Hellas Verona

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Rivals	Chievo Verona, Vicenza, Brescia, Venezia, Napoli
Club Profile	Club Website Twitter: @HellasVeronaFC Facebook: @HellasVeronaFC1903 Address: Stadio Marcantonio Bentegodi, Piazzale Olimpia, 37138 Verona VR, Italy Nickname: I Mastini, Gli Scaligeri
Stadium	Until 1963 Hellas Verona played their home games in the “Old Bentegodi”, a building placed in the centre of the city that could host only 5000 supporters. It was eventually demolished in the 1980s. From then on they moved to the Marcantonio Bentegodi Stadium, which had no covering but had the athletics track and a capacity of 40,000 supporters. For this reason, it was also known as the “40,000 Stadium”. During the 1980s, when Hellas Verona were among the top Italian clubs, the stadium was deemed to be below par. This in combination with Italy hosting the 1990 World Cup meant that there was justification for redevelopment. Amongst other things an additional tier was added, a roof was installed, safety spaces were added, as were numbered seats. Ironically the capacity barely changed. In 2009 a new covering was installed: it was entirely made with solar panels, thus providing the Stadium with one of the biggest photovoltaic systems in a sports area in the whole of Europe.
Recent History	Hellas Verona were at their best in the 1980s. 2 defeats in the Coppa Italia final came before they won the Scudetto. It was 1984-1985 and coach Osvaldo Bagnoli was the architect of their successes. After relegation to Serie B in 1989-1990, Verona met with some dark decades. Failures on the pitch were compounded by bankruptcies. Even when achieving promotion to Serie A, they never managed to remain in the top flight for more than 3 seasons. In 2006-2007 more doom and gloom came with relegation to Serie C1 some 64 years after their last appearance in the third level of Italian football. As a Serie B club they were acquired by Maurizio Setti, a clothing entrepreneur from Carpi in 2011-2012. Since then, Hellas have made it to Serie A several times, never going higher than the 9th place. Promotion came in the 2018-2019 season via the Serie B playoffs.
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2023/2024

Hellas Verona

In

Yayah Kallon (att)(Genoa, loan made permanent); Ondrej Duda (mid)(FC Koln, loan made permanent); Jayden Braaf (att)(Borussia Dortmund, loan made permanent); Koray Günter (def)(Sampdoria, end of loan); Martin Hongla (mid)(Valladolid, end of loan); Bruno Amione (def)(Sampdoria, end of loan); Mateusz Praszelik (mid)(Cosenza, end of loan); Kevin Rüegg (def)(Young Boys Bern, end of loan); Jordi Mboula (att)(free agent); Riccardo Saponara (mid)(free agent);

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Ivan Ilic (mid)(Torino, loan made permanent); Giovanni Simeone (att)(Napoli, loan made permanent); Matteo Cancellieri (att)(Lazio, loan made permanent); Gianluca Caprari (att)(Monza, loan made permanent); Ibrahim Sulemana (sp)(mid)(Cagliari); Panagiotis Retsos (def)(Olympiacos, loan made permanent); Ivor Pandur (gk)(Fortuna Sittard, loan made permanent); Mert Cetin (def)(MKE Ankaragucu, on loan); Miguel Veloso (sp)(mid)(released); Oliver Abildgaard (sp)(mid)(Rubin Kazan, end of loan); Fabio Depaoli (sp)(def)(Sampdoria, end of loan); Adolfo Gaich (sp)(att)(CSKA Moscow, end of loan); Deyovaisio Zeefuik (def)(Hertha BSC, end of loan); Simone Verdi (sp)(mid)(Torino, end of loan); Philip Yeboah (sp)(att)(released); Adrien Tamèze (r)(mid)(Torino);

Since their return to the Serie A in 2019/2020, Hellas Verona President Setti adopted a self-destructive attitude regularly selling their best players and providing the managers with always weaker squads. At the end of November 2022 Hellas already seemed doomed for relegation. Coach Gabriele Cioffi had been sacked early on while Salvatore Bocchetti had lost all the games since taking charge. Things changed radically at the start of 2023: Bocchetti was joined at the helm by Mauro Zaffaroni and they managed to bring the team out of quicksand. Having won only 1 out of the last 7, they eventually needed to beat Spezia in the playoffs to avoid the fall. This season should not be too different from the past one for Hellas, although they will have a different man at the helm: after doing well at Lecce, Marco Baroni will replace Bocchetti and Zaffaroni. The transfer campaign was not a very active one yet as they saw some departures in midfield with starting Tameze and back-ups Veloso and Sulemana all gone for pastures new. Solid Hongla returned from loan while confirmed Duda, who well impressed before injuring his knee, is expected to recover sometime. Since they held one of the worst attacks of the past campaign, with only 31 goals scored, Hellas were expected to strengthen their attack but they only hired wingers so far in Mboula, Saponara and re-confirmed Kallon and Braaf. Considering that Henry is still recovering from injury and that Gaich returned to CSKA Moscow, they are in desperate need of an alternative to Djuric, hardly a prolific striker with 1 goal every 338 minutes. Other than that, Amione returning from loan at Sampdoria, could become a protagonist at the back, especially if Hien is sold.

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