Origins of football being played by representatives of the Province of Catania can be traced back to English cargo ships, thanks to the workers who brought the game to Sicily.
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16 Facts About Calcio Catania
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Calcio Catania played in the league for three seasons during this period before ultimately being relegated.
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Calcio Catania lacked goalscorers at the time, as they only scored 18 goals altogether in 30 games.
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Decline of Catania began most evidently after its last relegation to Serie B The team was no longer able to reach the top division of Italian football, and instead continued to decline, remaining in Serie C1 for the latter part of the 1980s.
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Calcio Catania was thus included in the Sicilian Eccellenza, but in the meantime another Sicilian football team, Atletico Leonzio from Lentini, had been relocated in the city and renamed Atletico Calcio Catania.
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In 2003, Calcio Catania was at the centre of a controversy that led to the enlargement of Serie B from 20 to 24 teams, known as Caso Calcio Catania.
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Poor results in the league table were however coupled with impressive performance in the Coppa Italia, where Calcio Catania reached a historical place in the semi-finals, then lost to Roma.
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Calcio Catania was replaced by Gianluca Atzori, a relative coaching neophyte with just one year's experience at Lega Pro Prima Divisione team Ravenna.
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Calcio Catania signed a contract until June 2011 with the Elefanti.
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In January 2011, Calcio Catania decided to remove Giampaolo from his position due to poor results and replace him with former Argentine star Diego Simeone, who had no previous experience at Serie A level but managed to guide the Sicilians to safety before to part company by the end of the season, after only four months in charge of the team.
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Calcio Catania promised to invest ingent economical resources with the main goal to bring back Catania in Serie A, showing interest in acquiring the Torre Del Grifo training center, built during the Pulvirenti era and considered one of the best in Italy.
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Calcio Catania have had several presidents over the course of their history, some of which have been the owners of the club, others have been honorary presidents, here is a list of them from 1946 onwards.
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Calcio Catania have had many managers and trainers throughout the history of a club, in some seasons more than one manager was in charge.
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Calcio Catania first made their debut at the Stadio Angelo Massimino, then called the Stadio Cibali, in 1937.
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Calcio Catania carries out its training sessions at the Torre del Grifo Village sports center, considered among the best in Europe, inaugurated on May 18,2011, and located in the adjacent municipality of Mascalucia.
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