Brera Calcio

Brera Calcio

Founded	2000
Ground	Arena Civica, Milan, Italy
Capacity	10,000
Chairman	Alessandro Aleotti
Manager	Andrea Mazza
League	Prima Categoria

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

Colours

Its colours are green and black.

History

Brera Football Club was founded in 2000 by the young publisher and journalist Alessandro Aleotti. The first manager appointed was former Inter and Sampdoria goalkeeper Walter Zenga.^[3][4] The team played its matches in the newly reopened Arena Civica,^[5] but was relegated from Serie D. In the season 2003/2004, through a partnership with the FIGC and Carcere di Opera (one of the biggest prisons in Milan and in Italy), Brera founded FreeOpera Brera, a team composed of detainees.^[6] Allowed to take part to 2003/2004 Terza Categoria, the team won the championship and was promoted to Seconda Categoria. The initiative obtained a lot of praise and RAI talked about it in a "Sfide" episode.^[7] In the season 2006/2007 Brera, under the leading of coach Noureddine Zekri, obtained its first promotion, beating Bresso in the playoff and gaining the right to take part to Promozione the following season. In the season 2011/2012, after temporarily ceasing the first team's activity, Brera took part to the Torneo di Viareggio under the name of Brera Emergence Gabon, a team composed of young Gabonian footballers. In the season 2014/2015 the team, with Andrea Mazza appointed as coach, won its first championship, getting promoted from Seconda Categoria to Prima Categoria. In January 2016, in collaboration with the Serbian Roma actress and activist Dijana Pavlovic, Brera started managing the Romani People football team.^[8][9][10]

Notable managers

• Walter Zenga
• Noureddine Zekri
• Marco Nicoletti
• Marco Nichetti
• Andrea Mazza

Current squad

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

No. Position Player 1 GK Joao Chacra 2 DF Ebrima Ceesay 3 DF Alfonso Aguilar 4 MF Ese Igho 5 MF Jorge Mascote 6 MF Luca Cardani 7 MF Wericon Silvestre 8 MF Karim Diarra 9 FW Sergio D'autilia 10 MF Jose Luque 11 FW Davide Rossignoli

No. Position Player 12 GK Ibrahim Abdourahman 13 DF Jose Cabanilla 14 MF Moussa Ndiaye 15 DF Diego Swidan 16 DF Mattia Basilici 17 FW Yassine Charifi 18 FW Yetoe Akakpo 19 FW Luca Di Fatta 20 MF Gianfranco De Vito 21 MF Biniam Dawit 22 GK Stefano Esposito

Current coaching, technical and administrative staff

Position[11]
President	Alessandro Aleotti
Vice President	Leonardo Aleotti
Vice President	Giuliano Milesi
Head coach	Andrea Mazza
Team manager	Giuseppe Pardeo
Press Officer	Christopher Nasso

External links

• http://www.breracalcio.it/2012/

References

1. http://www.calcioefinanza.it/2015/09/24/terzo-tempo-e-socialee-la-realta-del-brera-calcio/
2. http://www.breracalcio.it/2012/storia
3. http://www.goalcity.com/?area=seriea&sezione=news_esplosa&id_news=3442&pag=98&titolo=Zenga+torna+a+Milano%3A+allenereagrave%3B+il+Brera
4. http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2000/11/12/espulso-battuto-esordio-nero-di-mister.html
5. http://archiviostorico.gazzetta.it/2000/settembre/10/Cibi_esotici_bambini_calcio_Brera_ga_0_0009103236.shtml
6. http://milano.corriere.it/speciali/2003/09_Settembre/22/opera.shtml
7. http://archiviostorico.gazzetta.it/2004/gennaio/30/Sfide_adotta_carcere_Opera_ga_10_040130996.shtml
8. http://www.conifa.org/en/members/romani-people/
9. http://www.24orenews.it/eventi/sport/15308-romani-people-football-team-ai-mondiali-conifa
10. http://fusion.net/story/267569/conifa-world-cup-2016-abkhazia/
11. http://www.breracalcio.it/2012/la-squadra