gigliati: quelli della prima squadra e quelli delle diverse rappresentative giovanili.
Categoria “Dirigenti”
HoF 2012
Riconoscimenti
Player and manager, he played for Fiorentina between 1945 and 1952. With the Viola he earned the Azzurri jersey and was the protagonist, on May 18, 1952, of Italy-England, a match with the largest number of spectators ever played in Florence: over 90,000 paying fans! With the national team he took part in the 1950 World Cup in Brazil and in Switzerland in 1954. He is the oldest living Italian footballer to have scored a goal in a World Cup. He built and directed the youth sector that created Fiorentina ye-ye and is at the basis of the Fiorentina successes: those of the first team and also those of the various youth teams.
Category “Executives”</b
HoF 2012
PARENTI Lando
Un pezzo di storia della Fiorentina. Socio della società viola, lavora, come volontario, per oltre 50 anni divenendo responsabile del materiale sportivo e dirigente. Segue ed accompagna, giorno dopo giorno, la crescita della Fiorentina partecipando con dedizione e passione a tutti i momenti della sua storia: dalla vittoria dello Scudetto 1955-56, festeggiata con il suo grande amico Julinho, a quella del 1968-69. Uomo serio e generoso, sempre preciso ed affidabile, ha dedicato alla Fiorentina tutta la sua vita e tutto il suo amore entusiasta, dando tutto se stesso e senza chiedere mai niente in cambio.
Categoria “Dirigenti”
HoF 2012
Riconoscimenti
A piece of Fiorentina history. A member of the club, he worked as a volunteer for over 50 years, becoming responsible for sports equipment and management. He follows and accompanies, day after day, the growth of Fiorentina by participating, with dedication and passion, in all the moments of its history: from the victory of the 1955-56 Scudetto, celebrated with his great friend Julinho, to that of 1968-69. A serious and generous man, always precise and reliable, he dedicated his whole life and all his enthusiastic love to Fiorentina, giving his all and never asking for anything in return.
Category “Executives”
HoF 2012
PARIGI Narciso
Cantante e attore fiorentino di fama internazionale, è uno dei massimi interpreti della canzone italiana degli anni Cinquanta e Sessanta. Grande sostenitore viola porta la Fiorentina in Italia e nel mondo arrangiando e cantando l’inno ufficiale del club viola. E’ consigliere nella Fiorentina presieduta da Nello Baglini, il suo nome e la sua voce rappresentano Firenze e la Fiorentina nel mondo.
Categoria “Ambasciatori”
HoF 2012
Riconoscimenti
Florentine singer and actor of international fame, he is one of the greatest interpreters of the Italian song of the fifties and sixties. A great supporter of the Viola brings Fiorentina to Italy and around the world by arranging and singing the official anthem of the viola club. He is a councilor in Fiorentina chaired by Nello Baglini, his name and his voice represent Florence and Fiorentina in the world.
Category “Ambassadors”
HoF 2012
PAROLI Ernesto
Responsabile dei materiali da gioco, ha consentito a tutti i campioni viola, dall’immediato dopoguerra in poi, di avere sempre divise e scarpe perfette. In tempi nei quali le calzature erano forgiate dalle mani di un artista, tre generazioni di campioni devono a lui la loro serenità nel calciare. Apparentemente burbero, ma con un cuore grande, Ernesto vanta il più lungo palmarés che si sia mai visto. Una presenza costante, nella storia della Fiorentina: 49 anni di amore, passione e dedizione.
Categoria “Dirigenti”
HoF 2013
Riconoscimenti
Responsible for match kits, he allowed all the Fiorentina champions, from the immediate post-war period onwards, to always have perfect team strips and boots. In times when footwear was forged by the hands of an artist, three generations of champions owe their serenity in kicking to him. Seemingly gruff, but with a big heart, Ernesto boasts the longest palmarés ever. A constant presence in the history of Fiorentina: 49 years of love, passion, and dedication.
Category “Executives”
HoF 2013
PESAOLA Bruno
Trae l’affettuoso soprannome di Petisso dalla sua minuta corporatura. Da allenatore la sua statura è risultata gigantesca ed ha ovunque raccolto simpatia ed apprezzamento per il suo calcio semplice ed efficace. A Firenze è giunto il suo più grande successo grazie ad uno scudetto conquistato con una squadra di ragazzini, ben impostata nelle precedenti stagioni da Beppe Chiappella, che con lui diventarono Campioni. Il tricolore del 1968-69 resta una delle più straordinarie imprese calcistiche mai realizzate. Il suo carattere da argentino di razza, con la battuta sempre pronta, lo ha fatto amare dai fiorentini fin dal primo istante.
Categoria “Allenatori”
HoF 2013
Riconoscimenti
He draws the affectionate nickname of Petisso from his petite build. As a coach, his stature was gigantic and he gathered sympathy and appreciation everywhere for his simple and effective football. His greatest success came in Florence thanks to a championship won with a team of kids, well set up in previous seasons by Beppe Chiappella, who with him became champions. The 1968-69 tricolor remains one of the most extraordinary football feats ever achieved. His character as a thoroughbred Argentine, always with a joke read, made Florentines love him from the very first moment.
Category “Coaches”
HoF 2013
PICCHI Sandro
Il ragazzo del Campo di Marte, cresciuto a pane e Fiorentina, è diventato una delle migliori penne prodotte dalla redazione sportiva de “La Nazione”.
Bravissimo nel raccontare gli avvenimenti sportivi e, soprattutto, il calcio e la squadra viola, le sue grandi passioni.
Un lavoro da lui considerato un grande privilegio e che ha onorato brillantemente.
Le sue cronache hanno scandito per decenni l’andamento della squadra gigliata, fuori e dentro il campo, spiegando ai lettori molto più di quello che accadeva.
Sandro ha sviluppato un suo stile, molto diretto, dove il giornalista fa parlare l’avvenimento sportivo, il suo svolgimento e le dinamiche che lo hanno caratterizzato.
Attraverso i suoi scritti era il calcio stesso a raccontarsi.
Un lavoro vissuto come un privilegio e svolto con una straordinaria bravura e semplicità.
Salutiamo l’ingresso nella Hall of Fame Viola, Categoria Ambasciatori, di Sandro PICCHI!
Categoria “Ambasciatori”
HoF 2024
Riconoscimenti
The boy from Campo di Marte, raised on bread and Fiorentina, has become one of the best pens produced by the sports editorial team of “La Nazione”.
Excellent at recounting sporting events and, above all, football and the Viola team, his great passions.
A job he considered a great privilege and which he honored brilliantly.
His chronicles have for decades marked the progress of the lily team, on and off the pitch, explaining to readers much more than what was happening.
Sandro has developed his own style, very direct, where the journalist lets the sporting event, its progress and the dynamics that characterized it, speak for themselves.
Through his writings, football itself told its story.
A job experienced as a privilege and carried out with extraordinary skill and simplicity.
We welcome Sandro PICCHI’s entry into the Viola Hall of Fame, Ambassadors Category!
Category “Ambassadors”
HoF 2024
PIN Celeste
Arrivò a Firenze all’inizio della stagione 1982-83. Si era messo in evidenza nell’Under 21 e in serie B.
La Fiorentina lo scelse per sostituire il più forte stopper italiano, Pietro Vierchowod, e per formare la coppia centrale della difesa con un mostro sacro del calcio mondiale: Daniel Passarella.
Non fu un inizio facile, la squadra pagò la conclusione del campionato precedente e le difficoltà dell’inserimento di Daniel, ma il giovane stopper seppe tener duro, riuscì a supplire alla mancanza d’esperienza con la concentrazione e l’applicazione.
Negli anni divenne un baluardo della difesa viola, uno che non mollava mai, che dava tutto in campo, fino all’ultima goccia di sudore.
Un marcatore vero, come quelli degli anni Settanta, ma anche un difensore moderno, intelligente nel leggere il gioco e i movimenti degli avversari.
Nove campionati con la maglia gigliata, la fascia da capitano conquistata con merito, ma anche la grande rabbia, mai sopita, per l’epilogo della finale di Coppa Uefa 1990.
In maglia viola dal 1982 al 1991 con 268 presenze e 6 reti.
Categoria “Giocatori”
HoF 2022
Riconoscimenti
He arrived in Florence at the beginning of the 1982-83 season. He had made his mark in the Under-21 and in Serie B.
Fiorentina chose him to replace the strongest Italian stopper, Pietro Vierchowod, and to form the central pair of the defence with a sacred monster of world football: Daniel Passarella.
It was not an easy start, the team paid for the end of the previous championship and the difficulties of Daniel’s inclusion, but the young stopper was able to make up for his lack of experience with concentration and application.
Over the years he became a bulwark of the purple defence, one who never gave up, who gave everything on the pitch, right down to the last drop of sweat.
A true goalscorer, like those of the 1970s, but also a modern defender, intelligent in reading the game and the movements of his adversaries.
Nine championships with the lily jersey, the captain’s armband conquered with merit, but also the great anger, never quenched, for the epilogue of the 1990 Uefa Cup final.
In the purple jersey from 1982 to 1991 with 268 appearances and 6 goals.
Category “Players”
HoF 2022
PIZZIOLO Mario
Centrocampista metodista, la Fiorentina lo acquista quando ha vent’anni, nel 1929, rimane in viola fino al 1936. Diventa subito titolare ed è l’elemento da cui parte il salto di qualità della squadra: dalla conquista della serie A alla lotta per lo scudetto 1934-35. Amatissimo dai tifosi, è la prima bandiera della formazione viola ed è il primo giocatore della Fiorentina a conquistare, nel 1934, il titolo di Campione del Mondo. Purtroppo, proprio durante il Campionato della Mondo, subisce un grave infortunio nella battaglia contro la Spagna (nei quarti di finale), che segna profondamente la sua carriera.
Categoria “Giocatori”
HoF 2012
Riconoscimenti
A midfielder, Fiorentina bought him when he was twenty, in 1929, he remained in purple until 1936. He immediately became a first team player and was the element from which the team’s leap in quality started: from the conquest of Serie A to the fight for the Scudetto of 1934-35. Loved by the fans, he is the first icon of the Viola team and he is the first Fiorentina player to win the title of World Champion in 1934. Unfortunately, during the World Cup, he suffers a serious injury in the battle against Spain (in the quarter-finals), which deeply marks his career.
Category “Players”
HoF 2012
PRINI Maurilio
Fu lui, unico Fiorentino di quella meravigliosa squadra, l’ultima, decisiva, invenzione tattica di Bernardini per vincere lo scudetto.
Non si trattava di una semplice ala tornante, con il numero 11 sulle spalle.
Un terzino – mediano – ala, lo definì l’allenatore.
L’uomo ovunque che legava la squadra, ne aumentava l’equilibrio in difesa e la forza offensiva, oltre a garantire qualche gol storico come quello a Belgrado, in semifinale di Coppa dei Campioni, che qualificò la Fiorentina alla finale di Madrid…
L’intelligenza tattica e due polmoni inesauribili, accompagnati da tanta serietà professionale ed abnegazione, lo hanno portato sulle grandi cime del calcio, Campione d’Italia in maglia viola e calciatore della Nazionale Italiana.
Salutiamo l’ingresso nella Hall of Fame Viola, Categoria Giocatori, di Maurilio PRINI!
Categoria “Giocatori”
HoF 2024
Riconoscimenti
It was he, the only Florentine of that wonderful team, who was Bernardini’s last, decisive tactical invention to win the scudetto.
It wasn’t just a simple winger, with the number 11 on his shoulders.
A full-back – midfielder – winger, the coach defined him.
The man everywhere who linked the team, increased its balance in defense and offensive strength, as well as guaranteeing some historic goals like the one in Belgrade, in the semi-final of the European Cup, which qualified Fiorentina for the final in Madrid…
Tactical intelligence and two inexhaustible lungs, accompanied by a lot of professional seriousness and self-sacrifice, took him to the great heights of football, champion of Italy in the purple shirt and player of the Italian national team.
We welcome Maurilio PRINI’s entry into the Viola Hall of Fame, Players Category!
Category “Players”
HoF 2024
RANIERI Claudio
Uomo cortese, elegante, dotato di grande cultura e con una proprietà di linguaggio rara nel mondo del calcio. Iniziò il suo cammino con la Fiorentina conquistando gli applausi della “Favorita”, mentre i vecchi viola faticavano ad accettare la B, lui entusiasmò subito con i giovani Banchelli e Robbiati.
Quattro anni con tante vittorie: il campionato di serie B; la Coppa Italia, la Supercoppa Italiana: dopo ventun’anni tornarono i titoli a Firenze. E quella notte incredibile del ritorno da Bergamo: quarantamila tifosi che aspettano la squadra e festeggiano fino alle 4 di mattina, inebriati dalla passione. Una Fiorentina organizzata, omogenea, con grandissimi giocatori: Batistuta, Rui Costa, Toldo e tanti altri impressi nella storia viola. Un ciclo importante finito nella semifinale di Coppa delle Coppe contro il Barcellona. Dopo Firenze ha girato l’Europa, protagonista nei più grandi palcoscenici del calcio, arrivando a segnare un’epoca con la vittoria del Leicester in Premier League e ottenendo il premio FIFA come miglior allenatore del 2016.
Sulla panchina viola dal 1993 al 1997 con 172 presenze.
Categoria “Allenatori”
HoF 2022
Riconoscimenti
A courteous, elegant man, gifted with great culture and with a property of language rare in the world of football. He began his journey with Fiorentina winning the applause of the ‘Favorita’, while the old Viola struggled to accept the B series, he immediately enthused with the young Banchelli and Robbiati.
Four years with many victories: the Serie B championship, the Coppa Italia, the Italian Super Cup: after twenty-one years the titles returned to Florence. During that incredible night of the return from Bergamo: forty thousand fans waiting for the team and celebrating until 4:00 in the morning, intoxicated by passion. An organised, homogenous Fiorentina, with great players: Batistuta, Rui Costa, Toldo and many others imprinted in violet history. An important cycle ended in the Cup Winners’ Cup semi-final against Barcelona. After Florence he travelled around Europe, starring in the biggest stages of football, coming to mark an epoch with the victory of Leicester in the Premier League and obtaining the FIFA award as best coach of 2016.
On the Viola bench from 1993 to 1997 with 172 appearances.
Category “Coaches”
HoF 2022
RAVEGGI Ennio
Le sue corse lungo il campo per soccorrere gli infortunati sono rimaste impresse negli occhi di tutti: con quella borsa enorme in mano percorreva il campo in direzione di chi ne avesse bisogno. E proprio una sua provvidenziale corsa precipitosa salvò la vita al più grande giocatore della Fiorentina, esanime a terra in attesa che qualcuno lo riportasse a respirare. E chi, se non Pallino poteva compiere il miracolo? Oltre ad Antognoni, gli sono debitori decine e decine di altri giocatori che, grazie alle sue cure e ai suoi massaggi, hanno superato dolori e disputato partite per le quali sono entrati nella storia.
Categoria “Dirigenti”
HoF 2016
Riconoscimenti
His runs along the pitch to treat the injured, remained etched in everyone’s eyes: with that huge bag in his hand he walked the field in the direction of those who needed it. And his providential rush saved the life of the greatest Fiorentina player, lifeless on the ground waiting for someone to bring him back to life. And who, if not Pallino, could perform the miracle? In addition to Antognoni, dozens and dozens of other players are indebted to him who, thanks to his treatments and massages, have overcome pain and played games for which they have made history.
Category “Executives”
HoF 2016
RIDOLFI Luigi Vay Da Verrazzano
Mecenate e imprenditore, è stato fondatore e primo presidente della Fiorentina. Si assunse tutti gli oneri di una gestione societaria resa drammatica dalla scarsità dei mezzi economici. Costruì lo stadio di Firenze ricorrendo alle proprie sostanze quando le pubbliche casse non poterono più sostenere il completamento dell’impianto. Fu anche Presidente della FIGC e della Federazione Italiana di Atletica Leggera ed ideò e costruì il Centro Tecnico Federale di Coverciano che è a lui dedicato come lo stadio di atletica a Campo di Marte.
Categoria “Dirigenti”
HoF 2012
Riconoscimenti
Patron and entrepreneur, he was the founder and first president of Fiorentina. He assumed all the burdens of corporate management made dramatic by the scarcity of economic means. He built the stadium in Florence using his own means when the public coffers could no longer support the completion of the arena. He was also President of the FIGC and of the Italian Athletics Federation and conceived and built the Federal Technical Center of Coverciano which is dedicated to him as is the athletics stadium in Campo di Marte.
Category “Executives”
HoF 2012
RIGANÒ Christian
É il bomber della rinascita. L’attaccante viola più prolifico e determinante dal 2002 al 2004, dalla Serie C2 alla Serie A. segna, positivamente, l’inizio dell’era Della Valle. Con suoi gol, nella Florentia Viola e poi, finalmente, nella Fiorentina, trascina il club al ritorno nella massima serie. Conquista, con la sua generosità ed umanità, il pubblico viola e si merita i cori di ringraziamento dei tifosi. Sceglie di vivere e lavorare a Firenze dove è stato accolto con gratitudine dalla tifoseria viola.
Categoria “Giocatori”
HoF 2012
Riconoscimenti
He is the bomber of the rebirth. The most prolific and decisive Viola striker from 2002 to 2004, from Serie C2 to Serie A. He marked the beginning of the Della Valle era positively. With his goals, in Florentia Viola and then, finally, in Fiorentina, he drags the club back to the top-flight. With his generosity and humanity, he conquers the Viola crowd and deserves the cheers of thanks from the fans. He chose to live and work in Florence where he was greeted with gratitude by the Fiorentina fans.
Category “Players”
HoF 2012
RIGHETTI Raffaele
Storico Segretario Generale della Fiorentina. Lavora per oltre 50 anni in società, dal 1961 al 2012, al servizio della causa viola attraversando tutte le epoche, le gioie e i dolori, con grande capacità organizzativa, vera umiltà e onestà cristallina. Una storia di lavoro e soprattutto di amore, con cui Raffaele ha accompagnato e spesso orientato le diverse proprietà che si sono succedute alla guida del club. Righetti rappresenta la storia viola ed è presidente Onorario del Museo Fiorentina.
Categoria “Dirigenti”
HoF 2012
Riconoscimenti
Historic Secretary General of Fiorentina. He worked for over 50 years at the club, from 1961 to 2012, at the service of the Viola cause through all the ages, the joys and sorrows, with great organizational capacity, true humility and crystal clear honesty. A story of work and above all of love, with which Raffaele accompanied and often guided the various properties that followed at the helm of the club. Righetti represents Viola history and is Honorary President of the Museo Fiorentina.
Category “Executives”
HoF 2012
ROBOTTI Enzo
Il suo esordio ufficiale con la maglia viola numero due avvenne in un pomeriggio di sole nella sua città natale contro la formazione chiamata “i grigi” e nella quale aveva militato in gioventù. Allo sfortunato debutto durante il quale la Fiorentina perse i due punti e lui ne guadagnò parecchi di sutura per una ferita alla testa, seguirono gli anni della Fiorentina più bella e vincente di tutti i tempi: Enzo ci fu sempre, per oltre duecentosettanta volte, molte da Capitano, sempre da leale scudiero della fascia difensiva sia destra che sinistra in coppia ora con Magnini, ora con Cervato e spesso con Castelletti.
Categoria “Giocatori”
HoF 2017
Riconoscimenti
His official debut with the number two Fiorentina jersey took place on a sunny afternoon in his hometown against the team called “the greys” and in which he had played in his youth. After the unfortunate debut during which Fiorentina lost the two points and he gained several stitches for a head injury, there followed the most enjoyable and victorious years for Fiorentina of all time: Enzo was always there, for over two hundred and seventy times, many as captain, always as a loyal squire of the backline, on both the right and left, in pairings with Magnini, with Cervato and often with Castelletti.
Category “Players”
HoF 2017
ROGGI Moreno
Solo gli incidenti fermarono la carriera di un difensore che, giovanissimo, aveva conquistato la Nazionale. La Fiorentina aveva trovato il leader attorno a cui costruire il blocco difensivo per dare nuovamente la caccia allo scudetto. La vittoria della Coppa Italia 1975 sembrava solo un ouverture. La sfortuna decise altrimenti. La sua intelligenza non è però mancata al mondo del calcio: divenuto dirigente fu il primo a sostenere gli ex calciatori finiti in difficoltà. Una pratica solidale che continua con l’esperienza delle Glorie Viola.
Categoria “Giocatori”
HoF 2019
Riconoscimenti
Only accidents stopped the career of a defender who, at a very young age, had earned a place in the national team. Fiorentina had found the leader around which to build the defensive block to go hunting for the Scudetto again. Winning the 1975 Coppa Italia seemed just an overture. Bad luck decided otherwise. His intelligence however, was not lacking in the world of football: when he became a manager he was the first to support former players who ended up in difficulty. A solidarity practice that continues with the experience of the Viola Glories.
Category “Players”
HoF 2019
ROGORA Bernardo
L’inizio fu difficile, duro, come è sempre stata la tua vita.
Arrivare in serie A a 27 anni non era un bel biglietto da visita.
La critica era diffidente, il pubblico esigente: la maglia numero 2, quella indossata da Magnini e Robotti era un’eredità pesante.
Non ti veniva perdonato nulla, ma, dopo pochi mesi eri riuscito a diventare il difensore a cui affidare l’attaccante più forte, il mastino che lasciava a secco i goleador avversari, tanto da meritarti il soprannome di “Roccia”.
In quei cinque anni la difesa della Fiorentina non poteva più fare a meno di te.
Memorabili i tuoi duelli contro Mazzola e il grande Gigi Riva, scontri duri e implacabili ma sempre leali.
Nell’anno più bello mancasti solo contro il Bologna, e fu l’unica sconfitta di una stagione meravigliosa conclusa con la vittoria del campionato.
Era il 18 maggio 1969, quando la Fiorentina scese in campo contro il Varese per l’ultima partita della stagione.
I viola erano già campioni d’Italia, e il boato d’accoglienza del pubblico provocò sensazioni indimenticabili, ripagandoti dei tanti sacrifici fatti per arrivare al vertice.
Salutiamo l’ingresso nella Hall of Fame Viola, Categoria Giocatori, di Bernardo ROGORA!
Categoria “Giocatori”
HoF 2024
Riconoscimenti
The beginning was difficult, hard, as your life has always been.
Arriving in Serie A at 27 years old was not a good business card.
The critics were wary, the public demanding: the number 2 shirt, the one worn by Magnini and Robotti, was a heavy legacy.
Nothing was forgiven you, but after a few months you managed to become the defender to whom the strongest attacker could be entrusted, the hound who left the opposing goalscorers dry, so much so that you earned the nickname “Rock”.
In those five years the Fiorentina defense could no longer do without you.
Your duels against Mazzola and the great Gigi Riva were memorable, tough and implacable but always fair clashes.
In the best year you only missed against Bologna, and it was the only defeat of a wonderful season which ended with the championship victory.
It was May 18, 1969, when Fiorentina took the field against Varese for the last match of the season.
The Viola were already Italian champions, and the roar of welcome from the public caused unforgettable sensations, repaying you for the many sacrifices made to get to the top.
We welcome Bernardo ROGORA’s entry into the Viola Hall of Fame, Players Category!
Category “Players”
HoF 2024
ROSETTA Francesco
Le formazioni imbattibili si costruiscono col tempo, partendo dalla difesa. Francesco Rosetta fu, insieme al compagno di reparto Sergio Cervato, il primo tassello del meraviglioso mosaico. La sua esperienza e la sua tecnica, abbinata alla tenacia di Giuseppe Chiappella, lo portarono a difendere sia il viola che l’azzurro in quegli anni nei quali i due colori praticamente coincidevano. Il Capitano dello scudetto, della Coppa Grasshoppers e di formidabili, indimenticabili annate.
Categoria “Giocatori”
HoF 2017
Riconoscimenti
The unbeatable formations are built over time, starting from the defense. Francesco Rosetta was, together with his companion Sergio Cervato, the first piece of the wonderful mosaic. His experience and technique, combined with the tenacity of Giuseppe Chiappella, led him to defend both purple and blue in those years in which the two colors practically coincided. The captain of the Scudetto, of the Grasshoppers Cup and of formidable, unforgettable vintages.
Category “Players”
HoF 2017
SARTI Giuliano
É il giovane portiere chiamato a sostituire Costagliola. In una sola stagione vincerà lo scetticismo di tanti e lo scudetto del 1955-56. Per nove anni difende la porta viola con autorevolezza. Portiere molto concreto e poco incline a gesti spettacolari, ridisegna il proprio ruolo in maniera dinamica, con un maggior coinvolgimento nel gioco della squadra, inusuale per quel tempo. Con 256 presenze in gare ufficiali con la maglia viola, uno Scudetto, una Coppa Italia, una Coppa Grasshoppers e una Coppa delle Coppe. Sarti segna la propria presenza alla Fiorentina dal 1954 al 1963 anche con una presenza nella Nazionale maggiore e due nella nazionale Militare.
Categoria “Giocatori”
HoF 2013
Riconoscimenti
He is the young goalkeeper called to replace Costagliola. In just one season he will overcome the skepticism of many and win the 1955-56 championship. For nine years he defends the Fiorentina goal with authority. A very concrete goalkeeper and little inclined to spectacular gestures, he redesigns his role in a dynamic way, with a greater involvement in the team game, unusual for that time. With 256 appearances in official matches with the purple jersey, a Scudetto, a Coppa Italia, a Grasshoppers Cup and a Cup-Winners’ Cup. Sarti marks his presence at Fiorentina from 1954 to 1963 also with an appearance in the senior national team and two in the military national team.
Category “Players”
HoF 2013
SEGATO Armando
La sua storia, ancora oggi, ci stringe il cuore. È la storia di un atleta nato per giocare a football e per farlo con quella raffinatezza che soltanto la classe innata può concedere. È la storia di uno Scudetto, di una Coppa Grasshoppers e di una squadra invincibile della quale è stato perno di un centrocampo formidabile. È la storia di 255 casacche viola e di 20 maglie azzurre onorate sempre da un cuore d’oro e da prestazioni eccellenti. È la storia di un padre di famiglia, una splendida famiglia, che troppo presto ha scelto il cielo come campo di gioco. È la storia di Armando Segato che oggi sentiamo tutti accanto a noi.
Categoria “Giocatori”
HoF 2014
Riconoscimenti
His story, even today, grieves our hearts. It is the story of an athlete born to play football and to do it with that refinement that only an innate class can grant. It is the story of a Scudetto, a Grasshoppers Cup and an invincible team of which he was the pivot of a formidable midfield. It is the story of 255 purple shirts and 20 blue shirts always honored by a heart of gold and excellent performance. It is the story of a father of a family, a splendid family, who too soon chose the sky as a playing field. It is the story of Armando Segato that we all feel next to us today.
Category “Players”
HoF 2014
STACCIONE Vittorio
Centrocampista di qualità proveniente dal Torino approda a Firenze nell’aprile del 1927. Gioca il primo incontro internazionale della storia della Fiorentina contro il Lugano ed è protagonista dei primi difficili anni della nuova società. Rimase a Firenze per quattro anni, dal 1927 al 1931, vivendo il passaggio dalla maglia biancorossa a quella viola e, dando un grande contributo alla prima storica promozione in serie A. Antifascista venne catturato dalle SS, come oppositore politico, il 12 marzo 1944 e fu deportato nel campo di concentramento di Mauthausen dove morì dopo un anno di feroce prigionia.
Categoria “Giocatori”
HoF 2012
Riconoscimenti
A quality midfielder from Torino, he arrived in Florence in April 1927. He played the first international match in the history of Fiorentina against Lugano and was the protagonist of the first difficult years of the new club. He remained in Florence for four years, from 1927 to 1931, experiencing the transition from the red and white shirt to the purple one and, making a great contribution to the first historic promotion to Serie A. An Antifascist, he was captured by the SS, as a political opponent, on 12 March 1944 and he was deported to the Mauthausen concentration camp where he died after a year of ferocious imprisonment.
Category “Players”</b
HoF 2012
SUPERCHI Franco
Dopo Griffanti, Costagliola, Sarti e Albertosi, si aggiunge ai grandi portieri che hanno difeso la porta viola per un decennio alla volta. Dopo tanti grandi, un altro grande. Giunto a Firenze appena ventunenne nel 1965, impara il meglio dall’allora numero uno gigliato e della Nazionale. Una stretta di mano per complimentarsi da parte di Pelé al termine di un’amichevole nel 1967, ne sancisce il definitivo avvio della scalata: al primo anno da titolare conquista lo scudetto con i suoi compagni della Fiorentina ye-ye e per 318 gare ufficiali le sue parate a mani nude fanno parte della storia viola.
Categoria “Giocatori”
HoF 2016
Riconoscimenti
After Griffanti, Costagliola, Sarti and Albertosi, he joins the great goalkeepers who have defended the Fiorentina goal for a decade at a time. After so many greats, yet another one. Arriving in Florence at just twenty-one in 1965, he learned the best from the then number one for the club and national team. A handshake of congratulations from Pelé at the end of a friendly match in 1967 marks the definitive start of the climb: in the first year as first choice he wins the Scudetto with his fellow Fiorentina ye-ye and for 318 official matches, his bare handed saves are part of the club story.
Category “Players”
HoF 2016
TANTURLI Valter
Presidente dell’Associazione Tifosi Fiorentini e storico presidente del Viola Club Vieusseux, è stato sempre il capo tifoso dei gruppi della Curva Ferrovia, ma anche un punto di riferimento insostituibile per tutta la tifoseria. La sua grande capacità organizzativa, unita alla sua lucida visione del ruolo di tifoso, ha risolto le situazioni più delicate, garantendo alla squadra sempre il sostegno del dodicesimo uomo. E’ stato un maestro di valori ed amore per la bandiera e per questo resterà per tutti un faro di passione per la maglia viola e per la fiorentinità.
Categoria “Ambasciatori”
HoF 2013
Riconoscimenti
President of the Fiorentina Supporters Association and historic president of the Viola Club Vieusseux, he has always been the head fan of the Curva Ferrovia groups, but also an irreplaceable point of reference for all fans. His great organizational capacity, combined with his lucid vision of the role of a fan, helped solve the most delicate situations, always guaranteeing the team the support of the twelfth man. He was a master of values and love for the flag and for this reason he will remain for everyone a beacon of passion for the purple jersey and for the Florentine spirit.
Category “Ambassadors”
HoF 2013
TOLDO Francesco
Osservando i nostri figli prima di ogni partitella con la loro squadretta di paese, ritroviamo i tratti felici e desiderosi soltanto di giocare che aveva Francesco Toldo quando, giovane portiere, arrivò a vestire la nostra maglia. Dai suoi guanti siamo ripartiti dopo un’amara retrocessione e, con i suoi guanti abbiamo alzato due Coppe Italia, una Supercoppa Italiana e sfiorato una finale di Coppa delle Coppe. In otto anni oltre 330 presenze, migliaia di tuffi e, mentre para tre rigori nella stessa partita con la maglia della Nazionale, l’orgoglio di poter dire: “È Francesco; è Viola!”.
Categoria “Giocatori”
HoF 2015
Riconoscimenti
By observing our children before each match with their local team, we find the happy traits and the eagerness just to play that Francesco Toldo had when, as a young goalkeeper, he came to wear our jersey. From his gloves we started again after a bitter relegation and, with his gloves, we raised two Coppa Italias, an Italian Supercoppa and almost reached a Cup-Winners’ Cup final. In eight years, over 330 appearances, thousands of dives and, while saving three penalties in the same match with the national team, the pride of being able to say: “It’s Francesco; he’s Viola! ”.
Category “Players”
HoF 2015
TONI Luca
“Tanto c’è Luca…”. Questo era il comune pensiero di noi tifosi quando vedevamo la nostra Fiorentina subire una rete di svantaggio. E lui non tradiva mai le attese: che fosse di testa, di destro o in acrobazia, riusciva sempre a mandare il pallone oltre la linea avversaria. I tabellini di quelle stagioni sono riempiti soltanto dal suo cognome. Dopo anni di scorpacciate di reti con il grande Christian Riganò, abbiamo fatto indigestione con quelli di un altro grande bomber, della Fiorentina e della Nazionale campione del mondo 2006.
Categoria “Giocatori”
HoF 2016
Riconoscimenti
“There’s always Luca …”. This was the common thought of us fans when we saw our Fiorentina go behind. And he never betrayed expectations: whether it was with his head, his right foot, or acrobatics, he always managed to send the ball over the opponent’s line. The results of those seasons are filled only by his surname. After years of feasting on goals with the great Christian Riganò, we had indigestion with those of another great bomber, of Fiorentina, and also of the 2006 world champion national team.
Category “Players”
HoF 2016
UGOLINI Ugolino
Un animo nobile e generoso. Una vita di passione disinteressata per la Fiorentina: il Presidente di una mitica Coppa Italia e di una Coppa di Lega italo-inglese ha gravitato per quasi due decenni nel mondo viola caricandosi sulle spalle gli oneri di una guida complicata, ma affascinante. Non esitò a buttare sul tavolo verde una pesante fiche per far godere a noi tifosi della bellezza di un asso come Giancarlo Antognoni. Senza quell’atto di coraggio e lungimiranza oggi la nostra Storia sarebbe stata priva del nostro eterno numero 10.
Categoria “Dirigenti”
HoF 2015
Riconoscimenti
A noble and generous soul. A life of selfless passion for Fiorentina: President of a legendary Coppa Italia and an Anglo Italian Cup, has been at the centre of the Viola world for almost two decades, carrying the burdens of a complicated but fascinating leadership on his shoulders. He did not hesitate to throw a big player on the pitch, to allow us fans enjoy the beauty of an ace like Giancarlo Antognoni. Without that act of courage and foresight, our history today would have been devoid of our eternal number 10.
Category “Executives”
HoF 2015
VALCAREGGI Ferruccio
Impreziosisce la schiera dei giocatori-allenatori viola. Straordinaria mezzala viola a cavallo del conflitto bellico con 126 presenze, 27 reti e una Coppa Italia nel 1940, la prima in assoluto per la Fiorentina, è allenatore in due riprese dal 1962 al 1963 e a cavallo tra il 1984 e il 1985. La conduzione da Commissario Tecnico della Nazionale con la splendida affermazione nel campionato europeo del 1968 e la finale mondiale del 1970 arricchiscono l’orgoglio per averlo avuto sulla panchina viola.
Categoria “Giocatori”
HoF 2013
Riconoscimenti
Enhances the ranks of Fiorentina player-coaches. Extraordinary Viola winger at the turn of the war with 126 appearances, 27 goals and a Coppa Italia in 1940, the first ever for Fiorentina, he was coach on two occasions, from 1962 to 1963, and between 1984 and 1985. Technical Commissioner of the National team with the splendid success in the 1968 European championship and the 1970 World Cup final enrich the pride for having had him on the Fiorentina bench.
Category “Players”
HoF 2013
VALENTI Paolo
Spenta la radiolina a transistor, fedele amica delle domeniche di campionato, si attendeva con impazienza che apparisse il suo volto sorridente e rassicurante. Paolo Valenti introduceva brevemente la giornata e passava la linea a inviati locali, ognuno con l’accento regionale della squadra che commentavano. Noi non lo sapevamo, ma Paolo soffriva: non poteva urlare liberamente la propria gioia in caso di vittoria della sua Fiorentina o masticare amaro in caso di sconfitta. La sua impeccabile professionalità e il suo equilibrio in qualsiasi situazione, ci hanno impedito di poterlo abbracciare come uno dei nostri: lo facciamo adesso, caro Paolo.
Categoria “Ambasciatori”
HoF 2015
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Having turned off the transistor radio, a faithful friend of league Sundays, we waited impatiently for his smiling and reassuring face to appear. Paolo Valenti briefly introduced the day and passed the line to local reporters, each with the regional accent of the team they commented on. We did not know it, but Paolo suffered: he could not freely shout his joy in case of his Fiorentina’s victory or his bitterness in case of defeat. His impeccable professionalism and his balance in any situation prevented us from being able to embrace him as one of ours: we do it now, dear Paolo.
Category “Ambassadors”
HoF 2015
VIRGILI Giuseppe
Per vincere ci vogliono i bomber e il ragazzone friulano, arrivato in viola nel 1954-55 lo è. Con Virgili al centro dell’attacco la Fiorentina vince il suo primo titolo nazionale. Nelle sue stagioni giocate con la maglia gigliata strapazza le difese avversarie con ostinata costanza: 64 reti in 115 presenze ufficiali ne fanno uno degli attaccanti viola più prolifici di tutti i tempi. Con 7 presenze e 2 reti, al Brasile, nella Nazionale maggiore contribuisce a colorare di viola l’azzurro degli anni Cinquanta.
Categoria “Giocatori”
HoF 2013
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To win you need the bombers and the big boy from Friuli, who arrived to Fiorentina in 1954-55 is just that. With Virgili at the center of the attack, Fiorentina won their first national title. In his seasons played with the Viola jersey, he destroys the opponent’s defenses with obstinate consistency: 64 goals in 115 official appearances make him one of the most prolific Fiorentina strikers of all time. With seven appearances and two goals, in Brazil, in the senior national team he helps to color the Azzurri of the fifties with purple.
Category “Players”
HoF 2013
VOLK Rodolfo
Arrivata in ritardo, la neonata Fiorentina aveva bisogno di farsi largo nel football nazionale. Nel 1926, sfruttando il fatto che fosse militare a Firenze, scelse un centravanti che anche al giorno d’oggi potrebbe fare la fortuna di ogni formazione. Alto, forte, sorridente nelle foto e spietato in area di rigore. Il primo cannoniere nella storia della Fiorentina sembrava arrivare dalle più specializzate armate di granatieri e, come loro, lanciava le sue bombe, ma con i piedi.
Categoria “Giocatori”
HoF 2015
Riconoscimenti
Arriving late, the newborn Fiorentina needed to make her way into national football. In 1926, taking advantage of the fact that he was in the military in Florence, it chose a center forward who could make the fortune of any team even today. Tall, strong, smiling in the photos and merciless in the penalty area. The first gunner in the history of Fiorentina seemed to come from the most specialized armies of grenadiers and, like them, he threw his bombs, but with his feet.
Category “Players”
HoF 2015
ZEFFIRELLI Franco
Lo straordinario talento artistico del maestro ha creato capolavori assoluti per il grande e piccolo schermo e firmato le opere più importanti sui palcoscenici dei teatri più importanti in tutto il mondo. Per Firenze però è e sarà sempre soprattutto il più importante tra i tifosi viola, il primo sostenitore della nostra amata Fiorentina, un ambasciatore universale di Firenze e della sua squadra di calcio.
Categoria “Ambasciatori”
HoF 2013
Riconoscimenti
The extraordinary artistic talent of the master has created absolute masterpieces for the big and small screen and marked the most important works on the stages of the most important theaters around the world. For Florence, however, he is and will always be, above all the most important among the Viola fans, the first supporter of our beloved Fiorentina, a universal ambassador of Florence and his football team.
Category “Ambassadors”
HoF 2013
