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Spezia is playing her first Serie A match today, despite winning the title in 1944!
Cebzia won the Italian league title in 1944 both officially and informally.
Due to the Second World War and due to the suspension of local competitions, the fascist regime decided at the time to establish the League Championship and award a title to the winning team, but the Italian Republic disallowed this competition in August of the same year.
In 2002, the Italian Federation decided to honor the team’s title, so the team is not considered the winner of the competition title, like Sampdoria, Hellas Verona and Cagliari.
The club in 2019 sought to officially discuss awarding the title, but its attempts were not completed.
What is the history of Cebzia’s honorary title?
In 1943, World War II reached its fifth year, and the spine of the Allies led by Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini began to break after the Battle of Stalingrad in Russia.
Allied forces reached Italy and moved overland to invade the country, stripping Mussolini of his powers at the time and leaving him in custody, but then the Germans rescued him.
Italy was divided and Mussolini was appointed leader of the Italian Social Republic in the north of the country.
Ituri Rossi, the commissioner of the new Italian Olympic Committee, announced in light of the division of the country into two parts that there will be no first-class Italian league, but a tournament between northern clubs called Campionato Alta Italia, or the northern championship of Italy.
The tournament was held in 3 stages and the clubs were divided by regions, all of them in the group stage system, classifying the first stage from the first and second ranking to the second stage, consisting of 4 groups, each group includes 4 teams.
Then the final third stage will take place between the first and second group champion and the winner between the third and fourth group champion.
The club crashed due to the devastation that occurred in the Italian city of Liguria and the club, and the arrest of Coriolano Perioli, president of Cebzia, and sending him to a concentration camp in Germany.
Many of the main players who led the team to sixth place in the Italian second division in the 1942-43 season were outside the “Gothic Line”, the last German defensive line to defend the Allied forces, and were unable to return to the team. .
Cimrulli, the only remaining member of the team, decided to contact Luigi Gandini, Spezia’s fire marshal, to form a team capable of competing in the competition and offered players the opportunity to play and live on the condition that it be canceled. his military service, and benefited from player registration suspension, which meant the player played where he wanted.
The team included players from Genoa, Naples and Livorno, who were registered as firefighters in uniform, and Ottavio Barberi, the player for Genoa and the Italian national team, was appointed as the team’s technical director, to show a team.42nd La Spezia Fire Department“.
The team was in Group D with Parma, Corradini Suzara, Orlando Peceto and Videntina.
From the first game Barberry played with a 3-2-3-2 plan, which in England was known as the WM plan, and after that the idea of the Italian catenaccio began, the main difference was that the free player helps to build the attack from behind and then retreat to monitor the opponent’s main forward.
The team won 5 games, drew 3 and reached the second stage, the “semi-final”, with Corradini Suzara and Carpe Modena in one group, they won 5 games, lost one and qualified for the play-off against Bologna.
In the first leg, Bologna dominated the match, and in the 79th minute Cebzia advanced with a goal, and after an altercation between players and fans, the match was suspended and Cebzia won.
The return match was moved to Carpi due to the bombing of the city of Cebzia and due to protests from the president of Bologna, the match was canceled and Cebzia qualified for the final stage with Venice and Turin.
The first match of the final stage witnessed a 1-1 draw between Cebzia and Venice, and in the second match it was the clash of “Grande Torino”, who scored 19 draws, drew 4 and lost only one during that edition.
Turin coach Vitoro Pozzo reportedly entered the Cebzia dressing room before kick-off and congratulated them on reaching the final and promised to lower the score.
Cebzia achieved the surprise and beat Turin 2-1 with a double by Sergio Angelini, and in a match in which Mario Tommasio was the champion, who in his double match beat Valentino Mazzola, the star of Italian football at that time .
Turin beat Venice 5-2 in the last match, with Cebzia winning the title, but they had already left Milan to spend time with their families.
A title that became an honor for the club that did not actually participate in the competition, so the club honors the memory of the firefighters with a tricolor insignia permanently affixed to the players’ jerseys.
Sources: – genteditaliaworldfootballindex
