FC Guardia explained

Clubname:FC Guardia
Fullname:A.S.D Guardia Svizzera Pontificia
Founded:1924
Capacity:500
Chairman:Christoph Graf
Manager:Fabio Bortoluzzi, Antonio Maria
Season:2021/22
Position:8th

FC Guardia is a Vaticanese football club that currently plays in the Vatican City Championship, the top level of football in Vatican City. The current club president is Christoph Graf and the current managers are Fabio Bortoluzzi and Antonio Maria.[1] The team, like all Vatican clubs, plays its matches at the Campo Cardinale Francis Joseph Spellman in Rome, Italy.[2] Despite being founded in 1924, the team has never won the league championship.[3] [4] [5] The squad consists of members of the Pontifical Swiss Guard.[6]

In October 2017 the team was a guest of German football club FC Bayern Munich, touring their facilities and meeting with its Italian head coach Carlo Ancelotti.[7]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: FC Guardia. Sport in Vaticano. 9 May 2017. Italian.
  2. Web site: Storia. Sport in Vaticano. 9 May 2017. Italian. 25 December 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20221225113639/https://www.sportinvaticano.com/storia. dead.
  3. Web site: Mattei. Giampala. Lo scudetto vaticano? Ai Gendarmi E per gli Svizzeri "zero tituli". L'Osservatore Romano. 25 July 2017. Italian.
  4. Web site: Rota. Davide. Vatican City-List of Champions. RSSSF. 10 May 2017.
  5. Web site: Albo d'Oro. Sport in Vaticano. 10 May 2017. Italian.
  6. Web site: Vita Nella Guardia. guardiasvizzera.va. 10 May 2017. Italian.
  7. Web site: Vatikan Fussballer besuchen Carlo Ancelotti . FC Bayern Munich . 1 July 2019 . German.

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